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Linkbait Articles

2007 February 9
by Lyndon Antcliff

I have read a ton of stuff on linkbait over the past year, I thought I would put together a list of the linkbait articles I have come across.

Problogger
What is Linkbait
An introduction to linkbaiting
Time wins linkbaiter of the year award
20 Linkbaiting Techniques
How to Cut Through the Clutter of an OVERLY BLOGGED STORY and Get Noticed
Factors for Successful Linkbaiting
How to Think Outside of the Box and Develop Attention Grabbing Content
Attention Grabbing Blogging – Persuasive Blogging Part I
7 Ways to Get to the Top of the del.icio.us Popular Page
Linkbaiting with Attack
Motivations for Linkbaiting – Why Links are Good for Your Blog

SEObook.com

Linkbaiting or Link Baiting Strategies?
Digging for Links
Content Publishing, Controlling Costs, Scaling Profits & Link Bait: Being Small & Competing With Big Fish
Linking for Conversion

SEOmoz

The Two Kinds of Linkbait
Rands 13 step guide to linkbait love
The Changing Face of Linkbait
Brainstorming LinkBait: A Four Step Approach
Talking about LinkBait
Action Tracking by Referral Source & the Linkbait Bump
Arguing with Link Moses – This Already Seems Like a Bad Idea
Rands 7 step guide to linkbait success
Results from our Latest Linkbait Adventure
Everyone can Linkbait
Free Linkbait Idea on Web Analytics
Social Media Traffic Isn’t Useless
Identifying the Linkerati
Linkbait Success Rates & Digg’s New, Tougher Algo
Stumbleupon, You’ve Stumbled into My Heart
Talking about LinkBait
A Piece of Content that Doesn’t Deserve to be Linkbait
Clever Linkbait Tactic over at SEOBlackHat
Blog Infected by The LinkBait Monster

Search Engine Land

Linkbait Articles & Is It Linkbait Or Link Bait?
2007 Guide To Linkbaiting: The Year Of Widgetbait?
Are You Linkbaiting The Right Audience
The Links That Can’t Be Baited
Hook Linkbait With The Right Headlines
Matt Cutts

SEO advice: Linkbait and linkbaiting

Search Engine Journal

Linkbait Driving the Creative Side of SEM + How to Develop those Links?
Link Baiting eBook : Viral Copy
Link Baiting Case Study from Search Engine Journal
Linkbaiting for Fun & Profit
Link Baiting Case Study from Search Engine Journal
Link Baiting & Effective Link Building

Link Building Blog

Link Baiting Case Study

Tropical SEO

(sadly demised)

Performancing

The Art of Linkbaiting
How To Turn Link Posts Into Linkbait

Stuntdubl


The Link Baiting Playbook: Hooks Revisited

Link Baiting (How Nick Wilson Created SEO Even Seth Godin Could Love)

Copyblogger

Link Baiting, New York Times Style
Free Link Bait Report
Trading Words For Traffic
How to Write Headlines That Work
Linkbaiting: Vote Yes or No This Week Only
And the Verdict on Linkbaiting Is?
The History of Link Bait
Are You a Link Troll or a Spam Baiter?

Modern Life is Rubbish

What is Linkbaiting?

Cartoon Barry


How Much is Link Bait Worth?

Search Engine Round Table

Link Baiting & Viral Search Success

Jim Westergren

Link Bait

Pronet Advertising

Is honesty the best form of linkbait?

There is more to social media then links
Is linkbaiting a new word for an old technique?

Graywolf

Are You A Master Link Baiter or Just a Flasher
Linkbait if it?s Good Enough for Forbes it?s Good Enough for Me
Ghost Riding the Whip – Insurance Linkbait
Environmentally Friendly Link Bait
The Art of Title Bait

72 Responses
  1. f-lops-y permalink
    February 9, 2007

    This is great! Thanks Lyndon!

  2. February 9, 2007

    Nice work – I figured U weren’t posting it – so I did – gotta spread the love brother…. cheers on the good work— http://www.seoyak.com/story.php?title=Link-Bait-Round-Up

    Dave

  3. Lyndoman permalink
    February 9, 2007

    Thanks, it was quite enjoyable work as I got to read a whole breadth of opinion about the subject.

  4. February 10, 2007

    Hey Lyndon,

    this is really great article!
    i’m gonna keep it and send my friends ;)

  5. February 10, 2007

    Great list. I like the way you grouped it by blog.

  6. February 10, 2007

    I love it! You could call this post a targeted directory of blog posts – a Birectory.

  7. February 10, 2007

    Thanks for the list :P

  8. February 10, 2007

    Great list, I think I might link to it….hang on! ;-)

    I shall spend a while reading this, cheers!

  9. February 10, 2007

    Great list! Wow, you saved me some time ;)

  10. February 11, 2007

    Nice linkbait! Nice listing of all the linkbait one could hope to eat, in a month, nay, in a year!

  11. February 12, 2007

    it will take much time to research all the linkbait links, but it is definitely worth it. thanks.

  12. February 18, 2007

    Thanks for this list. I’ve been researching this topic a lot lately, and I’m always looking for more, and jumping from one blog to another. This is a great list, finally someone’s taken the time to post to a lot of the good stuff all in one place.

  13. March 6, 2007

    Wow, nice list, I’ll bookmark it and link to your linkbait!

  14. May 28, 2007

    This is a very comprehensive list of articles. Thanks.
    m

  15. July 2, 2007

    Wow! That’s a lot of articles. Thanks for the list.

  16. July 8, 2007

    Great list. This list made me think what can I do to get backlinks to my own websites.

  17. July 10, 2007

    What a cheap way of getting 89 digs. I bet it took you some time to compile it though. very useful.

  18. August 1, 2007

    Hey
    Thats very helpful list for SEO own wite :)
    Thx and greetings, Gry

  19. August 16, 2007

    wow, what a list. Copyblogger is certainly a great resource and has helped me a lot with writing titles. There’s no point in having great content is the title sucks.

  20. September 3, 2007

    WoW!!!!
    You rock!!!
    This is enormous!!!
    I can’t believe my eyes !!!
    I knew you were linkbait expert, but not o this extent!!!
    You ust know your stuff perfectly!!
    Pffffou!

  21. September 8, 2007

    Excellent! A linkbait resource article about linkbaiting :). I’m definitely checking them all out.

    Btw, you could order them in terms of Google page rank.

  22. September 27, 2007

    how about writing a list on sites that have articles on link bait… seems pretty valuable to me! lol… seriously thatnks for putting this together for me… now i just need to take a week off to read everything :(

  23. Emmanuel permalink
    October 10, 2007

    Linkbait is a bad or good pratice? Noone can say it…

  24. October 23, 2007

    When you called this The enormous Linkbait List you really weren’t kidding

  25. s_jenkins permalink
    November 14, 2007

    that’s a great list! hey, does google give penalties for the term ‘linkbaiting’?

  26. June 13, 2008

    Thanks a lot for a fine read. SEO and linkbaiting is a touch subject to swallow but your information makes things much easier.

    Keep up the good work!

  27. July 27, 2008

    Wow, Talk about linkbait info overload. Thanks so much.

  28. March 9, 2012

    Hi Lyndon,
    Great informative blog on linkbait and thanks for sharing with everyone. I have bookmarked the link for further reference as useful information must be spread.

  29. October 26, 2012

    Excellent! This is an awesome list still even now when the article was writte a while back. Would be helpful if there was some indication of ACRank or how ‘valuable’ the site is for link juice etc.

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