Linkbaiting is all about highly relevant attention grabbing content. You need more than a worm or a cricket – you need something special to use as bait and reel in the people you want attention from. You are mostly interested in important bloggers, journalists, or even your competitors sitting up and taking notice. You can [...]
Linkbaiting – an Overview
April 9th, 2010Linkbait – Good or Bad?
February 15th, 2010The question of linkbait is always up in the air. Some say it is imperative, while others warn that Google doesn’t take kindly to deliberate misdirection for links sake alone. We all remember the summer of ’08, when notorious baiter Lyndon Antcliff ran the story about the 13 year old who supposedly stole his father’s [...]
Rules for Blogging
September 14th, 2009Blogs are a great way to draw attention and traffic which you can funnel to your site. There are a few things you should remember when writing blog posts! #1 Pay attention to the source of the source. If you find a tidbit on another blog and decide to work it up into a full [...]
One a Day Promos
December 4th, 2008A great way to get repeat traffic to your site is by doing a promo that is ongoing. Advertise that you will be doing a month of tip of a day, gadget for a day, widget a day or even just a joke per day promo. You can use this to get people to sign [...]
Don’t Kill the Holiday Buzz
November 26th, 2008If you have gone to a lot of trouble to create and uphold some tasty link bait for your site, don’t kill your buzz by coming across as cheap or phony. You need to make sure that any thing you bait your site with is honest, useful and interesting. Doing fake interviews, posting shopped photos [...]
White Hat Linkbait
August 18th, 2008Linkbait is basically an attraction that guides people to link to your site. It’s something to share, that will grab people’s attention, and make them feel like sharing it with others. It can be a piece of breaking news, a funny picture, a joke, a hilarious video or a cool on-site tool that people will [...]
Obtaining Links the Old Fashioned Way
June 23rd, 2008In the world of SEO, link-building plays the prince to content’s king. We all understand the necessity of links, and are desperate to get them. We have a million tricks and bell and whistles at our disposal. Sometimes we can get caught up in the hooplah. A better widget, a more outrageous piece of gossip, [...]
Baiting Your Website – Good or Bad?
June 6th, 2008The question of link baiting got a huge bump late last month when Lyndon Antcliff now notorious hoax made headlines in major news sources in both the US and the UK. The story concerned a 13 year old boy’s shopping spree that supposedly included a rendezvous at a TX motel to play X-Box with [...]
Why Linkbaiting Has a Bad Name – A (Not) True Story
May 23rd, 2008It started as a half page story on a UK financial site, under the header, “Only in America”. It told a tale of a 13 year old boy from a Texas town who used his father’s credit line to hole up with buddies in a motel and play X-Box with call girls he ordered from [...]













