Link Bait

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

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…

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.

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

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

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!!!!!

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

My link bait. Make a funny comic strip.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Very nice article. These are some very helpful tips.

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.

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.

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 …

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.

Thanks, a lot of useful info.

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

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!

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.

A very good page, full of facts!

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.

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

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

Good list of ideas. Thanks again.

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

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

Thanks a lot

thanks for your “recipes”

Great Idea!

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

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

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

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’?

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

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?

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

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

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

Thanks for the article. clear and stright forward.

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

Very interesting and informative. Thank you.

Thanks for the article. Very interesting and informative.
Thank you.

Great Article…I found it interesting ….Time to put the concept into practice

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

These are great ideas. Thanks for the very informative article.

Great list! I have been trying to get this whole link baiting thing going and coming up with ideas when you are just getting started is tough (at least for me!).

Running a contest is only useful if you already have enough traffic, otherwise it is a waste.

Really I like It So Much!

Thats completely awesome post.
Thanks.

This is an excellent way to get good PR fast. Thanks.

Very informative and helpful.Thanks a lot for sharing it. I find it very useful coz I myself is looking for alternative ways to promote my site. I am hoping that by following your tips i will make good at it. More power to you.

Great article . I was searching it thanks …………

Thuis is very simple and effective technique for your site. Interesting

Great review of what link bait really is. There are tons of methods of doing this. Finding the right one for you can really help your online traffic. Take satellite tv for pc for example. Word of mouth can really make sales. check out http://www.satellitetvforpc.ws to see what im talking about

This ideas are very usefull and the article contains full list of them for those, who cannot get them by their oun head.
Unfortunatlly, this ways takes effect mostly in popular subjects. Then you deal with something very unpopular, rare and highly tailored, I guess, there is nothing to do to get volume of backlinks.

Excellent, common sense advice. I try to follow it at every turn….I suggest others follow suit…

Interesting read – i’d not heard of this before will have to give it a trial!

I think it’s quite clear that that the term ‘link baiting’ is a catchy new term for something that has been around for ages, ie; creating content on your site that is worthy of note and encourages and inspires discussion on other sites.

It’s just been given a name now!

Yes, this is one of the best ways to build links. The ideas are really good, thanks for the post

Thanks for the list, based on this i have done a little research and discovered another (and found in you’re comments) another resource on this subject. The post from CornwallSEO (http://www.cornwallseo.com/search/2007/02/09/the-enormous-linkbait-list/). The ideas on this page and that one have got me thinking in new directions.

Tar!

still learn about that… thanks for the info..

Quality Inbound links are most important for getting good page rank in Google. This (Link Baiting) is also great way of link building and post is so informative and useful.

Thanks for sharing this cute post.

All the best…

Safdar

great ideas.
i am going to put this into practice with my filmmaking / video advertising website.

# Interview (e-mail/phone) prominent people and publish it.

Danke, das ist meine Anregung!

Great article – we are getting a few videos make and publishing them to a number of diffferent sites to try and push browsers to our site – just trying to market our site virally… hope it works

Interesting post, this will help me a lot.

Thanks man…

HI
I would like to thank you so much because this really great.
and this info this beat for my work thank you again.

Hi
As an SEO Expert myself i know how important link bite is.
Your post will be like gold for SEO new comers.

Excellent tips, I’m going to put them into practice.

Thanks for sharing this great article about link bait. We specialise in SEO / Web design and this will help us a lot.:)

I am going to incorporate to a team of journalists who are able to create quality articles. The selection of the same is not easy.

Very nice post

Link baiting is very powerful. I found writing lists to be the best way to get backlinks. Of course, there are other techniques such as the ones you mentioned which are pretty good

All in all, I love link baiting. And I believe that every serious IMer should use this powerful technique!

Cheers
Johnny

Does it still work like it used to though?

wow! great post about link baiting I’ve found so far thank you for this info, I’m new to this blogging thing so this article really helped. tnx alot.

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

very thanks for sharing good inforamtion about link bait.it nice one.

great will give this a go… i take it the more link bases artciles you produce the better your rating will be?

Hello everyone,

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I am ready for comments

Really useful information. Then how could you get so many comments and visitors.

thanks to share useful information. it really helps me

great articles, inspiring. .

some great ideas here for link baiting. I still think the best is staying with solid content on a normal basis, but that is the hard part. Off to content building I go.

Good strategy , but i think this what we already do as a part of our social networking , only the term has been specified.

Good ideas

Thanx

I was searching in google to find out about linkbait and your article has helped me. Thank you for your tips.

Thanks for the term. I never knew link baiting. Now if i only knew a famous person to interview!

This is very useful thanks, will start linkbaiting now.

Very Interesting Info. Nice One. I came to know about new topic about link baiting.:)

Really this was very nice post, before i reading this post i don’t know about link baiting, But now i have some idea,

Nice article of link building or backlinking. one question, these strategy works best in all parts of globe? I am looking forward to a natural link exchange programme with industry niche people and not just for the sake of baiting..

wow, its grate link building techniques you are explaining here.
I am not using that kind of techniques never before. Right now I am going to utilize that kind of link building techniques to my website.
tell me something more about this.
Thanks guys its grate SEO techniques.

Hi
Great post
I was looking for information, which can enhance my web page back links
and also page rank and now i think, I found something interesting.
thanks

The above list of link baiting sound like a good idea, however I would have to say that such a task would require lots of hours and money, I would like to see a comparison chart between pay per click advertisers cost vs. organic seo link building, what is the ROI?

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

Nice Tips,
This tips are very important for every link builder. Above tips are explained in very simple and clear language. I think this will benefit many link builder. Natural link building is very important.

I don’t think the article warrant anywhere near these 300+ comments. It aint stupid stuff, but hardly ground breaking…

I like you article buy i ask one qustion about Blog Commenting.When i post comments.Why User not Click on Keywords.My Comments is very attractive then users not click on it.WHY?

Very helpful advice – Will make website promotion much easier

Question regarding link baiting. Videos like “Charlie Bit Me” and other huge youtube phenomenons have amassed huge amounts of traffic.

By the literal definition of link baiting, these videos pass the test.

But what I’m not understanding is Where are they ultimately pointing the traffic? And who is ultimately benefitting from these millions and millions of views the videos are getting?

Thanks! Look forward to hearing your thoughts.

hey good job man keep continue with this kind or work thnks

Thanks Jim. I am pretty new to all this and I’m so grateful to folks like you.

Jim, I know this post was written quite a while ago, but it holds as true today as when it was first posted. I didn’t realize I was link baiting, but it sure works. Definitely no need for black hat techniques. Mahalo.

Great tips and method

This is very useful information thanks for sharing.

linkbait works well if you have good content. i find jokes and cartoons work quite well. difficult to implement though if you are running a corporate site for example

Hi,

thanks a lot for this post, liked it a lot =)

I think this site is really going to work well!

Hey Jim, a few years ago I read an article on yours called ‘Link Bait’ and I was pleased to see the article still live to say a Big ‘Thank you’ it has worked for my business and still is for the county search terms. Regards Jas

Of course google has a search engine share of about 80%. But I still think it depends on us, how we use this tool

Nice post, I do article submissions but I don’t know to do link baiting. Could any one help me in steps?

Jim Westergren,

Link bait is any content or feature, within a website, designed

specifically to gain attention or encourage others to link to the website.

Let me Congratulate you. Your pots was done in 2007 and still people like to give their Feedback. GR8 work.

Plz. post some good contents in future as well.

It’s laborious to find knowledgeable people on this subject, however you sound like you already know what you’re speaking about! Thanks

Nice tips. Thanks for the information as I am still trying to generate more traffic.

Good post, thanks for the list, I’m linking back to it from one of my other websites.

Hi, Jim. thank you so much for your tips about linkbaiting. This is my first time to hear about this topic and i would try to make linkbaiting sooner for my site that were on sandbox right now. I really thanks Jim, and i hope it would make better result for site in SE

I was looking at a YouTube video this morning that had received alot of attention (13,000,000 views), and noted that there were a substantial number of people who had created short, stupid clones or imitations with the same title and I’m wondering whether they do this in the hopes of generating tag along views and receiving YouTube ad revenues or whether there’s a way to get these youtube views to translate into backlinks. I’ve got to look further at it.

Thanks for tips Jim…u are such great dude…….very helpful to generate traffic

Jim,

These are all great ideas, but I have a question for you. Do you know of any affordable (and creative) people and/or companies that these type of projects can be outsourced to? I’d love to get some things like this going.

- Justin

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

linkbait is a creativ idea! A new era internal internet is born…;)
I like it.

Thank you for the amazing list. We have been doing most of them, but there are some new ones that our company will use soon. thanks again.

Thanks for this great list! Many ideas, but one is enough I probably found sg good for me. It rally depends on your niche though, whether it’s going to work or not..

good list idea about how to get natural link. I still try to write new ideas. Good luck.

Great article thanks!Been working on putting this into practice.

Thanks, its useful information for SEO people

Thanks to Jim Westergren for sharing this nice information about Link Bait. This information is very useful for SEO professional when they will make strategy for any website..Keep it up.

Thanks for the great info! i started implementing some of this a year ago and it works great. dont expect the first one to work but if you keep at it some of them will start working and its totally worth the effort

i found your write up very interesting
and all the things i already done as a experiment with my face book account to reach popularity.
thanking your for sharing your precious experience and thoughts.

Hi, Jim.

I would like to write an article about your free website and link it back to you or your website.

Let me know.

Thanks,

The Prince

very good list of ideas! But many of this ideas not possible for static site.

intersting
very helpfull

Hello, just wanted to tell you, I liked this blog post. It was inspiring.
Keep on posting!

thanks for the article i am learning about links etc,So anything that helps myself out is appreciated,again thanks for posting.

I read this post completely regarding the comparison of most recent and
earlier technologies, it’s remarkable article.

excellent publish, very informative. I wonder why the other experts of this sector don’t realize this. You must proceed your writing. I am sure, you have a huge readers’ base already!