What Do You Do For Link Bait?

Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Wednesday, 19 of March , 2008 at 1:08 pm

Spend just a little bit of time in an Search Engine Optimization forum and you’re bound to hear someone talking about link bait - what it is, how do you do it, why it’s important, when it’s necessary, etc. etc. Well, there is link bait hype and then there is link bait tripe. But either way, link bait doesn’t have to be difficult. You don’t have to spend countless hours coming up with new and creative ways to get the blog next door to link to you. Sometimes all you have to do is make it simple.

Link bait comes in many ways and shades. Some people are going to link to you no matter what. Others are going to link to you because they like what you are doing. And some bloggers just won’t link to you. Period. What are you going to do? Twist their arms?

When you create a linkable blog post then the links will start coming. All it takes is a simple list. Come up with 10 things you like about an important concept in your industry. Or maybe 10 things you don’t like. A good way to get people to link to you is to list 25 of the most important people in your industry. Then send an e-mail to each of those people and let them know that they made your list. If anyone will link to you, they will. Then, their friends will link to you because the think it’s cool that their friend is on your list.

Link bait isn’t hard. Sometimes it’s the simplest things in the world that helps…

Category: Link Building

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