Link Bait Ideas

[dhwanit]

If you have a forum then being controversial is the best way to get people posting as everyone likes to put in there 2bobs worth!

yep... Controversial or provocation discussion on any topic may help.

[kraig12]

Thanks for sharing your ideas. proved to be worthy.

[paddy12]

Freebies will always be catchy...

[Victoriawinters]

Hey new to this SEO stuff I'm learning so could someone please tell me what is link bait?
I got a lil teacher but he hasn't got to this yet i want to show him I'm learning

[pops]

http://www.seorefugee.com/seoblog/2007/10/19/linkbait/

Basically, content that other people will want to link to.

[Bjoern30]

Catchy titles

in my humble opinion a catchy title wont cut it anymore neither would freebies or such...linkbait is public relation in disguise. You have to go big or being ruthless like sneaking into a whitehouse party without an invitation (print your url on your shirt forhead etc)

best executed linkbait campaign in a very long time was the australian get paid to live on an island campaign...

[AaronNeal]

I always click to help out the Nigerian fellow who wants to pay me a million or more dollars. I've helped him a few times but I haven't heard back from him yet, I'm still waiting for my millions and my bank says my account has been closed.

[WarnerCarter]

making up a connection to your site and product and a highly publicized events like the Academy Awards.

A real estate site writes about how many acres of red carpet at the AA... Skin care writes about how the stars keep their skin nice under the lights of the AA...

Angelena Jolie is Not a member of this forum.

I read a blog post yesterday talking about a concrete company giving away t-shirts to anybody who gave a link then contacted all the people in their industry.

Something to give it a kick start like a lot of twitter followers or amplify com helps.

I am reading everything I can find on linkbaiting and hope to get good at it one day. Someone mentioned read google hot trends for a couple days several times to get ideas about what seems to grab attention.

[Sadie]

Make a valuable resource (lists, special reports, history of, how to, etc.)
Interview (e-mail/phone) prominent people and publish it.
Build a useful tool
Write an interesting article
Run a newsworthy ‘event’ such as a contest
Test something new that has not been done before
Be the first in doing something on the internet
Write something controversial
Be the first to write the latest news in your niche
Be the first to expose a scammer
Disagree with an authority
Write some funny humor
Make an interesting picture
Be the first to research and document something
Make a theme, plugin or piece of software

[bluefxcoach]

Link baiting is copywriting for the web. It does not necessarily have to be controversial, but it should give the reader the itch to find out what's behind the link.