Try These Linkbaiting Techniques

By Jerry Monty

Linkbaiting is something most, if not all, webmasters do-whether they realize it or not! Who doesn't want their content linked to? Backlinks are a good thing, and getting them without any extra effort on your part should always brings a smile to your fac

Producing content that prompts other webmasters to want to tell the world they need to visit your site, is the very best form of flattery to my way of thinking!

Linkbaiting has gotten a bad rap of late (because of a few that will stop at nothing to try to gain back links to their site.) Just stay out of the grey areas when linkbaiting, and get your back links for all the right reasons.

The "ethics" of linkbaiting aside, I would like to offer what I feel are the five best techniques for getting other webmasters to link to your content.

Here are my five best linkbaiting techniques (all white-hat too!):

Write content that is the best "out there" on your chosen topic. Make your content compelling, unique, attention grabbing, provocative, and make sure it provides real, useful, value for your visitors.

Let them hear it from you first-Be the first to break the "big" story. Stay on the cutting edge. Subscribe to magazines, trade journals, or any source of up-to-the-minute happenings in your niche. Try to be the one who gives them "the scoop".

Provide a free tool or piece of software-This can really make the back links show up! If you are unable (like me!) to produce the tool or software, you can always buy it or pay someone to code it for you. The more useful and "used" the tool or software the more links it will generate.

Provide a list of links to high value sites or resources-Give your visitors links to more info, or more resources on your niche. Try to make your list the most complete, or the very best list available, try to stand out for the pack!

Give stuff away-Everybody wants free stuff (I know I do!) So give it to them, and they will share it with their friends. The more value you can give away the more links you'll find showing up.

Put these techniques to work for you in most every thing you write, posts, articles, etc. and you will begin to find back links showing up with regularity. Remember these kind of unsolicited, natural back links are some of the most valuable links there are!

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