What is Link Bait?

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    Linkbait is essentially a piece of content placed on a web page - whether it's an article, blog post, picture, or any other section of cyberspace - that is designed for the specific intention of gathering links from as many different sources as possible.

    With the rise of the blogosphere, meritocracy and social bookmarking sites, all it takes is one interesting page on a site, someone to notice the page, and a few people to share the link - and before you know it, you've accrued a large number of links across a wide variety of sites.
     
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    Link Baits means getting maximum profit threw a text link and it is the part of article submission.
     
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    Link baiting is refers to a area on website or blog or article attractive enough or encourage others to link to website.
     
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    Link bait is a SEO method known as white hat SEO. The idea is to produce content so good, people will build links for you. You can do this through infographics, viral videos, press releases of actual news that people care about and through other manners of content.
     
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    Link bait is content on your site to which other sites link because they want to, not because you ask them to.
     
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    Linkbait is essentially a piece of content placed on a web page - whether it's an article, blog post, picture, or any other section of cyberspace - that is designed for the specific intention of gathering links from as many different sources as possible.

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    Link Bait refers to a placement of a link on a website for the purpose of tempting other web pages to link to that site.
     
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    Well well well... Here so many Link Bait description but no one specific url of good advertising site.
    I can share this value info.
     
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    link bait is not good for website .its harmful for sites
     
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    Link baiting (or linkbaiting) is the latest buzz word in the SEO world and has come to be the preferred way to natural link building.
    It means to create something that naturally attract backlinks for your web page by getting people to talk about it, discussing it on forums, blogging about i, posting it on del.icio.us/Furl/Digg/Shoutwire and linking to it from their sites. It also attracts a lot of visitors.
    Here is a list of ideas:
    • Make a valuable resource (lists, special reports, history of, how to, etc.)
    • Interview (e-mail/phone) prominent people and publish it.
    • Build a useful tool
    • Write an interesting article
    • Run a newsworthy ‘event’ such as a contest
    • Test something new that has not been done before
    • Be the first in doing something on the internet
    • Write something controversial
    • Be the first to write the latest news in your niche
    • Be the first to expose a scammer
    • Disagree with an authority
    • Write some funny humor
    • Make an interesting picture
    • Be the first to research and document something
    • Make a theme, plugin or piece of software
    • Make a tool that others can put on their sites but that links to you
    • Make a joke about a known person
    • Make a resource that is just in time for a major event
    • Write an outrageous theory and back it up with logics
    • Write useful comments on something that is happening
    • Give something valuable for free
    • Coin a new acronym in your niche and get people to talk about it
    • Become an expert in your niche and write valuable information
    Useful resources on Link Baiting (many of the tips above taken from here):
     
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    So is linkbaiting a technique or a side effect of good article writing? Well, in our case we presented some interesting, original research in an interesting and digestible way - the ever-popular top 10 list. A quick submission to Digg, a meritocracy and social-based tech news site, and a few positive 'Diggs' from the users there, we broke the front page, and was subject to a massive surge in traffic, and perhaps more importantly, a massive influx of inbound links.
     
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    thanks pinnacle web solution for such useful information.
     
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    Link bait is any content or feature, within a website, designed specifically to gain attention or encourage others to link to the website. Matt Cutts defines link bait as anything "interesting enough to catch people's attention."[1] Link bait can be an extremely powerful form of marketing as it is viral in nature. The term often has a negative or dismissive connotation. The content for link baiting would be a text, image, audio or video clip and it interesting enough to catch people’s attention.
     
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    Link bait is content on your site to which other sites link because they want to, not because you ask them to.
     
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    The basic idea of link baiting is to create a totally unique concept and have it circulated in highly visible media. If the content you published really has something unique, it will interest many visitors and many websites will place links to this content in their website.
     
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    Link bait is like the SEO edition of popular promotion. Anything can be link lure, as long as it is exciting enough to produce a lot of back hyperlinks (link popular video clips on YouTube). Web link lure does not focus on a particular keyword and key phrase and hyperlinks can come from anywhere.
     
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    Link Bait is a technique in which blog url is targeted instead of keywords or website url. Here direct blog url is given in blog commenting or forum commenting.
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