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link baiting techniques
Have you heard of “link baiting techniques” before? It is a cunning way to drive traffic to your blog or webiste. Like other methods, such as yesterdays post on how to share a blog post on facebook - You can use it in your business to leverage the traffic and “social proof” from your visitors.
What Do These Link Bait Strategies look Like?
Well, to be honest there are many link baiting examples that we can explore. However I am not going to bore you with an exhaustive list of link bait ideas. I will give you a few so that you can understand what the whole idea is.
Software
One example is creating viral software. A lot of us have actually been seduced by this method without even knowing. A classic example is free blog themes. These blog theme creators didn’t just wake up out of bed one day and tought, I want to spend my time to create a free blog theme to help the world! (ha)
The payback for these guys is a “cheeky” link back from your blog. Think of a really popular free blog theme, and now just think of how many one way backlinks that creator is getting to promote his product or services. Clever dude!
Controversy
In fact you do not have to be a clever software developer to use link baiting techniques. You can simply create content that people will want to share and link to. An example of this is a blog post that has a controversial view point that will provoke some debate. Be warned, you have to be careful not to tread on the wrong toes in your industry. The internet has made the world a small place!
Making People Laugh
Another approach is humorous content. if you can create some content that will make people laugh, they will instinctivly want to share your content with all their friends, and their friends will want to share it with their friends, and so on.
Out of all of these techniques I prefer this one. It is a lot more rewarding getting people to smile, and it makes them happy and want to return.
Have you got any crazy link baiting techniques?
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