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Link Baiting: A way to attract visitors.

Specifically, linkbait is used to attract visitors to your website or blog whether through interest, anger or knowledge seeking. Linkbait is content that is specially written to either educate, entertain or inflame your readership and prospective readers. These articles create buzz, and the buzz spreads virally from site to site in the form of links and comments that others make about what is written on your site. These inbound or back links are used by search engine algorithms to rank a website. The higher the rank, the higher the listing, the more traffic that arrives at your website. More visitors create more buzz which in turn creates more visitors. Linkbait creation is a marketing campaign on steroids and falls under the task of link building. Its sole aim is to increase the quantity of high-quality, relevant links to a website or a blog.
Linkbait comes in two forms: specific, informative and useful content in a niche market written by an authority or content that will incite discussion and arguments on a given subject. There are different types of how you want to make a linkbait, let's go through some of them:
Informational. Provide any information that can educate and help your readers and can be use as reference. Problogger often provide these types of articles.
News. Keeping up with breaking news on what's happening on the world wide web and the blogosphere is often followed by readers who want to always kept themselves inform of the latest events and trends.
Humor.. Funny stories, bizarre pictures and videos, cartoons and jokes are often helpful as people wants to have some chuckles and laughs to relieve stress and boredom.
Controversy.Writing something unpopular often gets and keeps readers who want to air their views on what you have posted. Rants and raves on something in a negative fashion often attracts attention as people often loves to dispute and discuss things unpopular.
Resource.Creating a specific list on a particular niche is an invaluable resource for people in that particular subject. It helps create a credibility for you and your blog if you provide some resource list on your post and will become a reference materials to readers.

Given this few types of creating a linkbait: Do you create a linkbait when you are posting articles on your blog?
What particular type of linkbait do you use?
How does it helps you in getting traffic?


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