34 Ways to Understand The Importance Of Linkbait
Link bait is any content or feature within a website that somehow baits viewers to place links to it from other websites. Attempts to create link bait are frequently employed in the overall task of . Matt Cutts defines link bait as anything “interesting enough to catch people’s attention.” Link bait can be an extremely powerful form of marketing as it is viral in nature.
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I’ve compiled these 34 useful links to understand the importance of linkbait.
- 37 Viral Post Ideas You Can Use Today by Skellie
- Link Baiting: Which Hook Attracts the Right Fish? @ wiep
- 23 Common Mistakes in Linkbaiting by Jeff
- How to Get Strong Referral Traffic from Social Websites: A Simple Linkbait Tactic by Maki
- What is Linkbait? by Darren Rowse
- Linkbait.. What Should We Offer? @ Absolutely True
- 5 Characteristics of successful Linkbait @ Cornwall SEO
- Linkbait is the New Reciprocal Links Page @ SEO Alchemist
- Andy Hagans’ Ultimate Guide to Linkbaiting and SMM by Andy Hagans
- What Does Google Think About Linkbait? @ Small Business Sem
- A Potential Pitfall For Linkbait? by Roderick Ioerger
- Linkbait - Why the Fuss? What Has Changed? @ Marketing Piranha
- Linkbait - The Chicken or the Egg? by Jason Golod
- Here Is How To Link Bait, But You Already Knew Didn’t You? by Jaan Kanellis
- 100+ Untapped Link Building Strategies by Kim
- How to have creative linkbait ideas by Pete
- The LinkBait Debate: Spam or not? @ Dolphin Promotions
- 102 Ways To Make Your Site A Back-Link Superstar by Court
- 12 Link Building Tactics For 2008 by Ahmed Bilal
- Forget UGC, Discover User-Generated-Linkbait by Tom Critchlow
- Linkbait Linkbait Linkbait - Techniques on Linkbait by Etienne
- Whiteboard Friday - “On The Hook” by Scott
- Linkbaiting, the Art of Mass Link Building by Marty Weintraub
- Case Study of the Mullet Link Bait Strategy @ Vandelay
- The Social Media Marketing KISS by Cameron Olthuis
- Making Link Bait and Viral Marketing Work - Part 1 by Jennifer Laycock
- The Secret of Social Media Marketing Webinar: A Recap by Linda Bustos
- What is link bait worth? by Andy Hagans
- Forget Traditional SEO! Why Good Link Bait is Worth $50K by Jaimie Sirovich
- Death to Linkbait. Long Live Sphinn-bait! by Matt
- Most Creative Viral Marketing by Kirtok
- Linkbait: Tasty morsels to entice readers by Heidi Cool
- What is Linkbaiting? by Stuart Brown
- Golden Rules of Linkbaiting @ smashingmagazine
Enjoy 
Wednesday 28 November 2007 2:22 pm
Thank you for including me on a list that looks like some very good reading material. I’ll be perusing what you have and mining through all of the useful data!
Wednesday 28 November 2007 2:45 pm
Wow, great list! And thanks for adding our social media webinar to the list.
Wednesday 28 November 2007 3:24 pm
Nice roundup and thanks for including me in the list
Thursday 29 November 2007 3:58 pm
Really great article and thanks for the inclusion too. If you’re looking for another nice list of linkbait articles, you might be interested in this :
http://www.cornwallseo.com/search/index.php/2007/02/09/the-enormous-linkbait-list/
Thanks again
Friday 30 November 2007 3:11 am
Thanks for the link. More great link baiting info here:
http://www.jaankanellis.com/link-baiting-and-social-media-optimization-huh/
Wednesday 24 September 2008 1:55 pm
Great list, thanks!
Wednesday 24 September 2008 3:06 pm
Very nice… Thanks for the list!