Is link baiting something more than good content?

Hi, everyone,

I've read lately what I could find about link baiting. I understood the concept, but I can see link baiting just as good and original content. I think if you write some documented original good content, you can call it link baiting.

Is it something I miss regarding link baiting?

At days end... "anything that attract links easily & naturally would be linkbait".

The very best linkbait would have these 3 prime characteristics:

• short supply
• high demand
• difficult to find

Yes... To start with "good" is a very value laden word and quite subjective. The content needs to be things other websites would find desirable to link to. So rather then "good" I would say "usefull" or "interesting" are more important than "good".

The nect part of the baiting process is relevance ... You are fishing for relevant links. These links help more then irrelevant ones (all inward links help to some degree) Non relevent links help to increase your trust rank but do little for theme or topic relevance. Relivent links help both trust and relevance and thus do more for your SERPs on the whole.

The final part of the baiting process is finding the fish. You need to let sites that may bite your bait know about it. You must get the message out there about your useful and/or interesting resource...

Good luck on your fishing ...

Thanks

I found on one site some <strong>recipes</strong> for baiting links:
News Hooks - fresh news diluted and with a personal interpretation
Contrary Hooks - combating someone or some company statement
Attack Hooks - similar to the previous one.
Resource Hooks - all kind of the compilations
Humor Hooks - something very funny

Link baits should be:
1 short supply
2 high demand
* difficult to find
3 relevant: to bring you relevant links


I think the list is much bigger. I assume the articles high ranked on digg and other social bookmarking sites are the best examples of link baiting.

Good Link baiting is viral? I assume so...

This is one time you don't really care.

You're not chasing links they are coming after you... and because they are you will receive many that are immediately relevant, many that are a close relevant, many that are fairly relevant and many that are of no relevance... but it doesn't matter cause you didn't waste your time on the latter.

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