Comments on: Is Link Bait A Viable SEO Strategy?

By: MasterLinker

MasterLinker — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:22:32 +0000

I agree that Link Baiting is good SEO. Even more importantly, Google agrees that Link Baiting is good SEO (see Matt Cutts’ 2009 WordCamp presentation).

This is extremely important to know since the goal of all SEO efforts is to rank higher in search engines (especially Google with 65%+ market share). If a practice can help you build links and traffic to your website, and it is endorsed by Google, by all means use it!

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:08:12 +0000

Hi Tao – I agree with you building highly relevant incoming links through a link bait by enhancing the user experience by providing excellent content, is totally the way to go and is indeed a clean and white hat SEO approach…

By: Tao - board games Canada

Tao - board games Canada — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:04:10 +0000

By defining how their search engine works, Google wants us to create good content. So if we do so, and get links, I can’t really see them penalising you for doing what they request. If they did, I’d be surprised if you had trouble getting reinstated.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:08:06 +0000

Hi RobN – Thanks for providing an example of a good link bait approach for all of our readers!

Hi Website Promotion Guy – Excellent point, knowing the keyword phrases you want to target within your link bait campaign is a must! Thanks for the comment!

By: Will SEO Lose Its Effectiveness?

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By: Website Promotion Guy

Website Promotion Guy — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:58:16 +0000

Link Bait could be effective if you consider keyword research before you start writing. Then, you should use your selected keywords at your post’s key positions. This is the minimum you can do for attracting links.

By: RobN

RobN — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:08:21 +0000

I support your comment above Nick.

I did some SEO for a company in the ‘sample letter’ niche.

The top 2 or 3 spots were held by legit companies with great content and seo strategies. The one I SEO-ed eventually got there as well. However, we were never able to beat out the top spot held by a company that SEOs for free letters and gives away simply to draw traffic to their primary model of homebiz and office supplies for which they rank very poorly in SEO.

The company with the free letters allows for free copy-and-paste and free use, and their letters are available around the net from other sites; their content is therefore not unique and widely duplicated. Yet, they remain in that top spot because of so many sites linking to them.

Kudos to those other sites who have posted their free letters openly online. At least they didn’t market themselves as if they were something they are not.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:55:16 +0000

Hi Art – That is very true, your content should be very good and written to enhance your user experience not just get links through link bait…

By: Art Hendela

Art Hendela — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:55:39 +0000

If you have content that other people would like to reference and link that’s not manipulation, that’s popularity of good content.