Link Bait

Link baiting (or linkbaiting) is the latest buzz word in the SEO world and has come to be the preferred way to natural link building.

It means to create something that naturally attract backlinks for your web page by getting people to talk about it, discussing it on forums, blogging about i, posting it on del.icio.us/Furl/Digg/Shoutwire and linking to it from their sites. It also attracts a lot of visitors.

Here is an excellent article: The Art of Linkbaiting and Linkbaiting for Fun & Profit.

Here is a list of ideas:

  • Make a valuable resource (lists, special reports, history of, how to, etc.)
  • Interview (e-mail/phone) prominent people and publish it.
  • Build a useful tool
  • Write an interesting article
  • Run a newsworthy ‘event’ such as a contest
  • Test something new that has not been done before
  • Be the first in doing something on the internet
  • Write something controversial
  • Be the first to write the latest news in your niche
  • Be the first to expose a scammer
  • Disagree with an authority
  • Write some funny humor
  • Make an interesting picture
  • Be the first to research and document something
  • Make a theme, plugin or piece of software
  • Make a tool that others can put on their sites but that links to you
  • Make a joke about a known person
  • Make a resource that is just in time for a major event
  • Write an outrageous theory and back it up with logics
  • Write useful comments on something that is happening
  • Give something valuable for free
  • Coin a new acronym in your niche and get people to talk about it
  • Become an expert in your niche and write valuable information

Useful resources on Link Baiting (many of the tips above taken from here):

Link Bait Services:

Please comment if you have more info on link bait.

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  1. Jade "jamire" B. Cimafranca said on June 14, 2006 at 4:11 am

    i need more practice in linkbaiting. :)

  2. Jack said on June 17, 2006 at 8:16 am

    Awesome advice, very good info on how to get natural links. This is something I am working on, but need to explore some of the other opportunities like contest, having software on the site, or some other resource.
    All the best,
    Jack

  3. mixb, электромонтаж, кабель, светильники said on June 26, 2006 at 4:35 pm

    Very good list of ideas! But many of this ideas very hard to make

  4. Derek said on July 1, 2006 at 6:55 pm

    Make a joke about a known person. This method I like best… But seriously I wish I could write some good articles, have a lot of interesting things to say, but unfortunately my English is not perfect…

  5. waste management said on July 17, 2006 at 7:41 pm

    Good list of ideas - just need to put them into practice now.
    best wishes

  6. SEO hosting said on July 21, 2006 at 6:40 am

    Very Nice list several I haven’t thought of thanks.
    Someone posted - “Very good list of ideas! But many of this ideas very hard to make”
    I disagree, it might be hard to do them all at once and maintain them, but one at a time real easy. write articles, and example write an article about this article. It’s real simple to do, just use your imagination.

  7. Send customized ecards said on July 28, 2006 at 9:26 pm

    Very interesting info. But people should see your site before linking it. How to suggest a site for auditory?
    (sorry for poor english)

  8. Mad Blogger said on July 30, 2006 at 3:46 am

    Great article, i was doing this naturally and didnt even realize it. Besides the socialization sites that you listed
    i get great deal of traffic from reddit.

    Good Luck

  9. Foot Health Matters said on August 21, 2006 at 3:13 pm

    Way to go, Link baiting is what we at foot health needs…
    Point taken and will start doing something about it.

  10. Medical Site said on August 21, 2006 at 3:14 pm

    Good list of ideas - just need to put them into practice now.
    Best wishes
    From Medical Site Admin

  11. Medicine Related said on August 21, 2006 at 3:15 pm

    Heaheha..Make a joke about a known person. This method I like best… But seriously I wish I could write some good articles, have a lot of interesting things to say.

    Thank you for the wonderful idea.

  12. Teakita said on September 10, 2006 at 11:57 am

    I am a beginner in SEO. Link biat is mystical and here is one example:try to search”Teak outdoor furniture” in the google, you will see on top is discount furniture which gets quite lot of links from a visitor counter which is used by some small websites and not ever related to this field. He just beats all his competitors. This is amazing and I wonder if search engines really do care about the relevacy of one side links!!!!!

  13. wimax said on September 13, 2006 at 4:00 pm

    Teakita: I think site can be banned for such tricks in SEs.

  14. Jim Westergren said on September 13, 2006 at 4:38 pm

    I think site can be banned for such tricks in SEs.

    Well, unfortunately not.
    Links are amazing in Google, just search for:

    free stats
    web tracker
    hit counter
    web stats
    invisible stats

    And you see the same site holding the number 1 across the board. This was done by the power of links, same as discount-teak-furniture.com but on a much higher level.

  15. Loraine said on September 27, 2006 at 11:11 am

    just now viewed this aritcle on link bait. Nice one. but if u do a link bait for a site, then the theme of the site may be disturbed even though u are doing well with your link bait. As i am new to this seo need more briefing on this.

  16. Redding Chevy said on October 7, 2006 at 11:32 pm

    Great article. Easy to read very difficult to do well!

    Coming up with something new, usefull and unique is one of the most difficult parts of being a webmaster. IMHO

  17. Sarah Kerar said on October 8, 2006 at 5:27 pm

    Does it count as linkbaiting when a site like http://pathofchoices.com links to itself within itself?

  18. Jim Westergren said on October 8, 2006 at 7:27 pm

    Does it count as linkbaiting when a site like http://pathofchoices.com links to itself within itself?

    No, see again the definition of link bait.

  19. Headset Gadgets said on October 11, 2006 at 2:29 am

    Link baiting is not really considered a new technology or a new way to approach a large pool of visitors, it has been done before. On a previous edition of our website, we have posted columns of “Latest News” featuring reviews of cellular gadgets that only a limited number of websites would review or offering features on your website such as product review. Information within product reviews is absorbed by search engine bots as useful data and therefore your probability of being labeled as a content rich website would be high despite the fact that you are in the business of selling goods, not information.

  20. jozzua said on October 30, 2006 at 10:11 am

    My link bait. Make a funny comic strip.

  21. ramakrishna p said on November 13, 2006 at 8:06 am

    Really useful information.

  22. Super 8mm Telecine said on November 22, 2006 at 6:40 am

    My Super 8mm telecine site has no outgoing links so I can’t swap links and try to get link backs whereever I can including bookmarking which seems to help a lot. I thought that social bookmarking abd tag+ping are useful.
    You can bookmark my site too if you find it interesting.
    cheers
    Jon

  23. Ray said on November 23, 2006 at 7:00 pm

    Thanks

    This a good article an makes explicit something that we all know implicitly in a fuzzy kind of way.

    Helps keep at the forefront of my mind when writing.

    It encourages to post some of my more controversial theories/ideas.

  24. Craig (Akaneon Admin) said on November 29, 2006 at 1:03 pm

    Thanks! I used this info on my own website, http://www.akaneon.com, and now the traffic won’t stop coming! Thanks, Jim!

  25. Software Downloads said on December 11, 2006 at 5:23 pm

    excellent article …
    I should implement it to my website.

  26. thatSEOguy said on December 13, 2006 at 11:49 am

    There was a link exchange service called “linkfart” a while back. The site is no longer around. This was obviously an attempt at linkbaiting, but I guess the stench in the site’s name was too much for people to bear.

  27. ravi said on December 23, 2006 at 4:25 pm

    You have got good ideas i like that one the article submission and some tool or software for link development

  28. raj said on January 7, 2007 at 4:31 pm

    this is a nice post on link m certainly going to create a tool for link bait hakns

  29. funny picstures said on January 7, 2007 at 4:33 pm

    thanks for a lovely post

  30. paper shredders said on January 12, 2007 at 6:48 am

    I like it.It would be more inspiring to me if i could see any of pictures about it.

  31. sexy and funny said on January 15, 2007 at 6:45 pm

    this is the best information i got about the link building echnique through inka baiting

  32. Leo said on January 16, 2007 at 9:08 am

    I dont know but why i don find such informative and profitable blogs so often,I suspect blogging world is becoming so small that we cant find such lucrative blogs like this one.

  33. Finance Guide 101 said on January 19, 2007 at 2:38 pm

    Thanks for those ultimate tips. These tips are going to be very helpful for webmasters.cheers…….

  34. Sam said on January 25, 2007 at 10:32 pm

    Nice links and explanation, I was looking for a good explanation for this kind of SEO method of some time as most websites and people discuss it quite vaguely. Nice ideas BTW.

  35. Anand said on February 7, 2007 at 3:37 pm

    I pretty much guess that this article in itself is a link bait ;-)

    Thanks for the info

  36. Cage said on February 11, 2007 at 6:31 pm

    Very nice article. These are some very helpful tips.

  37. Hollywood Beach Suites said on March 4, 2007 at 3:48 pm

    Nice techniques of link baitd thank you

  38. Mike Levin of HitTail said on March 19, 2007 at 1:28 am

    Link baiting would appear to be a perfect counter-point to longtailing. With longtailing, you would choose topics where you could pick up easy and highly qualified search traffic merely by virtue of the title. Then, if the contents of the page satisfied the link baiting criteria, you have a double whammy effect working in your favor. The original hit could occur as a result of a happenstance Google hit, and a link garnered, and an accelerator effect could kick in.

  39. Hardono Arifanto said on March 27, 2007 at 6:42 pm

    Great ideas … I create one and announce it here.

  40. Paul said on March 28, 2007 at 6:44 am

    The internet is so vast that writing even the smallest article in my field is very difficult as all areas seem to be covered one way or another.

  41. Viral Internet Marketing said on April 8, 2007 at 8:34 pm

    I think it is not so much what you do, but rather how much of what you do that is important. Volume seems to count a lot. I have read about Google leaning to themes and LSI, but I stll feel that a large number of back links will still do the trick.

  42. Puneet Thakkar said on April 9, 2007 at 12:59 pm

    Hi Jim…

    In here everytime i get to hear many new things on time and in a proper manner…Thanks for such more support…

    I too thinking on how to proceed with Link Baiting …

  43. Money Making Ideas said on April 22, 2007 at 10:41 pm

    Great ideas for getting free natural links. You’re link-baiting us. Thanks, Jim.

  44. Arnab India said on April 30, 2007 at 8:58 am

    Hi Jim,

    This Link Baiting concept is still new to me. Hope I can learn a bit about it and use it for a better purpose for my site.

  45. Oudam said on May 9, 2007 at 3:59 am

    I suppose “link baiting” is just another name for the old “content is king” mantra.

  46. Larry Smith said on May 14, 2007 at 7:20 pm

    Thanks, a lot of useful info.

  47. Emmie said on May 31, 2007 at 12:58 pm

    That’s really cool. I think I should start doing this stuff on my blog too!

  48. Łukasz Jędrzejczyk said on June 6, 2007 at 2:30 pm

    Great article.
    I was looking for tool that will increase my popularity, and after I read this and similiar articles I must say that that only way to be featured on the top of search results is “be unique” :)
    Thanks :)

  49. Living on The Net said on June 10, 2007 at 6:20 am

    nice idea. very enlighting

  50. Business said on July 2, 2007 at 3:05 am

    I think Link Baiting is one of the hardest things to do! It requires you to have something that people perceive as valuable and its popular enough that they wont just rip you off and steal your text or images or whatever it may be .. great post though, between this article and the link building service .. I have new material to work on!

  51. save youtube video said on July 8, 2007 at 5:56 am

    thanks for giving so many ideas for link baiting. Have you try it all ? which is your prefer one ?

  52. Asbestos Lawyer said on July 17, 2007 at 11:23 pm

    Finally a good list on linkbait. I cam here fro your link building post which I am also learning a lot from . Thanks I will write a snippet for you from one of my blogs.

  53. schournaille said on July 18, 2007 at 1:59 pm

    Thx for the nice list. As Im trying to receive Links more “naturally” these tipps are very nice to reed and gave me an impression of what to do.

  54. кабель, лебедка, волс, вок, лэп,вл said on July 23, 2007 at 8:40 pm

    A very good page, full of facts!

  55. musical fountain design said on August 1, 2007 at 8:11 pm

    create a video on youtube is also a good tactic of linkbait.

  56. Free PS3 Guru said on August 10, 2007 at 10:06 pm

    I’ve definitely seen an increase in traffic since writing a tool that helped people - it’s an online page generator (in php) that they can then go and use in forum signatures. Because posting a link to “their” page helps THEM, they want to do it. These pages are hosted on my site, though, and exist in a template that has links to other pages on my site too, so it benefits them AND me. I plan to write more tools like this to get people linking.

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    Well I wana must say that. This blog is very imformative for me and I m very glad full for this blog owner. And I must say this to blog owner u make more this type blogs and we get more information abt this. Thanks

  58. Mobby said on August 16, 2007 at 7:42 pm

    It’s a new idea to get some natural links, site helps to download the games

  59. said on August 23, 2007 at 5:07 pm

    I am fond of your web site! Good luck, good work!

  60. nissa said on August 28, 2007 at 11:12 pm

    Many tips i got here. Need practice now about link bait

  61. jack black said on September 5, 2007 at 2:49 pm

    Thanks for all post

  62. Anabolic steroids said on September 5, 2007 at 2:52 pm

    Good list of ideas. Thanks again.

  63. Arthur mcbeth said on September 15, 2007 at 7:51 am

    This is probably reverse link baiting, you could call this fishing

  64. Kenneth Bittner said on September 27, 2007 at 4:18 pm

    Wonderful advice, I will implement this right away, thanks!

  65. mathew said on October 3, 2007 at 9:55 am

    Blogs are mean to give you somethingworthy and practical,wholesomewords,beneficial ideas and successfull tricks and tactics,i think i have with quite much things while reading this one.

  66. cazu babu said on October 4, 2007 at 4:05 am

    This ideea is preaty cool, i am going to use it to promote my site http://www.zaams.com too.

    Thanks a lot

  67. yarisma said on October 4, 2007 at 8:13 pm

    This is probably reverse link baiting, you could call this fishing

  68. Curry recipes said on October 5, 2007 at 12:35 am

    thanks for your “recipes” :)

  69. google reklam said on October 13, 2007 at 1:18 am

    good luck

  70. Murattx Werbung Bremen said on October 25, 2007 at 3:29 pm

    Great Idea! ;)

  71. Jucick said on October 26, 2007 at 1:12 pm

    Jim, your list of activities for linkbaiting is great and exhaustive.
    But I’d like to ask what if the site is static and its content is rearly updated for there’s nothing to update in fact? Thnx.

  72. oyun said on October 28, 2007 at 8:20 pm

    Jim, your list of activities for linkbaiting is great and exhaustive.
    But Id like to ask what if the site is static and its content is rearly updated for theres nothing to update in fact? Thnx.

  73. araba said on October 28, 2007 at 8:21 pm

    good luck
    Wonderful advice, I will implement this right away, thanks!

  74. yarisma said on October 28, 2007 at 8:21 pm

    Id like to ask what if the site is static and its content is rearly updated

  75. indir said on October 28, 2007 at 8:22 pm

    i think i have with quite much things while reading this one.

  76. carpet said on October 28, 2007 at 8:23 pm

    Ive definitely seen an increase in traffic since writing a tool that helped people - its an online page generator (in php) that they can then go and use in forum signatures. Because posting a link to their page helps THEM, they want to do it. These pages are hosted on my site, though, and exist in a template that has links to other pages on my site too, so it benefits them AND me. I plan to write more tools like this to get people linking.

  77. lauren monsey said on November 4, 2007 at 7:54 pm

    What a terrific article! This has helped very much! From someone who HATES asking questions!

  78. mark said on November 15, 2007 at 4:34 am

    One of the best forms is “Make a tool that others can put on their sites but that links to you”. Can definitely go viral, like YouTube videos.

  79. s_jenkins said on November 15, 2007 at 8:19 am

    Great article! I have a couple of questions though: a) does Google have existing penalties for the term ‘linkbaiting’ and b) what do you think of the term ‘linkbaiting’?

  80. komal said on December 7, 2007 at 9:04 am

    Link baiting is a new and progressive method of increasing link popularity.The above given points are very useful but it involves a lot of hard work,writing high quality content and proper popluarity.palcomonline is a web design,development and hosting company based in noida,we provide expert seo services.

  81. palcom said on December 7, 2007 at 9:08 am

    hi there,
    can anybody tell me how can a site having less content comes on top.I have visited many sites and hv found that lesser the content the more is it ranking.Where as it is said content is the king

    Thansk
    palcomonline.com

  82. Jucick said on December 10, 2007 at 12:37 pm

    Dear Oyun and Yarisma! Copying my words and using them without even quotation just to get the link from jimwestergren.com is nonsense! Not a single idea of your own, ha? Are you aware at all of what link baiting is???

  83. Amit said on December 14, 2007 at 12:35 pm

    Best Article! As i myself is new in the field of seo and updating my knowledge base.

    Link bait is also on of the seo’s work nice one hope works for me also.

    Thaks for sharing the information.

  84. Chat said on December 19, 2007 at 9:32 pm

    Dear chat and haber! Copying my words and using them without even quotation just to get the link from jimwestergren.com is nonsense! Not a single idea of your own, ha? Are you aware at all of what link baiting is?

  85. Chat said on December 19, 2007 at 9:33 pm

    Link bait is also on of the seos work nice one hope works for me also.

  86. Haber said on December 19, 2007 at 9:36 pm

    One of the best forms is Make a tool that others can put on their sites but that links to you. Can definitely go viral, like superalem haberler

  87. Manish Chauhan said on January 4, 2008 at 12:00 pm

    Nice to read a very new concept of link baiting from youI would like to see some more posts from your end for better link baiting understanding..
    Thanks again for this gr8 post

  88. iPod Touch Guide said on January 7, 2008 at 7:08 am

    Well thank you for giving me a new way to promote my blogs and website.

  89. crank said on February 12, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    this is a great art for link bait..that really helps a site to have much quality backlinks..link baiting will be more effective if you’ll just gonna be creative..great post..

  90. Jean-Rey Caldeira said on February 18, 2008 at 11:31 pm

    funny.. I’ve only tried a few of those. I should try more!

  91. muhabbet said on February 25, 2008 at 12:31 pm

    Link bait is also on of the seos work nice one hope works for me also.

  92. femi said on February 26, 2008 at 3:54 am

    Thanks for the article. clear and stright forward.

  93. Shannon said on March 5, 2008 at 1:59 pm

    Those list of how link bait acquired was really helpful, I already did some of those and it did great on the site I’m working with. I enjoyed reading your article.. very informative. Thanks

  94. binodkumarshaw said on March 14, 2008 at 12:29 pm

    This is a valuable information, i follow this information for my web site promotion to target ranking

  95. Tag said on March 23, 2008 at 12:14 pm

    this is very useful thanks!

  96. Doug Quance said on March 24, 2008 at 9:07 pm

    Very interesting and informative. Thank you.

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  30. […] For these websites, the key to effective viral marketing not just lies in creating attractive on-site linkbait, but rather the ability to create linkbaits which grow into powerful sources of referral traffic through social websites. […]

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  31. […] Solid link bait is giving the blogged article a relevant keyword driven anchor text. Creating non-relevant anchor text is still link bait but it doesn’t pass through much relevant link love to the linked site. […]

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  43. […] How to Get Strong Referral Traffic from Social Websites Not all websites are made equal. The value of a website and its ability to attract natural votes from social websites depends a great deal on its overall niche and content. For example, if your corporate website focuses on topics such as real estate, auto insurance or financial products like credit cards, it might be difficult in making an article on it popular in social websites like Digg, Reddit or Netscape. The general lack of popular interest in the content of your website is usually the main problem. You can create an interesting press release and seed it with friendly votes but it remains unlikely that it will be very well-received. Why? Because you are dealing with a crowd that favors attractive non-commercial content that usually revolves around popular or niche sub-cultures. For these websites, the key to effective viral marketing not just lies in creating attractive on-site linkbait, but rather the ability to create linkbaits which grow into powerful sources of referral traffic through social websites. The Viral Solution to Unattractive Websites: Gain Visitor Traffic by Association The exact location of your linkbait article is of great importance. Determining the right placement is especially vital when your website is in an industry that generally does not appeal to social website audiences. There is just one motto to follow: If you cant get social traffic visitors to your desired website, get them through other websites or webpages. There are generally two ways of doing this: Place your linkbait on a sub-domain or customized webpage that is aesthetically different from your main website. Leave sidebar navigation and a clickable header/logo that points back to your sites homepage/sell-page and youll be likely to get some traffic from visitors attracted by the linkbait. […]

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  44. […] Other options to build traffic and build your brand: Press Releases (PRWeb) Article Submission (Ezine Articles) Buying blog posts (Payperpost) Link Bait Social Sites (Digg) […]

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  50. […] Link Baiting This is the single most important method. It has mainly to do with good content that gets links the natural way. To keep things simple in this guide I have decided that everything that makes people link to you because of the content on the page/site falls under this category of link baiting. You need to read this post I wrote on link baiting. Comments: Pure white hat, recommended but sadly not very effective if not something real major. […]

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  51. […] For these websites, the key to effective viral marketing not just lies in creating attractive on-site linkbait, but rather the ability to create linkbaits which grow into powerful sources of referral traffic through social websites. […]

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  52. […] These are just a few, most used, link baiting hooks. You can see a list with popular hooks at Jim Westerngren’s blog. […]

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  54. […] There are, however, some more generic tips out there to help you on your way. They aren’t fully fledged ideas, and will require considerable imagination on your part if they are to be applied to your site, but they are tried and tested methods of generating interest. The list below was found at Jim Westergren’s blog, and is about as concise and useful as I’ve found. […]

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  55. […] 7. Link Bait - Basic tips on how to create linkbait. […]

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  56. […] Say what you will about link bait — this list of freeware and open source Web development applications from Andrew Sellick is a great resource if you’re in the business (or even hobby) of building Web sites and don’t have the budget for Adobe’s creative suite.  While some resources are likely to be familiar to many, like Eclipse or the IE Toolbar, if you work in the creation or maintenance of online content, it’s a sure bet you’ll discover something new and worthwhile in Andrew’s list. […]

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  57. […] 8. Trading Words For Traffic - Writing a response to someone to gain links. 7. Link Bait - Basic tips on how to create linkbait. […]

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  58. […] I’ve been reading up recently on link bait, I read this article by Jim Westergren, it’s a great article as Jim takes his own advice and creates something useful that people will link too in the form of an article explaining link bait and creating a list of useful link bait options. Link baiting is a fun, creative and low cost way of marketing a product or service. Say for example the new social networking website Sceneparty, say i create a post showing some of the new and exclusive features the website will include and submit it to delicious, redit, digg, stumbleupon and ask my friends to blog about it and use a trackback, it will create buzz, a knock on effect where bloggers will see that other people are talking about the subject and blog about it too again linking back to the original post. This spreads the word and gets you many free backlinks, this is online viral marketing at its best. Link bait is a very useful form of SEO that brings relevant back links from social bookmarking websites and blogs which write relevant posts. With SEO its best to get relevant websites linking to you, relevant content which uses your keywords in the post. This can be done with link baiting if you mention your keywords over and over again in your submissions to social bookmarking websites. […]

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  61. […] Jim Westergren, another fine link builder and his guide Jim Westergren on Link Bait, is also a must to read. […]

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  65. […] The art of writing the kind of content that get natural links is called link baiting. See my article on that with a list of ideas here. […]

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