Behold the King of Linkbait.
Before you create Linkbait content you have to Ingest your Niche
July 5, 2010 By 2 Comments
Linkbait by it’s nature has to be exceptional. It has to be remarkable to attract the links. This of course is relative, it’s relative to the other content which is being produced in the niche you are targeting. As this is the World Wide Web we are talking about, most content is utter garbage. Sure, [...]
iPhone 4 Problems can be made into Linkbaiting Opportunities
June 30, 2010 By 1 Comment
Right now there is a problem with the iPhone 4. Engadget has a nice piece on it. Lets leave aside the iPhone must-buy-on-first-day addiction, which is actually an exceptional marketing mind job although try to find someone who bought an iPhone to say, “dude, I just couldn’t help myself”, what I hear from people are [...]
10 Link Bait Tips
June 21, 2009 By 5 Comments
If someone asked me what are the 10 best linkbait tips around, this is what I would tell them. 1. Define why you want to get links. This will provide information about how to go about it, the more information you have the better. 2. Define who you want to get your links from? If [...]
Target your Linkbait Audience
February 3, 2009 By 9 Comments
Rather than produce your content first and then go look for an audience for it, why not find what the audience wants and produce content for that audience? It’s amazingly obvious and so simple that it shocks me to see that the majority of people blogging, producing web content and even linkbait do not seem [...]
Lloyds Bank is Pants
August 28, 2008 By 2 Comments
Great piece of linkbait from the BBC. Why? It’s great because it got me to link, it got me to link because it both amused and made me angry. At first I thought such silly thinking by a bank should be publicised and I should post about it. But then I realised I had been [...]
What reason does this linkbait give for people to link to it
August 24, 2008 By 4 Comments
An interesting nugget from the forums of Linkbaitcoaching.com “What reason does this linkbait give for people to link to it.” Too often I see visitor bait being created. So you got on the front page of digg, give yourself a gold medal and stick it on your ass. Who are you targeting your linkbait to? [...]
Even the Guardian Gets Linkbait
August 7, 2008 By 1 Comment
The Guardian has run a piece talking about linkbait as if it were an everyday thing. Has linkbait gone mainstream? Jack Schofield knows his linkbait, the piece he has referenced is a cracking piece, although as I speak it has not been submitted to digg or reddit or Stumble, what’s with that? Are they awake [...]
Slagbait
July 24, 2008 By 15 Comments
To be honest I have not used the personal attack hook that much. Not because I didn’t feel like it, but because I think it’s a slippery style of linkbait and one which can backfire easily, as we can see here with Marty and his shenanigans. But hey, it got me to link. And if [...]
Secret Linkbait Formula Revealed
July 18, 2008 By 3 Comments
Want to know the real way to get links?
