Comments on: Link Baiting

By: Eileen

Eileen — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:00:57 +0000

Great ideas, from the expert. still learning, I find it so hard to get traffic, but one day. thanks mark.

By: JayStar

JayStar — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:14:03 +0000

Link baiting? Never heard that term before but I agree with you on the approach it seems odd to submit your own work to the social networks etc unless its monetised and the back links will def help.

By: Ephena

Ephena — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:25:17 +0000

Viral marketing is definitely the way to go. Thanks for the heads up.

By: Mark Knowles

Mark Knowles — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:42:00 +0000

Thankis – I will

By: Amy Derby

Amy Derby — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:36:18 +0000

Feel free. I stole it from a lawyer.

By: Mark Knowles

Mark Knowles — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:47:26 +0000

Inspired Rants – Love it ! I may have to pinch that term

By: Amy Derby

Amy Derby — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:10:21 +0000

I can’t say I’ve mastered link-baiting yet. At least, I’ve never written a blog post hoping it’ll bring me lots of links. The posts on my blogs that draw in a lot of traffic (often from Stumble) are usually posts like yours — inspired rants, I call them.

By: Link Building Matters - Really!!!

Link Building Matters - Really!!! — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:01:26 +0000

[...] Getting listed in one of the various Web directories such as the Open Directory Project can also get you an inbound link that Google has deemed important. You can submit your blog to one of the categories they list, and if you’re approved, you’ll get a nice bit of Google juice. Another good method is to employ some good link baiting tactics. Checkout Marks post for more information on Link Baiting. [...]

By: Querblogger

Querblogger — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:08:44 +0000

Hi,

I personally haven´t done any kind of link baiting so far, but anyway, just yesterday I got an immense traffic hit from StumbleUpon because one person has submitted my blog to it. I got over 300 unique visitors within the first 3 hours (you must know, my blog isn´t that popular and usually gets only 50 to 100 visitors a day )

So, I think it would be a nice idea to start doing some link baiting too to get even more free traffic…

Bye,
Querblogger

By: Blogging For Big Bucks

Blogging For Big Bucks — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:31:30 +0000

[...] Check out Mark’s post on Link Baiting to gain more incoming [...]

By: Mark Knowles

Mark Knowles — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:01:15 +0000

Yes, it’s odd – some posts I think I have hit the spot and get no traffic from them and others just take off. Fickle is the word I’m looking for i think.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:59:47 +0000

I agree that it’s odd what articles on your site people like. Sometimes you spend a while creating an article that few people link to, other times, an article that you think wasn’t particularly interesting gets picked up by lots of sites.

Personally, I wouldn’t submit any of my own content to any of the social news and bookmark sites (or ask other people to submit for me). I do like using them though as you can read some interesting ideas you wouldn’t normally come across otherwise (especially on StumbleUpon)

By: Mark Knowles

Mark Knowles — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:33:45 +0000

Thanks lonnie and Reed – Nice to know there are some readers out there – I always know I have hit the spot when my blog posts start to attract the spammers

By: lonnie

lonnie — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:01:44 +0000

I loved the article. I find I get big traffic spikes hen people submit my stuff to fark and digg.

By: Reed

Reed — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:04:50 +0000

Thats cool about the stumble traffic, sounds a lot like doshdosh.com, he writes articles and doesn’t even worry about seo’ing. Seems to be a good tactic, I’ve had other blogs link to one of my articles where I bash article directories, but nothing that has been stumbled and drew in phenomenal traffic.