14th May 2008

Get natural links

It’s not easy sometimes to get other bloggers to link to a new blog. linkbaiting is one way to established blogs. Link Bait means putting something so good on your website that people would love to link.
This is the preferred way to natural link building. The idea behind linkbait is to create content that attracts links. It’s a kind of sensationalism that naturally attract backlinks for your web page by getting people to talk about it.

According to the Search Engine Journal, the top Link Baiting techniques are “News, Contrary, Attack, Resource and Humour”.

Have a look at list of ideas:

  • Write an interesting article
  • List of blogs, latest news in your niche
  • Write some funny humor, practical and useful related to your niche
  • A how to, reports, history etc. related to your niche
  • Run some kind of useful informative contest
  • Write something controversial
  • Be the only one in your niche to find something to not like about a story, or like about a story/product.
  • On the same theme, post “Why is WRONG about…”
  • Make a tool that contain link to your site but people can put that tool on their site also. It will be counted as backlink to your site.
  • Write useful comments on something that is happening
  • Insert a new acronym in your niche and get people to talk about it
  • Try something new and entertaining every time
  • Expose a scammer
  • Interview Widely known people and publish it
  • Make some eye catching pictures related to resource
  • Publish some major event related to resource
  • Become an expert in your niche and try to write valuable information every time to to catch people’s attention

Sometimes even a little bit of work can generate a reason for people to link to you.

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