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**francesca_luise** · 09-12-2007, 03:48 PM

Can you guys please explain to me what link bait is, its use and advantage
Thanks

**ADAM Web Design** · 09-12-2007, 03:50 PM

Link bait is content other people link to. Its advantage is that you get inbound links that will hopefully generate traffic to your site.

Now...why the question?

**chrishirst** · 09-13-2007, 05:25 AM

To extend on Adam's answer;

Link bait items have to be at least one of these;

The definitive word on the subject.

Written to be controversial and/or contentious.

So badly written and full of errors people will link just to point out this fact. (Might get links but does nothing for any reputation you may have.)

A new or humourous slant on a subject.

and finally:

Interesting!!

**gringo** · 09-13-2007, 05:40 AM

And it's nothing new. People have always striven to write content that satisfies Chris's criteria, only now we have a name for it so we can bandy it around in forums and blogs and appear to know what we're talking about.

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Originally Posted by francesca_luise

its use and advantage
Thanks

Content that is interesting/useful etc is more likely to attract visitors/links.

**francesca_luise** · 09-13-2007, 04:20 PM

Thanks for the details guys..

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Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

Link bait is content other people link to. Its advantage is that you get inbound links that will hopefully generate traffic to your site.

Now...why the question?

Why did I ask,,,, because some seo says that it is one way of getting traffic..

**LadynRed** · 09-13-2007, 04:28 PM

It is ONE way, but that doesn't mean it's easy. A blog can be good link bait, but it helps if the person can actually form cohesive thoughts and put them in writing

**francesca_luise** · 09-13-2007, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by LadynRed

It is ONE way, but that doesn't mean it's easy. A blog can be good link bait, but it helps if the person can actually form cohesive thoughts and put them in writing

Is it like doing a good and interesting content but still have to be related on your site??

**CSS4Life** · 09-13-2007, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by francesca_luise

Is it like doing a good and interesting content but still have to be related on your site??

What is the point in writing good and interesting content that is unrelated to your web site?!

Link bait is having a good web site with interesting quality content on it, which people will want to link to

**Learning Newbie** · 09-13-2007, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by LadynRed

It is ONE way, but that doesn't mean it's easy. A blog can be good link bait, but it helps if the person can actually form cohesive thoughts and put them in writing

LadynRed is always 100 % correct. Except when she's even more right than that. You should take any advice she offers without question.

LNR - Did you used to be an English teacher?

**Learning Newbie** · 09-13-2007, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by whym

What is the point in writing good and interesting content that is unrelated to your web site?!

I'm not tryin to disagree with you, and actually for everybody else reading this, Whym has given good advice, as always. If you have a site that's devoted to auto racing, an article on how to make fresh coffee cheaper is worthless and a distraction. For you and your readers.

But it begs the question: what is my site about, or related to, or whatever? It's a site about the thoughts from Johnny Boy, but other than that, I don't know if there's a cohesive greater whole. I write a lot about the Iraq war, when I can about Mother Russia, American politics, how information works and how the human mind evolved to process information, stuff like that.

Still not trying to disagree, I just wonder since we're on the subject, if anyone has any thought on what subject my blog is on? Because it's so diverse in content, I've always felt pretty free to experiment. People say I'm original, but I even posted duplicate content. A few days ago, I posted a YouTube video of Sublime concert footage, and pasted the lyrics underneath for anyone who wants to follow along and know exactly what he was saying. But then the next post was called National Security Runs on Windows?

Maybe there's just an exception if you start off all scatter brained, you're allowed to stay like that?

**ADAM Web Design** · 09-13-2007, 08:00 PM

I'll also throw my support behind LNR's sentiments. A true linkbait is a lottery at the best of times, and cannot be planned. Relying on other people to spread your message via such tactics is never an easy or safe thing to do at the best of times. That's not to say it can't happen...but would you rather wait for other people to help you out, or would you rather do something to help yourself? The latter is always the easier approach, and the former is just a bonus.

**seolman** · 09-13-2007, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by LadynRed

...it helps if the person can actually form cohesive thoughts and put them in writing

That leaves me out...

**francesca_luise** · 09-14-2007, 03:14 PM

But some says that link bait can consider as spam

**gringo** · 09-14-2007, 03:41 PM

How can writing content on your own web site or the site you've been commisioned to write for be considered spam?

The method you use to drop links to that content might be considered spam, but that's nothing to do with 'link bait'. Link bait is the content. Mass link droppings is spammings.

**ADAM Web Design** · 09-14-2007, 03:59 PM

What gringo said. Good link bait has the property of not being spammy in any way, shape or form since other people are doing your work.

Where are you getting this advice from? Sounds like someone took a few too many stupid pills and decided to tell you his/her view of the world after.