Link Baiting

One of the best and the far most the effective way to gain linksto your website or blogs is link baiting idea. What do you mean by Link Baiting? This is a new idea born amongwebmasters to gain popularity for their blogs/web page. As youall know getting attention is an old trick, weather in real lifeor online. Politician uses this often to stay in limelight. Thissame rule applies to link baiting as well. There are twodifferent flavors in link baiting idea. Good and bad. Good ones are thoseto create news first like exposing scams and create news, whichwill surprise everyone.Bad ones are those you create a controversy or attach someleading personalities in your blogs. Think that you are tryingto gain traffic not really hurt anyone. These kinds of tricks orideas will bring in 1000's of website/blogs linking to yoursite. Link baiting idea is a blackhat technique that's why mostwebmasters think it is not legitimate to use it. But the effectsof link baiting have profound effect and gradually drive trafficto your blog or site. If implement properly it can draw hugelinks with minimum effort from your side. Some link expert's call that "hooks" about SEO advicehas mentioned "LinkBait" as something interesting to catchpeople's attention. He say's Linkbaiting is not a bad idea. Socreating attention is the key to that also person should becreative in his thought to get that idea into place. You might all have heard of Alex Tew ofhttp://www.milliondollarhomepage.com he created an idea to raisea Million $ to raise funds for his college education by selling1 pixel for a $ on his website. After four months heaccomplished the task. This is the kind of news you shouldcreate to get attention. His site was also mentioned in CNN Newsas well. After his idea there are 100 of sites mushroomed overthe web like one cent pixels but they are not gaining to achievethe results Alex could drew to his website. So be first tocreate news before it gets crowded. Actually the term "linkbait" was started by Aaron Wall of SEObook in his post way back in August 2005. He says in his postthat if "you are in a field that can't build links naturallycreate linkbait". By creating something on your web site that'sfunny, controversial, informative, or creative, it will gainnatural links--which is the key to top search engine rankings. has comeup with an idea to throw a contest to get links. The idea issimple give Andy a link baiting idea and if that works you willearn $1000 for that. He has posted that on BizNicheMedia.comblog. So his idea for a contest itself is an example of linkbaiting. Generate information or ideas which will make people to talkwhich will definitely a great to generate a good inbound links.