Sunday, March 18, 2007
Using Web 2.0 to Generate Traffic to Blogs and Sites
Using Web 2.0 to Generate Traffic to Blogs and Web Sites
This blog post @ the Big List blog provides comprehensive blog resources that address the topic of utilising web 2.0 concepts to generate traffic to blogs and web sites. 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).
Here's a pretty good blog post on the topic of using Web 2.0 ideas and tools to generate traffic to your blogs and sites. Quite a long list of web resources provided here. From the blog Engineering a New World
Go2Web20.net - A large directory of web 2.0 sites, quite comprehensive
A Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon: How to Build Massive Traffic to Your Website and Monetize it - The author, having experimented with StumbleUpon for the past few months and having had a good experience, has written this mini guide on StumbleUpon because he felt StumbleUpon had enormous potential in maximizing brand exposure while fitting nicely with a long term site building or monetization strategy. Read more from this blog post @ DoshDosh
Seth Godin's Web 2.0 Traffic Hotlist @ Alexaholic - excellent and comprehensive list
In a well thought out analysis of Web 2.0 sites, the traffic they generate and the usefulness of such traffic, this blog post @ Living Digitally says it is important to know what kinds of Web 2.0 sites and blogs are the real influencers for the domains you are / your blog or site is operating in. Interesting read.
An excellent analysis by Paul O'Flaherty on whether social sites such as Digg would end the domination of search engines in sending traffic to your site. Paul feels it is unlikely, what is more likely in his opinion is that a strategy that factors in the strengths of both search engines and Web 2.0 sites would be far more useful in the near future.
Web 2.0 - What’s the Next Wave? - Posted by Drew Meyers @ Drew Meyer's Insights blog - in the author's own words, "instead of hypothesizing about Web 3.0, I thought I’d focus on the next wave of Web 2.0 technology. This has been a work in progress for awhile, but I think I finally finished my thoughts." Drew talks about the trends in the following: (a) Merging of Blogging and Social Networking, (b) API’s become Vital, (c)Continued Rise of Wiki’s (user-generated content), (d) Mobile Web Applications Take Off, (e) RSS as a search tool
How to Get Traffic from Web 2.0 Sites like Digg, Reddit & StumbleUpon - a nice blog post from the Mind Valley Labs, provides a good introduction to the top web 2.0 sites and provides a few hints on how to write articles that can get you good viewership from these social / web 2.0 sites
Mobile Meme Trackers - A meme according to Wikipedia, is a "unit of cultural information" such as "...tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches." As used in the Web 2.0 world it seems to have come to mean "hot topic" or "the next big thing". A lot of people have a need to track the day's newest memes and a number of Web sites attempt to do just that - hence the meme trackers. The meme concept tracker is spreading to the mobile web, says this blog post @ WAP Review, and this post provides a roundup of current mobile meme trackers.
How Can Squidoo Increase Website Traffic? - from the Can I Make Big Money Online blog post
This blog post @ the Big List blog provides comprehensive blog resources that address the topic of utilising web 2.0 concepts to generate traffic to blogs and web sites. 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).
Here's a pretty good blog post on the topic of using Web 2.0 ideas and tools to generate traffic to your blogs and sites. Quite a long list of web resources provided here. From the blog Engineering a New World
Go2Web20.net - A large directory of web 2.0 sites, quite comprehensive
A Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon: How to Build Massive Traffic to Your Website and Monetize it - The author, having experimented with StumbleUpon for the past few months and having had a good experience, has written this mini guide on StumbleUpon because he felt StumbleUpon had enormous potential in maximizing brand exposure while fitting nicely with a long term site building or monetization strategy. Read more from this blog post @ DoshDosh
Seth Godin's Web 2.0 Traffic Hotlist @ Alexaholic - excellent and comprehensive list
In a well thought out analysis of Web 2.0 sites, the traffic they generate and the usefulness of such traffic, this blog post @ Living Digitally says it is important to know what kinds of Web 2.0 sites and blogs are the real influencers for the domains you are / your blog or site is operating in. Interesting read.
An excellent analysis by Paul O'Flaherty on whether social sites such as Digg would end the domination of search engines in sending traffic to your site. Paul feels it is unlikely, what is more likely in his opinion is that a strategy that factors in the strengths of both search engines and Web 2.0 sites would be far more useful in the near future.
Web 2.0 - What’s the Next Wave? - Posted by Drew Meyers @ Drew Meyer's Insights blog - in the author's own words, "instead of hypothesizing about Web 3.0, I thought I’d focus on the next wave of Web 2.0 technology. This has been a work in progress for awhile, but I think I finally finished my thoughts." Drew talks about the trends in the following: (a) Merging of Blogging and Social Networking, (b) API’s become Vital, (c)Continued Rise of Wiki’s (user-generated content), (d) Mobile Web Applications Take Off, (e) RSS as a search tool
How to Get Traffic from Web 2.0 Sites like Digg, Reddit & StumbleUpon - a nice blog post from the Mind Valley Labs, provides a good introduction to the top web 2.0 sites and provides a few hints on how to write articles that can get you good viewership from these social / web 2.0 sites
Mobile Meme Trackers - A meme according to Wikipedia, is a "unit of cultural information" such as "...tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches." As used in the Web 2.0 world it seems to have come to mean "hot topic" or "the next big thing". A lot of people have a need to track the day's newest memes and a number of Web sites attempt to do just that - hence the meme trackers. The meme concept tracker is spreading to the mobile web, says this blog post @ WAP Review, and this post provides a roundup of current mobile meme trackers.
How Can Squidoo Increase Website Traffic? - from the Can I Make Big Money Online blog post
Labels: blogging, marketing, web-2.0
Effective Viral Marketing Tips for Your Blog and Web Site
Effective Viral Marketing Tips for Your Blog and Web Site
This post at the Blig List blog provides comprehensive web resources that addresses the topic of viral marketing methods and suggestions for blogs and web sites. 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).
Online Marketing Videos Every Aspiring Super Marketer Needs To Watch - this post at Jim Kukral gives a brief list of videos (just 2, one featuring Seth Godin and the other Jackie Huba) but both the videos are excellent
Irish blog awards - fantastic viral marketing by default, says this February 19, 2007 post by Paul Walsh @ Segala. Paul says that the Irish blog awards is getting unprecedented attention amongst the Irish blogsphere. As he says, perhaps it is only natural for folks to blog about blog awards...one way of viral marketing?
The Only Thing You Need To Know About Internet Marketing - On reading this headline, I'm sure you will say, "Ah, just another harebrained book for which the author will ask for 50 $." You will be pardoned if you had thought so, because so had I ;-) . This blog post is actually little about Internet and everything about marketing 101. OK, I will cut the flab and come straight to the point. What indeed is that only thing, according to the author (Chris)? "Here’s the secret: GIVE. THEM. WHAT. THEY. WANT. AND….. GIVE. THEM. MORE. MORE. MORE. THAN. WHAT. THEY. WANT." It sounds cliched, but well, most commonsense is cliche, isn't it? Read more from this post @ the Buzz Blog
Word-of-Mouth Marketing Ideas. Some Worthy. Some Worthless - a huge list (43 items if I know my numbers correctly) of viral marketing / evangelistic marketing / word of mouth marketing ideas, not specifically for blogs though. The author (Spike Jones) also gives his opinion on what he thinks is a good idea and what is not. A March 15, 2007 post @ Dimano Marketing
Viral Campaigns Need to Put Entertainment First - appears to be the message of this blog post at Social Media Marketing blog. Useful post to read, gives quite a few examples and links for viral campaigns especially of viral videos. Post by Scott Monty
A Comprehensive Guide to Going Viral on Digg (Part 1) - by Daniel Tynski @ SEOmoz - this detailed and thorough article lives up to its title. Don't miss this post
7 tricks to Viral Web Marketing - long, detailed, catchy blog post...embeds some of the tricks it puts forth, and as a result finds itself in this list :-)...the seven tricks discussed at this excellent post are: 1: Make people feel something, 2: Do something unexpected, 3: Do not try to make advertisements (that sucks), 4: Make sequels, 5: Allow Sharing, downloading and embedding, 6: Connect with comments, 7: Never restrict access! From the Baekdal blog
Tony Quinlan posts a brief but useful list of viral marketing references at this post at the partum intelligendo blog
Viral Marketing and Growth - a blog post at the Rogelio Choy blog - quite a few examples provided, good post
How Can I Generate Viral Marketing for My Products & Services @ the Billion Dollar Site - lots and lots of links and resources for viral marketing in general (not specifically tuned for blogs, but it is a very useful resource all the same)
This post at the Blig List blog provides comprehensive web resources that addresses the topic of viral marketing methods and suggestions for blogs and web sites. 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).
Online Marketing Videos Every Aspiring Super Marketer Needs To Watch - this post at Jim Kukral gives a brief list of videos (just 2, one featuring Seth Godin and the other Jackie Huba) but both the videos are excellent
Irish blog awards - fantastic viral marketing by default, says this February 19, 2007 post by Paul Walsh @ Segala. Paul says that the Irish blog awards is getting unprecedented attention amongst the Irish blogsphere. As he says, perhaps it is only natural for folks to blog about blog awards...one way of viral marketing?
The Only Thing You Need To Know About Internet Marketing - On reading this headline, I'm sure you will say, "Ah, just another harebrained book for which the author will ask for 50 $." You will be pardoned if you had thought so, because so had I ;-) . This blog post is actually little about Internet and everything about marketing 101. OK, I will cut the flab and come straight to the point. What indeed is that only thing, according to the author (Chris)? "Here’s the secret: GIVE. THEM. WHAT. THEY. WANT. AND….. GIVE. THEM. MORE. MORE. MORE. THAN. WHAT. THEY. WANT." It sounds cliched, but well, most commonsense is cliche, isn't it? Read more from this post @ the Buzz Blog
Word-of-Mouth Marketing Ideas. Some Worthy. Some Worthless - a huge list (43 items if I know my numbers correctly) of viral marketing / evangelistic marketing / word of mouth marketing ideas, not specifically for blogs though. The author (Spike Jones) also gives his opinion on what he thinks is a good idea and what is not. A March 15, 2007 post @ Dimano Marketing
Viral Campaigns Need to Put Entertainment First - appears to be the message of this blog post at Social Media Marketing blog. Useful post to read, gives quite a few examples and links for viral campaigns especially of viral videos. Post by Scott Monty
A Comprehensive Guide to Going Viral on Digg (Part 1) - by Daniel Tynski @ SEOmoz - this detailed and thorough article lives up to its title. Don't miss this post
7 tricks to Viral Web Marketing - long, detailed, catchy blog post...embeds some of the tricks it puts forth, and as a result finds itself in this list :-)...the seven tricks discussed at this excellent post are: 1: Make people feel something, 2: Do something unexpected, 3: Do not try to make advertisements (that sucks), 4: Make sequels, 5: Allow Sharing, downloading and embedding, 6: Connect with comments, 7: Never restrict access! From the Baekdal blog
Tony Quinlan posts a brief but useful list of viral marketing references at this post at the partum intelligendo blog
Viral Marketing and Growth - a blog post at the Rogelio Choy blog - quite a few examples provided, good post
How Can I Generate Viral Marketing for My Products & Services @ the Billion Dollar Site - lots and lots of links and resources for viral marketing in general (not specifically tuned for blogs, but it is a very useful resource all the same)
Labels: blogging, internet, marketing
Getting More Links to your Blog - Link Baiting
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
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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