Linkbaiting is more an art than work. There are lots of linkbuilding techniques out there and people have asked me over and over again about which is the best one. Personally I’d say linkbaiting would be one of your best shots – if you have the knowledge and talent to make it work.
It’s more than just blogging
Creating a link bait is creating a compelling movement that will stir your readers to think and link back to you for reference, sourcing or good-will. It is more than just writing. It is more than just giving out information. It is more than just wit. It is the ability to tap into the emotional source of your readers and use that leverage to draw them to link to you.
Usually knowledge works great in the field of linkbaiting. If you know some things that a lot of other people do not, you can write about it and publish it and attract a crowd. But that’s just a part of it. How you lay it out and how you artistically put words to your knowledge needs talent. You need both to make a good linkbait.
Some linkbaiting techniques that work well:
Guest posting
Or known also as guest blogging – this method has been a good way to get inbound links. Making your website open to guest bloggers means that you get new content (make sure that it’s relevant and well-written) and on top of that, those bloggers would love to promote the article they wrote for you. Which means that you save up time on writing an article and you save up double the time promoting it.
Of course, during the course of the promotion, chances are, the ones who wrote that guest post for you would most probably link to that article – simply because they wrote it and they are proud of it. Oh by the way, SEO Hacker is open to guest posting in case you didn’t know.
Having guest posters in your blog means that you somehow reach out to them too. If you want other people to guest post in your blog, you have to guest post in other blogs yourself. Of course during the course of guest posting for other blogs, you build backlinks in your guest posts and you build authority in your niche.
The most beautiful thing about guest posting is that you build your network. You build your name in all the other blogs in your niche as a good writer and contributor with knowledgeable mastery of the topic and the talents to lay it all out with spunk. Other people will recognize you. Blog owners will recognize you. And you’ll get invited to many more other websites to guest post in. Which, in turn, means that other people would be attacted to guest post in your blog soon – coz you’ve got a lot of linkjuice!
Infographics
Nothing beats good statistics – especially surprising ones summarized in an infographic. This linkbaiting technique goes a long, long way. Especially if you keep on updating your infographic or other people’s infographic of your topic or niche. Search Engine Land did an infographic of SEO Ranking Factors in 2011 using a periodic table. That’s pretty interesting. And they certainly got a lot of backlinks using that infographic. In fact, they got lots from me.
Why does infographic attract lots of links? Well, not all people like to read. Which means that most people prefer pictures or perhaps video or whatnot. In any case, a beautifully designed and outlined infographic has much more appeal than a long paragraph of words. Don’t you think so?
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Link Baiting Techniques
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Let's say Im 17 now and have been with the same person for almost the past 3 years now. Yes, not continuously. We've had our up's and down's but we're still together. Now, we both have trust issue's with each other, is the relationship still worth saving?
Is it a relationship from God? Does your parents approve of it? Do you have their blessing? Is this person someone you want to spend the rest of your life with?
Is love a result of some kind of chemical reaction in our body? I've been wondering about that for ages
No. Real love is a result of knowing Christ and following Him :) Once you know that real love, you can give it to other people.
is it honorable for a man to tell a woman what he feels about her (he likes her) but is not ready to court her yet? or should that man act like a man and wait for the right time until he is decided and committed?
I personally think that he should wait. That way, there is purpose and it can be achieved.
Why your Sex Life Disappoints You
The question is, are you doing it right? But let me elaborate that question further.
“For many people, certainly, sex is the most powerful and moving experience that life has to offer, and more overwhelmingly holy than anything that happens in church. For great masses of people, sex is the one force which can actually tip men and women completely off their accustomed centers of gravity and lift them, however briefly, right out of themselves.” – Mike Mason in ‘The Mystery of Marriage’
Sex is something that people describe as ‘amazing’, ‘wonderful’, ‘out of this world’, and the list goes on. Why then, is that so many people, after having that ‘out of this world’ experience, find themselves empty, wanting and perhaps aching as a void subtly nudges somewhere in their soul?
Am I doing it wrong?
This is the question that so often pops into mind after that aching, empty feeling. Perhaps you’ve had sex. Perhaps you’ve had one of the best ones in your life thus far. But somehow, someway, you feel that something in you is not right.
Let me tell you what you’re doing wrong.
You meet someone. You fall in love. The passion and fire burns between your romance, and then, by some compelling, fleshly urge, you have sex.
This is wrong.
So let me tell you how to do it right.
Sex is designed.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Why do you need a Facebook App? Facebook app vs Facebook page
Why do you need a Facebook App? Why not just let your Facebook page do all the work for you? You can run contests in your Facebook page too can you not?
The Old Way
Before when you wanted to run a contest, you have the freedom to easily administer it in your Facebook page – let’s take a photo contest for example.
Usually, you just need to announce in your Facebook wall that you’re going to run a contest and post the mechanics in your Facebook page Notes section for all to read. Then as you start the contest, you make it a Voting contest – the photo with the most Facebook ‘Likes’ win.
The good thing: you can get ‘n’ number of likes using this method.
Easy, simple, and most of all it’s free because you don’t need to hire a developer nor a designer. But that’s not the case now.
Having your own Facebook app is almost a necessity right now if you want to run Facebook contests and accumulate more page ‘Likes’. The reason behind it is that you cannot run contests in Facebook anymore without a Facebook app as seen in the Facebook Promotions Guidelines below (taken from Facebook Promotions Guidelines):
