Comments on: How to Write a Good Link Bait Blog Post

By: nurse V

nurse V — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:07:38 +0000

This is first time that I had heard the term and am doing some info gathering before trying. Sound like a great SEO angle. Thanks!

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seo lions — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:46:49 +0000

Good organic contents get recognized by visitors pretty quickly

By: Canman888

Canman888 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:55:58 +0000

Great post. If I just wasn’t so lazy, I’d write a lot of good stuff. Ideas I have in a bundle, but not the energy to put it down in writing, I’m a sad sad case…

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By: Read Comic Online

Read Comic Online — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:38:09 +0000

quite confusing me. but doesn’t link bait mean for pagerank? sorry i’m noob ^^

By: FameGadget

FameGadget — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:42:52 +0000

Nice tips

By: Dat To

Dat To — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:55:02 +0000

Thank you for this informative article. My friend was trying to explain it to me, then gave up and told me to google it.

By: Ufell

Ufell — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:54:00 +0000

this is realy tips i need. Thanks

By: Fabian

Fabian — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:00:32 +0000

One of the best ways of doing linkbait is writing huge list resources, and posting them in your blogs

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By: Alina Popescu

Alina Popescu — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:47:29 +0000

It’s true, if a blog already has significant traffic, you only have to worry about writing good link bait and wait for the results to come. If your blog isn’t that well known or has less traffic on a daily basis, after writing it, you need to start promoting it through the right person. SU, Twitter, Mixx, Reddit anyone?:)

By: Angel Cuala

Angel Cuala — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:45:13 +0000

Great tips about link baiting, and a good battle between the good and the bad.

I just wonder if Jeremy Schoemaker will also show up here to show his backlinks.

Anyway, I think it is how a post was made that may attract first – traffic or backlinks. And I think the most important factor is the post title, then how it was presented.

I also think a popular blog can do it more than the newbies. Imagine a new blogger with his third post would make exactly like any of the two posts you mentioned. It will be harder, isn’t it?

By: Alex, Blogsessive

Alex, Blogsessive — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:18:02 +0000

dekay: If you’re talking about this post, I’d say none. But, at the same time, could be a bit of both. Meta for the info, 2nd order because it would be good. But, it’s not its primary target.

Rarst: It’s actually a whole series of factors. There are hundreds, thousands of wonderful, possible link bait, articles that have passed unnoticed on the web. On the other side, there are excellent, effective link bait posts on blogs that do not receive a great deal of traffic.

Even a small blog, can create such a powerful link bait.

It only takes guts – for example – to promote your post on Twitter, with an authority blogger. If he/she likes it and retweets it, you can expect a great amount of traffic that will leads to links and comments. I’d say that traffic is only a step, and to answer to Himanshu too, if traffic it’s an intermediary step, you can’t quite walk in a vicious circle.

It all come back to your actions.

Anthony by following the 2 examples in this post, could you accuse Daniel of DailyBlogTips of anything?

Again, it all depends on what does the post provide. If it’s really helpful, why shouldn’t it receive links? If the guy wrote it with back links in mind, does that matter? All that matters is that the provided info has been good.

I think Calcanis took advantage if his exposure and that made link baiting easier. But again, no one forced people to link.

After all, I guess it depends on each person’s level of acceptance.

Thank you all for your comments!

By: Himanshu

Himanshu — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:51:35 +0000

Well, I agree with Rarst, you actually need traffic to turn a post into link bait but the vice versa is also true that you need link bait to drive the traffic. Kind of vicious circle!

By: Anthony Farrior

Anthony Farrior — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:52:35 +0000

Link baiting, hmmm. Didn’t Calacanis stop blogging because we accused him of that? Of course he has over 8,000 people on his email listing so maybe you have a point about good link baiting. Thanx for the good points!

By: Rarst

Rarst — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:52:31 +0000

My only problem with link baits is that they don’t happen in vacuum. I was noting exactly that in comments at DailyBlogTips today.

Awesome article read by 10000 can get lots of links. But if same article is read by 10… Definitely less links. If any.

I guess baits are good for reinforcing traffic and SEO but not really for establishing them. Or more precisely – you need traffic to turn simply good post into link bait.

By: dekay

dekay — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:32:23 +0000

So, is this “meta-linkbait” or just 2nd-order-linkbait?

By: Alex, Blogsessive

Alex, Blogsessive — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:23:11 +0000

Hi Daniel, and since I believe it’s you first comment here, I’d like to welcome you to Blogsessive.

2000 backlinks is a pretty impressive amount, but one well deserved, considering how good and informational the post was. You did an excellent job there, and that’s why I picked your post as a “good link bait”. Because it was truly helpful. Even if you did not have in mind link baiting. The effect was the same nonetheless.

By: Daniel Scocco

Daniel Scocco — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:04:46 +0000

Thanks for the mention.

Yahoo! reports around 2,000 backlinks for that post.