What is Link baiting? Implementing Link Baiting Successfully

Link baiting or call it viral marketing is the new buzzword for entire blogosphere. Being spellbinding in nature, it hooks a blogger to place link to your site.

Definition of Link Baiting

The whole process of inviting a blogger to your site and compelling him to place a worthwhile link actually revolves around certain important techniques a few of which are mentioned below:

Advanced Practices and Tips for Link Baiting

• Building your Own community: Sense of belonging can arouse interest for bloggers to give a link to your site. Create a platform where people can share, stare and of course criticize. An interesting topic/thread with a good number of suggestion and comments is likely to invite more links. An insight into blogging communities and forums will tell you how people/blogger like to link their site; especially in comments/threads section where they have also participated.

• Creating Scoops for Your Community: Scoops are assets for link baiting. Break a big story that’s worth reading for the communities. When you are the first one to expose a relevant story, you are more likely to get links from many. Becoming the source of incoming link’s news post will garner more clicks to your site.

• Creating Tools that help your community: Add a tool in your website that is appealing or positive in nature for other bloggers. While it will be beneficial for the bloggers, it will also point back to your own site meaning you can count clicks and lure more links with the proceeding.

• Create Activities / Events: Make your site happening to lure links. A good way of doing the same may be organizing a contest/quiz on the topic. The main crux is people tend to pass the topics of humor to others as well as like to participate in any quiz or contest that promises a good award. Other activities can also be sounding enough provided they have the essential attributes of attracting traffic.

• Give birth to a Controversy: First of all don’t do it if you have less reason to prove your stance. However; if you think you could manage it well and have sufficient ground, posting a controversy in your blog would not be a bad idea. The stir will promise you loads of links form both supporters and critics.

Apart from the above, exist several other ways through which you can lure link to your site. All the techniques if implemented thoroughly will surely increase traffic to your site and dont forget a lot of links for sure

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