Link baiting tips
January 29th, 2008 by Andreas from XavierMedia.comLink baiting is a good way to get more traffic to your site and in some cases also increase your search engine ranking by increasing the number of links to your site. This is the explanation from Wikipedia:
Link bait is any content or feature within a website that somehow baits viewers to place links to it from other websites. Matt Cutts defines link bait as anything "interesting enough to catch people's attention."[3] Link bait can be an extremely powerful form of marketing as it is viral in nature.
So how do you link bait? Any good resource, article, contest or even tool online can be used to link bait. It just got to be good enough to make people interested.
Tip 1: ABC link baiting
This is actually a kind of fun and easy link bait. Copy the list ABC list from any blog participating like The World According to Xavier, replace the link next to the first letter of your blogs domain name with the name and link to your own blog. If your blog is hosted on for example sampleaddress.com you replace the link next to "S" in the list with a link to your blog at sampleaddress.com.
Then replace the five links at the bottom with five other blogs you would like to invite to participate in this link bait (don't call it a link bait, because then people may become afraid to participate).
That's it! Now you just have to wait for someone visiting your blog, copy your link list and cross your fingers that they don't replace your own link 
. As long as this list is circling the Internet you will get a lot of links and visitors to your own blog 
Tip 2: Spambot trap link bait
Everyone just hate spam so by setting up the spam bot trap from XavierMedia.com you can get people to link to your own site. This little PHP script will simply trick the spam bots (robots searching for email addresses to spam) to harvest a bunch of invalid and fake email addresses. If the spammers get too many invalid email addresses their mailing lists will become completely useless and they have to start all over 
again. Real people that visit your site will be asked to link to your spam trap page so more and more spam bots will find the page and think they have found the mother load of email addresses. You as the site owner will get more real visitors to your site participating in the war against spam and you will also get more pagerank
Do you got some link baiting tips? Just let me know and maybe, just maybe, I'll write a few lines about the tip
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January 30th, 2008 at 2:33 am
The word "baiting" has such a negative connotation, but we all do what we can to increase traffic and links to our sites.
Most site owners that enjoy the posts and atmosphere of other sites are quick to link to that site because they want to go back.
Creating a site that your readers want to return to with consistently fresh and interesting posts is the way to go in my opinion. Your site itself becomes "bait."
At the same time, a tag like the ABC tag is fun to encounter and participate in every now and then. As a matter of fact, I took the "bait" and posted the tag on my site!
I like the Spambot trap, however, I've been pretty fortunate not to get spammed that often, so I wouldn't necessarily be attracted to that one.
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