When you have a website, it is greatly helpful in terms of attracting visitors and search engine ranking benefits to have visitors from other websites placing links to our website. This will be in great help for us to increase the traffic directed to our website and the advancement of our website business and services. However, it is not easy to have people placing links to our site without having proper content and features that they would like to be associated with and which they would like their friends and other contacts to know about. Therefore, we have to shape the features of our website as well as the content to make sure that other people would want to place links to it. This is what is called link baiting. Here are some of the links baiting techniques that you can use.
Organize For Contests
When you organize for contests on your website and offer good prizes for the winners, many people will definitely want their friends and other contacts to know about it. You will be amazed at the number of times your site will be linked to. You often see this kind of contest organized by top bloggers with free iPod, iPad, or any other famous tech gadgets to attract more participants. This is known method for bloggers for link baiting. Sometimes, you don’t need to provide physical products as a gift. Virtual products like discount coupons, domain names, free hosting, etc can also attract participants. Making use of social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Stumbleupon, etc can also help to spread the word out about your contest.
Come Up With First Time Products
Being the first ever site to offer a certain product will lead to an unrivaled number of links to your site as everyone wanting to know about it will have no other place to go to other that your website. Create a product that you are good at with unique details and helpful to the readers. Try to provide straight to the point articles instead of babbling about larger topics. Usually, bloggers will release ebooks of how they succeeded in making first six figure incomes from blogging or similar topics. You can also write a book anything about your niche which is useful to the readers. If you don’t have idea on what to create, then try to find a suitable affiliate product to promote on your blog. There are good paying affiliates that pays up to 75% sales commissions to the referrers. There are a lot of affiliate marketing millionaires who earns easy money by referring only.
Create A Buzz Around Your Website
By coming up with any activity that will stir up discussions and counter reactions in the circles of communication, you are likely to have more links coming to your website. For example, you could unmask a notorious scam, blow a scandal to the limelight or expose the secret behaviors of celebrities and political leaders. This will undoubtedly increase the popularity of your site and so, the number of links. Being the first party in breaking the news to the public, you will get enormous number of back links where whoever writes about it will refer to your site as reference. It is not easy to find fresh news that is not exposed by any but it is all worth it.
Written by Atniz
Topics: Link Building