What is Link Baiting?

Link baiting is when you post content specifically for the purposes of attracting links. This could be a written article, a video, a free application. This content needs to be exceptional in some way (interesting, thorough, funny etc.) It helps to have a catchy title, and you need to get it seen by the people who could link to it.

Link Baiting is a new trend in Link Building which is gaining rapid popularity because of its ability to get Natural Backlinks and Traffic to one’s websites.
Submit a quality article based on your niche to many article directory site including the link to your website with the desired keyword as anchor keyword in the author bio.

Link baiting aims to increase the quantity of high-quality, relevant links to a website. For that we could written article or some of ads which attracts people to make a link to the site.

link baiting is simply a means of creating content that spreads like a virus on the internet. The materials used in link baiting can provide a valuable information resource to their readers and visitors or it may be just rumor or gossip posted on the web site for the sole purpose of “hooking” as many links as possible.

Link Bait is a great way to increase your website link popularity.
Link bait is content on your site to which other sites link because they want to link back without asking them to.

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Linkbait is essentially a piece of content placed on a web page - whether it's an article, blog post, picture, or any other section of cyberspace - that is designed for the specific intention of gathering links from as many different sources as possible.

With the rise of the blogosphere, meritocracy and social bookmarking sites, all it takes is one interesting page on a site, someone to notice the page, and a few people to share the link - and before you know it, you've accrued a large number of links across a wide variety of sites.

Modern Life is a great example of this - having only launched the site a couple of days ago, our article on common passwords accrued a large amount of interest. According to Yahoo, the MLIR domain now has 1,240 backlinks, all within the space of about a week.

Link bait is any content or feature within a website that somehow baits viewers to place links to it from other websites. Link bait can be an extremely powerful form of marketing as it is viral in nature.

Link bait is content on your site to which other sites link because they want to, not because you ask them to. Traditionally, links are hard to get, requiring you to sacrifice your first born child (and at least link back, which nullifies their value in some search engines.) But with link bait, you "bait" your content and sit back and wait. Of course, you can be a little proactive and get a viral story going, too

Linkbait is content placed on a web page as an article, blog post, etc for sole purpose of gathering links

Well, some really good answers here.

There are a few people (not in this thread, elsewhere i mean), that think badly of
the "link bait" term. This is due in part to the older term: "bait and switch".

I create link bait quite often for my boot camp members.

Anyways, keep in mind that the "bait" is the tasty reason for them to bite.

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It means to create something that naturally attract backlinks for your web page by getting people to talk about it, discussing it on forums, blogging about i, posting it on del.icio.us/Furl/Digg/Shoutwire and linking to it from their sites. It also attracts a lot of visitors.

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I think Link bait is essentially a piece of content placed on a web page - whether it's an article, blog post, picture, or any other section of cyberspace - that is designed for the specific intention of gathering links from as many different sources as possible.

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It is essentially a piece of content placed on a web page - whether it's an article, blog post, picture, or any other section of cyberspace - that is designed for the specific intention of gathering links from as many different sources as possible.

Link bait arms to the links that you see natural, and believe to click on. this is the best link on back links you have. they can lead traffic directly to you site.
Google very like this kind of links.

Link baiting is the latest buzz word in the SEO world and has come to be the preferred way to natural link building. It means to create something that naturally attract backlinks for your web page by getting people to talk about it, discussing it on forums, blogging about i, posting it on del.icio.us/Furl/Digg/Shoutwire and linking to it from their sites. It also attracts a lot of visitors.

Linkbaiting encourage others to link to your website. Linkbait usually happens in your niche area. For example, I write the content writing, copywriting, and blogging on this blog, and if I write something really convincing, people are interested in those things that I want to connect to my post.

Link baiting refers to creating something natural to increase your sites's popularity. It may be the rise to a controversy, some humor, an interesting article, a plug-in or a theme, etc. Means anything that attracts visitors.

I think instant link baiting ideas can work really well but you have to be fast and quick witted, a good example of this was the day Google instant came out someone created an image depicting Google as an instant coffee (caffine and instant)

I feel that although link bait is good, your product and knowledge around that product should be the bait e.g a blog post about how to create really good link bait!

It's the best way to gain traffic to your site.
Much is said that, however, comes at the point of link quality.
If people who propagate the contents are in their area is good. Otherwise, this is good too, but the effect will be low.

yeah, I will say that link baiting is the fastest and safest process to bring the traffic , you just need to have a good content

Link baiting (or linkbaiting) is the latest buzz word in the SEO world and has come to be the preferred way to natural link building.

It means to create something that naturally attract backlinks for your web page by getting people to talk about it, discussing it on forums, blogging about i, posting it on del.icio.us/Furl/Digg/Shoutwire and linking to it from their sites. It also attracts a lot of visitors.

well it depends on how u practise link baiting. if u overdo it then it backfires and it has to be done in a sensible and ethical manner.