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Getting More Links to your Blog - Link Baiting

This post at Big List Blog provides big list of blog resources that address the topic of getting useful links to your blog posts from other blogs. This list will grow. If you know of a useful resource that could be added to this list, please send it to me at [narsi]@[esource].[in] (pl remove the [] for my mail address).

Leveraging Linkbait - an excellent and detailed introduction to and analysis of link bait, also has 7 tips for linkbait success. Read this blog post from the Yahoo Publisher Network

Good list of Linkbaiting tips from Jim Westergren

Andy Hagan's Ultimate Guide to Link Baiting and Social Media Marketing - One naturally gets skeptical when one sees the words ultimate guide, but having read through what Andy has to say at this post, I fully agree with a comment found at the bottom of the post, "If you can’t figure things out with Andy’s guide to linkbaiting, then you’re probably not gonna catch on. Notice it is not a guide - it is an ULTIMATE guide." Andy, thank you!

Link Baiting: Great Idea or Passing Fad? asks Jennifer Laycock in this January, 2007 post at Search Engine Guide. She feels that Link Baiting as a concept is here to stay. Read more from her blog post here

How to be Remarkable by Seth Godin - not directly a post on link bait, but as you will easily see, the connection is obvious, Jan 2007 post

The Enormous Link-bait List - from Cornwall SEO - looks like someone got there before BigList! Excellent list of over 100 (did not really count it, but guess should be over a ton) blog resources for link bait info.

Link Building vs. Link Baiting vs. Genuine Buzz - Listen to what Mike Levin says, it is interesting, "My question to you is how hard did Steve Jobs have to work to get everyone to link to Apple on the iPhone? Creating products that are insanely great is a viable alternative to manipulative SEO techniques. Of course, this is manipulation of another sort. But if you can create genuine buzz around a new category of product that fulfills a real need, the urgency to perform SEO goes down. You don't have to ask for a single link. People link to you, naturally." Absolutely! The only problem is, not every one of us has a Steve Jobs or even nearabouts in us. But that is no reason not to read this well-thought-and-written post @ the Hit Tail blog

The Art of Linkbaiting - One of the earliest blog posts I found on Link Baiting (Nov 2005) written by David Krug @ Performancing.com - He says as a preamble to the article, Linkbaiting "is not without potential perils, but the time honored tradition of being contrary, in order to get attention is well proved, and done right, it's a killer way to break into a new area. There are also safer ways of linkbaitng, they're just less fun :)." David goes on to say that you need a hook to bait a link and looks at some ppular "hooks": (a) News hook, (b) Contrary Hook, (c) Attack Hook, (d) Resource Hook, (e) Humour Hook. Excellent post, read the full article here

Relevant Linking is not the Same as Link Baiting, says TonNet @ this Education & Technology blog post

Asking for links - in this well-analysed blog post Kate provides us with a logical approach while asking for links from other blogs / bloggers

How to Make Your Blog Popular - a 10-point approach suggested Anne Zelenka @ her blog Anne 2.1

Online Publicity and Link Building in 2007: An Eric Ward Webcast - an excellent coverage of the web cast by Tamar @ the 10e20 blog

LinkBait alone won’t do it. You need Link Ninjas - from Jim Boykin's blog

You Have Heard of Link Bait - This is Pin Bait

Link Love vs. Link Bait - By S. Housley

Don't take the (link) bait - Actually, I don't have a strong objection to link bait. I do have a strong objection to the term, and its unfortunate connotations. The whole notion of baiting someone is not positive. And if you buy into the term, it becomes tempting to buy into bad ideas, says Eric Enge at this Search Engine Watch blog post

Link Bait: Malicoat Explains the Hooks + Link Tools and Digg PR - Posted by Garrett French @ Search Marketing Standard

2007 Guide To Linkbaiting: The Year Of Widgetbait? - by Nick Wilson from Search Engine Land blog post

The Art of Linkbaiting - by Performancing @ the Performancing blog post - one of the earliest, much quoted, article on Link Baiting - November 8, 2005

Link Bait Tips - Most of you know the importance of links when it comes to respectable search engine rankings. You need one to get the other. However, how do you go about attracting these prospective linkers? - from Web Pro News blog post

More about my Link Bait Content Strategy and Concepting Service - So you think you need some linkbait? Maybe, maybe not. If you are seeking a linkbait service for the sole purpose of quick high search engine rankings, you might want to stop, because that's what everyone is trying. In my opinion that approach isn't very wise. In this new era of personalized search results, links are more important than ever, and linkbait needs to be white-hat and about verticality, not just algorithms, says Eric Ward at this post @ the Eric Ward blog

Link Bait: The Down Side - One of the hot topics in the SEO community over the past couple of years has been link bait. It is often characterized as an obvious good - why wouldn’t anyone try and get links - however, as with any marketing strategy, it has pros and cons, says this blog post at the V7 Network

The Links that can't be Baited - by Eric Ward @ Search Engine Land

10 Sure-Fire Headline Formulas That Work - from CopyBlogger

Leveraging Linkbait - from Yahoo Publisher Network

The Resource Linkbait - Using Lists to Build Authority, Traffic and Links to your Website - from Dosh Dosh blog post

When LinkBait Goes too Far - Posted by Jennifer Laycock @ Search Engine Guide

Is your linkbait not working? try writing instead… February, 2007 post @ Venture Skills

The How-Tos of Linkbait for Affiliates - The author makes a confession to start with: "Let me start this one off by saying that while I am a big proponent of linkbait, I can’t admit to ever having successfully produced any linkbait – so what I am sharing today comes from my research (read: reading blog posts) on the topic, not from hands-on experience. With that in mind, let’s do this…" Read this useful post from Affiliate Blog

Session: Link Baiting & Viral Search Success - Posted by Thomas McMahon; Sitting in on the link baiting session the presenters made it sound so easy. Rand talked about how, on average, a front page Digg post or exposure on Techcrunch can get you 2000 new inbound links. That’s an astronomical amount of links and the good thing is, everyone can can do it. Here are some things to consider - a good list of 20+ points, excellent!

Traffic Without Search Engines - Yes, It Can Be Done - By Jerely @ Nusuni - There comes a time in every blog’s life when it gets little or no traffic from search engines. It has happened to everyone at one point - getting kicked out of the search rankings temporarily. Just like with monetization, it is vitally important to have multiple streams [of traffic] so your blog can survive when Google betrays you, says Jeremy and tells us how to do this

Viral Marketing and SEO, It’s So Easy - says Nathaniel Broughton - seems stupid to me on the surface, but viral marketing is so much about playing on that universal desire of people to feel cool, see their name, get props, etc., says the author and continues with this theme to provide some good ideas to make your content viral - from EnviSEO blog

Link Ninjas vs. Bait Pirates - Posted by great scott! While traditional link ("Link Ninjas") building is a necessary evil, I feel it is my sworn duty to make a case for the awesome power of a scurvy crew of Bait Pirates!, says Great Scott at SEO moz - interesting post

Six Top Linking Strategies - a February, 2007 by John Chow - "In my never-ending quest to get more backlinks I have tried many methods, which I will share with you. These link building techniques have so far generated 7,218 links from 1,952 blogs, according to Technorati. That’s good enough to rank me 413th most popular blog on the Internet. Moreover, this is just the number of blogs linking to me. According to Yahoo, over 58,000 websites link to John Chow dot Com."...These data should be enough to make you want to read this post @ John Chow dot com

Internal Linking Strategy: SEO Self Reflection - SEO articles abound on social media linking strategies. SEO blog posts are legion on the topic of link and widget bait. SEO forums buzz endlessly about reciprocal versus one-way linking. There is no doubt that all of those various types of external, inbound links matter. But how often do we discuss internal linking strategies? Perhaps not often enough feels Mike Valentine in this post @ Reality SEO and tries to remedy this situation at this excellent post

Can You Compete with Industrial Strength Linkbaiting? (or, Why My Site Will Outrank Yours for [mortgage]) - Now here's one confident soul that predicts that with link-baiting he can beat the best of link ninjas...interesting, thought-provoking read @ Tropical SEO blog

Long Tail PR: how to do publicity without a press release (or the press) - "But what about the Long Tail of media--all those new influentials, from the micromedia of Techcrunch and Gizmodo to individual bloggers? And the social news aggregators like Digg and our own Reddit? They're where the most powerful sort of marketing--word of mouth--starts, but most of them don't want to hear from a PR person at all...So now imagine that you're one of those PR professionals. What do you do?" - asks Chris Anderson @ this post @ The Long Tail PR and provides some answers - and even more answers are provided in the comments section!

Using honey pots and sleepers to get higher search engine rankings - A successful search engine marketing strategy requires that you make use of a wide variety of web pages. Welcome to the world of sleepers, rockets and honey pots!, says this interesting article at Pandia Search Engine News. Know more about what these sleepers, rockets and honey pots are all about at this post.

SEO Linkbait v. Online WoM Campaign: The Difference is Positioning? - asks this post at Emergence Media and provides its perspectives on the issue

Link Baiting for the Beginner - Link Bait – A Beginners Guide to Search Engine Marketing - Kelvin Newman - While the post certainly is true to its objective of explaining link-bait to a beginner, it does so in such a clear manner that it could be a useful rehash for experts even. From Online Business News & Reviews Blog

PubCon - Viral and WOMM Marketing Management - Nov 16 2006 | Conferences - Once it goes viral, you can’t control it - or can you? This session will study the targeting criteria of word of mouth marketing and viral marketing management. Moderator: Todd Friesen; lots and lots of inputs and resources at this post

Link Building is Relationship Building - Posted in SEO by smbconsulting - By Jennifer Laycock - January, 2006 - "Most small business owners understand that one of the most important things they need to do in order to help their web sites rank better on the search engines is to build incoming links from quality, relevant web sites. I’ve written in the past about building the right content to serve as link bait, but the reality is that until your site starts to be found on its own, it’s hard to get those links, no matter how great your content is. That means that many small business owners will need to start off their link building campaign by asking for links. That may sound easy enough, but a good link request requires true skill to deliver," says Jennifer in this post

Link Baiting - from the PPC Managers Board - a failr long and detailed list of tools and techniques that can be used for link baiting

101 Ways to Build Link Popularity - Wow, there really are 101 points in this post, some of them known ideas, some of them new and really worth trying - from the Make Money Gurus blog

Review John Chow dot Com and Get Traffic - There is something really interesting about this blog's link-baiting technique. To paraphrase in the author's own words: "John Chow dot Com is a blog that helps you make money online. He is offering to link to your blog if you review his blog." Interesting, isn't it? Read more from here

How difficult is Linkbaiting?- from Google Success SEO SEM Tips blog - So, what could we use to bait people into linking to you? - this post provides some core ideas that can make your process of getting inbound links easier

SES: Link Baiting And Viral Search Success, by: Thomas McMahon - Dec 2006 - Sitting in on the link baiting session the presenters made it sound so easy. Rand talked about how, on average, a front page Digg post or exposure on Techcrunch can get you 2000 new inbound links. Thomas provides a summary of points from the session

The real reason nobody reads your blog - Alister Cameron - "This post is dedicated to anyone who is grieving over the fact that after months of intense blogging...the stats keep telling you that no-one is coming. There’s just nobody out there! And you’re left asking yourself what on earth could the success formula be, that explains the meteoric rise of a (seemingly) lucky lucky few, and the slow realization of the great majority… that they’re going absolutely nowhere....Well fellow try-hard bloggers, there is light at the end of the tunnel," says Alister and ends up writing a detailed and excellent post. A must-must read for any one who has to do with blogging

Rand Fishkin’s 7 tips for Link Bait Success - December, 2006 by Eric Enge - This post provides a summary of Rand Fishkin’s list of 7 steps for Success in Link baiting. In order of link generating power, as determined by SEOmoz’s research, here is the list: (1) Digg, (2) Slashdot, (3) Fark, (4) Del.icio.us, (5) Reddit, (6) Boing Boing, (7) Techmeme, (8) Techcrunch, (9) Netscape, (10) Lifehacker, (11) StumbleUpon, (12) Shoutwire. read more from this post for specific tips on how to succeed in getting links and traffic with the above list and more

10 Steps to a Viral Tutorial That Sells - October, 2006 post @ CopyBlogger - Can a tutorial attract links and traffic, while selling at the same time? We know that a well-written tutorial that stays strongly focused on benefits to the reader can fly under the “sales-alert” radar and lead to great results, says Brian Clark at this CopyBlogger post and provides us more suggestions for us to make this happen

My Simple Guide On How To Get to Digg’s FrontPage - an October, 2006 post at INCREASEO - just three points made, but useful - at least you will know what NOT to do

SES: Link Baiting - Experienced Marketers Only - The Linkbaiting session at SES 2006 in San Jose offered bucket loads of link bait to hopeful link anglers, says Mike Banks Valentine, who provides his summary of the ideas at the event and his perspectives in this long and useful post at Web Pro News (Sep 2006)

Use Headline To Link Bait - from Buzz Badge

The Power of Forum Promotion - January, 2007 - Discussion forums are everywhere. You can find forums for almost any subject you can think of, from train spotting to budgerigars. Certain forums happen to be extremely large with thousands of users logging in every single day, so naturally they have become a target for spam. How can you utilize the power of the discussion forum to drive traffic to your site without being branded a spammer? Read more from this post at My SEO Journey

101 Ways to Build Link Popularity - from Doepay blog

Linking Odds & Ends - In this post, Eric Ward provides a helpful mashup of link building related notes, news, and tips. In his words, "This is my attempt to hide that I couldn't bear to write about link bait again..." - useful post, discussing some less-discussed ideas

Corporate Link Bait Examples - By Jon Henshaw @ Sitening blog

The Essential Guide to Link Building - "Unless you already own a network of hundreds of established sites, which is very unlikely, link building can be by far the most difficult part about promoting a website, but it doesn’t have to be. Below are some tips and examples of some easy ways to get lots of good permanent links," says the author at this post at SEOlogs - an excellent guide to the beginner; has some useful nuggets for folks who know the trade too!

Link Building Wiki - Wow, this is a bible that I couldn't discover from any web search engine or blog search engine! Found this in a comments section of a blog post. Excellent, as I said before, a bible for all those link-builders out there

A Link Is A Reference And What It Is For Us - By: Yuri Filimonov - Nov 2006 - "It looks like everyone is obsessed with getting links, no matter the quality, targeted visitors or any ethical concerns," says the author and reminds us that once we realise that links are a reference, our whole perspective and strategies on link-building could change. A different take on link-building, interesting. From the Search Newz blog

Link Bait: The Path To An Improved Web - by Steven Bradley @ Web Pro News blog

Link Baiting (How Nick Wilson Created SEO Even Seth Godin Could Love) - @ the STUNTDUBL blog

Link Building via Press Releases For SEO Rankings - March, 2006 post by Barry Schwartz, Rusty Brick, Inc. and SERoundtable - Search Enginr Journal blog

I am Not a Link Communist - Todd @ Stuntdubl SEO blog - April 2006 blog post - Todd gives his opinion on trading of links for page popularity

Tips for finding the best pages to get links from - Part 1 & Part 2

The 5 minute Link Value Test - 6 Link Quality Indicators - from Stuntdubl SEO blog

5 Rare & Valuable Link Building Tactics - by randfish @ SEOmoz

21 Link Bait Ideas - by Andy Beal @ Web Pro News

No-one links to the linkers - by Andrew Garrett - Or, more accurately, no-one links to a post that just points them to another post, says the author at this blog post @ Andrew Garrett's Scroll of Emptiness

Link Building Guide - Jim Westergren at this post provides inputs that help you in your link building using 5 steps (1) Study and understand the guidelines for a natural simulation, (2) Study and understand your link profile, (3) Study and understand the effective ways to get links, (4) Work out your own link building program, (5) Get the links!. Read this handy guide here

Top 12 Resources to Discover the Massive Marketing Power of Digg, Stumble and Social Networks - Alex Goad @ Net Frontier Marketing

Why are diggers nuts about Knuttz? - "The folks over at Knuttz.net have cracked the code on Digg. So listen up, I’m here to explain to you exactly how they do it (well, with one critical missing detail!)," says Alister Cameron at this blog post

Building an Audience - DailyBlogTip’s Traffic Generation Tips Project - Daniel at DailyBlogTips ran a group blogging project for tips on how to increase traffic to your site. The author of this note participated, and here are the group results as ordered by the Blogomatron 5000.

Are You Burning Blog Bridges? - by Chris Garrett, February, 2007 post @ Chris Garrett on New Media blog - "Snark, criticism, attack-bait, poking wasps nests, call it what you want, while it might be an effective “link bait” strategy, it’s not one I would recommend. This is the path to the dark side," says Chris in this interesting post, gives us some good ideas on what to avoid while blogging, and as a corollary what could be excellent long-term blogging strategies.

Exclusive: Is Spotplex a Better Digg? - Michael Arrington @ Tech Crunch - "News stories are not submitted by users, as with Digg. Instead, sites that want to participate include some javascript code on their site, which monitors what stories/posts are read. The more times a story is read, the higher it appears in Spotplex. Very popular stories will make it to the Spotplex home page," explains this post about Spotplex and provides an analysis of the pros and cons of Spotplex and what it means to a web site / blog. Interesting read

A Comprehensive Guide to Going Viral on Digg (Part 1)Posted by Daniel Tynski @ SEOmoz blog, Mar 2007

Secrets to Beating the Sandbox 2.0 REVEALED: The Ultimate Guide - By Andy "Organic-Is-My-Middle-Name" Hagans - though this post is arguably not directly about links or link-baiting, it tells us the importance of getting reverse links when our sites are sand-boxed by search engines - read google. Excellent post with detailed steps on what to do to get out of the sandbox - actually most of what-to-do is about getting trusted inbound links to our sad, sandboxed sites! - @ the Link Building Blog, Sep 2006 post

Organic SEO: Blogs cast the link bait - "Organic SEO might be a fashionable phrase in SEO circles, but the concept is as old (if you can call it that) as the internet itself. To use another SEO buzzword, we're talking link bait. In essence, it's all about the web page's content, and how it attracts natural inbound links," says Wayne Hurlbert at this Blog Business World blog, and provides some simple but handy strategies that can make your link-baiting more effective.

21 Ways to Link Bait Success for Realtors - from Famous Agents web page - interesting to see a post on link-bait with special focus on a particular industry / vertical. Though most ideas discussed are discussed in a generic tone, some of the examples provided and perspectives are possibly unique for realtors, and hence an excellent read. One can readily understand how such customisations can be done for other verticals too!

Link Baiting - How Nick Wilson Ccreated SEO Even Seth Godin Would Love - from Stan Dubl, SEO Consult

Viral Marketing with Blogs - from Copy Blogger

Digg is for Dweebs - Free SEO Ideas - from SEO Book

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