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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Advantages of using Firefox ScribeFire Extension tool for blogging

ScribeFire as I mentioned in the previous post is a very handy extension tool available only in Firefox user. The advantages of using this extension tool in Firefox is;
It enables you to automatically create a tag in technorati for your post.
You can automatically bookmark your post at del.icio.us using the same tags as your technorati tags.
Automatically enable pings using Ping-O-Matic.
Enables you to automatically publish your content on your blog as this extension tool is compatible with Wordpress and Blogger platforms but there is some issues with regards to Movable Type blogging platform.
I have been using this extension in Firefox since I am a Firefox user.
By using this extension tool blogging is more fun and easy as you don't need to log-in to your individual blogging account in your Wordpress or Blogger.

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Blogging tool called ScribeFire

While scouring the web I stumbled through Mozilla.org to search some extensions that I may use in my internet browsing and one extension for Firefox that caught my interest is this - ScribeFire.
ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog, without leaving the page you are viewing. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post them to your blog.
What this blogging tool does is to automatically log you into your blogging account, but you have to provide your blogging account and password of course so that you can directly post what you have scribble in your Scribefire interface to your blog. This tool is compatible with wordpress and blogger but this does not work well with Movable Type platform.
This post is done using the tool and it saves me time and effort to log in to my individual blogging account in order to post new articles.
This is a Firefox extension tool and you can add this tool, just go and download ScribeFire here

Blogging to get paid: Challenges and Opportunities.

I have just started blogging to get paid and some may not like it especially the big "G" but I don't have to worry about it for the reason that I have already been through with the big "G's" scrutinizing eyes for a long time ago. My account is still active but can no longer be able to participate in the big "G's" Adsense program for reasons they don't have the time to explain why and I didn't bother to appeal.
Sponsored postings though some serious blogger may not like the idea, but based on my observation and while looking at some who have done it poses blogger a challenge and an opportunity.
The challenges of sponsored posting is that it propels your mind to become creative in the sense that it cultivates ideas for you while at the same time on your part how to make your post blend with your subject. Sponsored posting as I see it offers you a concept at their disposal but gives you the space and decision how to make your post blends with the subject of your blog without sacrificing your blog's content and the idea they want you to portray.
Paid Posting offers opportunities to bloggers to earn on their post and makes blogger enhance their creativity on how to conceptualize their posting in relation to the subject of their blog.
As I see it sponsored posting can be use to blogger's advantage but when you select a sponsored posting and opportunity choose the ones that you can blend with the subject and topic of your blog don't rush to earn a lot and sacrificing the content of your blog and anyway blogs nowadays are geared towards revenue generation and bloggers are not to be blame regarding this ideas, since adsense launches the concept of clickable ads everything in the blogworld has changed and we only adapt to the trend and changes.