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Before you create Linkbait content you have to Ingest your Niche

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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, some niches are more rich and competitive but most of the time the majority of … [Read more...] about Before you create Linkbait content you have to Ingest your Niche

iPhone 4 Problems can be made into Linkbaiting Opportunities

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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 the words, "well I had an iPhone 3 and....." The point I am … [Read more...] about iPhone 4 Problems can be made into Linkbaiting Opportunities

10 Link Bait Tips

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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 your answer to this is, "I just need more links", try to understand that it is easier to get links … [Read more...] about 10 Link Bait Tips

Target your Linkbait Audience

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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 to do it. I understand why this is. I have done it myself, I still do … [Read more...] about Target your Linkbait Audience

Lloyds Bank is Pants

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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 motivated to link to the story. It's distracting to call it baiting as in linkbaiting, but the story made my … [Read more...] about Lloyds Bank is Pants