Thursday, October 25, 2007

Link Bait: Technique To Generate Trust Worthy Link Backs

Link Bait or Link baiting is the technique to generate trust worthy link backs for the website or blog. Link bait technique falls under the process of link building, and aims to increase the quantity of high-quality, relevant links to a website. Basic idea behind link baiting is same as of link building but with a twist because rather than hunting out for link backs, you are bringing the links to you through unique and popular site content.

Link baiting is the latest buzzing process in the SEO world and has come to be the preferred way to natural link building. It involves the process to create something that naturally attracts backlinks for your web page which finally attracts a lot of visitors.

Techniques of link bait

  • Free Tools: create some sort of tool that is useful enough that people link to it. Automated tools that query data sources, combine information or conduct useful calculations are extremely link worthy.
  • Web 2.0 Applications: Although the term Web 2.0 is more of a buzzword than a technicality, applications that fit the feature set do get a fantastic number of links from the web community and followers of this trend. Think maps, forums, communities, sharing, tagging, RSS, and Blogs.
  • Informational Work Documents Link bait: Provide information that a reader may find very useful. Some rare tips and tricks or any personal experience on the industry trends through which readers can benefit. If you can get high-profile persons in an industry to collaborate, your chances for developing "link-bait" substantially increase.

Link bait helps your website rank well through SEO in great amount as it creates more links to your site, which send potential customers your way. After all, the whole purpose of SEO - coming up high in the search engines is about reaching more people.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

ya neha i am agree with u that link abiting and web 2 applications are one of best way to get ranked on search engines as web 2 applications is one of best way share information on web.