Linkbaiting refers to the creation of natural and free links from your audience. It is all about enticing your audience to actively link to specific content on your website. The existing social web punctuated with numerous bloggers has made link baiting an accelerator in driving traffic.
Down below are a few idealets on the fly that can get you started on a successful linkbaiting campaign.
- Make sure that your content has ‘real content’ – news worthy, value added.
- Be the early bird with regard to the latest news on your niche.
- Be the new kid on the block with some new facts on your niche.
- Interview celebrities / A-listers in your niche segment.
- Release a theme, plugin, bulletin board and give it for free.
- Generate controvesy.Raise heckles.Be cheekily smart. Or be earnestly honest.
- Run contests, create blog awards.
Lots more you can do if you get stuck by a bold of creativity from the sky of innovation. Yet somewhere down the line, there can be moments when creating viral content might tread on moral ethics. More on it from SeoMoz.