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Linkbait 101: How To Create Linkable Content and Get Others to Link to It

November 28th, 2007 by

Creating linkbait, or getting website to link to you on their own, and with Google starting to devalue paid links, it couldn’t be a better time to start utilizing linkbaits.

Creating linkbait can be difficult and pushing it through can be even more difficult. This post will go over a few of the popular linkbait type (with examples), where to find inspirations, how to get your post noticed, and some cautions to keep in mind.

Common Linkbait Types:

  • Current media, news, information, and interviews
    • Facebook (and its advertising) have been making the news on a daily basis. Our post on Facebook stats this past week attracted links from techcrunch.com, ypulse.com, adrants.com, marketingpilgrim.com, cpyu.org, and a few other small sites.
    • Politics and the presidential election have also been “hot.” Our post on 2008 U.S. Presidential candidates and social networks received 28 diggs, numerous stumbles, and links from web-strategist.com and communityguy.com.
  • Breaking news
  • Humor
    • Posting anything funny, that hasn’t or is just now being widely viewed almost always work. Sometimes posting the new viral video will cause other blogs to link to yours - just be sure to embed the video.
  • Shocking/Sexy

    While none of the above are superb examples (besides the porn industry stats) it goes to show that just about any blog, even if it’s fairly new, can get quite a few sites with leverage (and readership!) to link to the post.

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