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What is Link Baiting?
I am Confusion in this Term "Link Baiting" Is their Anyone Who can Define this Term.
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Linkbaiting is when you publish content with the primary intention of grabbing back links to your site.
Before, link baiting was viewed as a negative SEO practice. Probably because it was used by shady SEO firms that had doorway pages, etc (all those things from 2003.)
These days its considered a viable SEO strategy as long as its done right. For example, you can publish a cool ROI tool, or a Flash game, or a comic strip on your site. The idea is that the content will spread virally and people would want to share it willingly.
Zaki's view on Linkbaiting is right. Linkbaiting is still being practised by lots of SEO Strategists, and has been useful for market development.
Actually the term "link baiting" isn't the best description of what it is. Basically, it's creating content on your site that initiates commenting from your visitors. When people comment, or send a track back, you get a link. So I guess you could say you're "baiting" people by when you solicit comments, but its kind of a nasty way of saying you're in the business of communicating and connecting.
Some bloggers simply ask questions and their visitors reply. Others might create some kind of controversy that makes it virtually impossible for anyone reading it not to say something.
In any case, it should probably be called something more like "link stimulating" or "comment titillating" :)
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