Want More Backlinks? Then Create Linkbait!

July 12, 2010 by FTS
Filed under Advanced SEO Tips

Backlinks are absolutely essential if you want to get a high ranking in search engines for your website. In a nutshell, your website can be put on the first page of Bing, Google, or Yahoo if your customer types in the keywords that you target, as long as you have enough backlinks. Therefore, you should ask yourself: “What can you do to get backlinks from other websites?”

In order to get backlinks from other websites, they must put your link up for a reason – barring giving them money to do so, you are only left with the option to provide fascinating and desirable content on your website that people will want to show to others. Articles, pictures, even videos and games are all content that would work, so you should be sure to incorporate it into your website.

If you produce something that is both high quality and different then people will definitely link to it. This process is called linkbaiting and requires you to produce something that is above and beyond what is available on other websites. The more unique you are with your idea, the better. Remember, if you are churning out the same content as other people then why should anyone link to your site rather than the other similar ones?

There is a lot of evidence as to the effectiveness of linkbaiting, as long as you do it right, and you can save a lot of money with this method. If you just spend a little bit of time getting your linkbait ready, it will really pay off for you in the amount of backlinks you get, which could number in the hundreds, given a few months to propagate the content. Niche-relevant sites will link to you from all around the Internet.

There are those people, however, who are simply too lazy to go through the linkbaiting process, and just spend rigorous hours building manual links that go to their website. While this can also be effective, it is no doubt far more effective and time-efficient than to use linkbaiting – that way other people are linking to your website for you, without any other work on your part.

If you are not sure how to come up with a great piece of link bait yourself, or you do not have to the time to do so, then you might want to consider hiring a company to create and promote some content for you. Such services are well-priced when you work out the overall cost per link in the long run. Just choose a company with a track record of coming up with effective linkbait and then sit back and watch your rankings rise.

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