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The internet is almost fully dominated by Web 2.0, which accounts for the graphics and streaming videos online. With broadband a common feature, video websites are basking in popularity. To add to this, blogs have now become a vital tool for attracting people. Blogs specialize in getting thousands of daily hits, which can be more with well-maintained blogs. Combining blogging with Web 2.0 features will do you a world of good in getting popularity over the internet.

For this, a good tool would be creating a link baiting post, which gives its readers substantial information about the content of the blog. Like if you have a site offering blog content, the blog post can have information on top sites of such. People generally bookmark these pages for future reference, as and when needed.

The rationale behind this technique is to get the attention of the targeted people, thus lowering the need to advertise unnecessarily on a mass scale.

Given below are 20 top link baiting techniques:

1. Have a talk about a given community specifically related to your purpose, and make the visitors feel that they are important and are being cared for.
2. Trace out recent happenings and place them appropriately in this community of yours, and invite a little controversy. But make sure to be thorough and not to overdo on the provocative aspect.
3. Have control over the message. Put the story of yours on an important channel, so that those can be updated by the reaction of people. You can’t have any control over the people’s reactions. If this main channel is not available to you, try getting your message across by passing it through famous channels which primarily pass your idea, like the Tech Crunch, among others.
4. Make sure that you build rapport with people in the market, which will help you in crisis. Also take into account some precautions about a blowback. Based on how important your message is, you may either make it very clear to understand, or may keep some scope for misinterpretation.
5. Make some points of links that are common to your purpose. Do not throw the link equity in the mentioned manner people mostly do:
• Some authors of books do not maintain a website, thus giving out the link equity to other bookstores on the net.
• Most surveyors use Survey Monkey or some other voting tool for conducting surveys. Don’t do this; rather keep a script for voting on the main site where people can have access to it even at a later stage after the survey is closed.
6. Keep good headlines, and be relevant here. Keep it attractive, so that it spreads. Also, instead of including more keywords in the article, go for something that will involve the reader in any way. Also, many times there lies a voting technique where people just vote based on the content without reading the article. Here, title assumes importance. Some good tips for titles are given by Copy Blogger.
7. Most bloggers search for their blog links on search engines many times daily to see the position. So reach out to target consumers, especially those with humor, which will be beneficial. Also keep digging regularly. Most people generally act on and spread that content which is about some worldly thing that they believe in.
8. Involve more communities to access your messages which will help in link baiting.
9. While seeing his ranking in search engines, Rand Fishken went for feedback from around 12 important SEO community members; many of whom were actively involved in spreading the news when it is launched. Also, opting for people’s feedback will let those people feel that they own the message being spread.
10. For sending across the idea, consider reactions from those people who may be willing to help you out with ideas; friends and other contacts can be helpful here. Send out the message to professional bloggers and media personnel as well, to create knowledge in other’s minds before pitching.
11. Get across your message on social sites, which permit you to put a place for people to vote. So reserve those votes for highly important aspects. Also time the launch of the idea for best results.
12. Giving the charge of this submission to friends ensures that your message is submitted at an excellent time, besides getting it a good headline. If this is not done in proper time, some other person may have the story submitted on your behalf with some stupid title and content.
13. While you launch the static site, create awareness even if people know about it. Ask for favor from those people whom you may have extended favor previously.
14. Also assemble ideas of the community in your message. By giving interviews if forming a concern of partnership, it will create a buzz about the timing. Link bait can then be added at a later stage.
15. For getting link bait formatted, easy identification and connection should be taken care of. Tap the emotions of people. Also, you can keep the message such that it appeals to one community and intentionally offends the other. You will get quality links if people fight over what your content is about.
16. Get comprehensible link bait, as more than reality, perception matters. Most content is wasteful as much of the writings have to be edited. So by getting a list of facts, even an incomplete article can appear to be a well-researched one.
17. Ensure that the link bait is easily linkable. Don’t overdo it, but made it apparently well-researched which is attractive than other information.
18. In case of Fame v/s Fortune, Free Content Clay and Micro payments gave importance to authority to get a proper scale for distribution, while making online money.
19. More than direct, link baiting creates indirect benefits:
• Web publishers are those who are attentive to the active parts of the Web
• People may not take to your link bait initially, but it does raise awareness from a significant bunch of people
• Quite a number of search engines make use of algorithms centered to authority, where links of editorials assume importance.
20. A fortnight after launching link bait, my traffic at Google and the earnings on the site doubled, getting me thousands of daily visitors, making me over $100 daily through AdSense, prior to the campaign for marketing.

So by link baiting, you’ll gain enough traffic to your blog, making you richer pretty soon at that. Creating a newsletter shoots up your RSS readers, and gets you more subscribers as well!

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