Comments on: SEO Advice: linkbait and linkbaiting

By: Ben Hopkins

Ben Hopkins — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:17:13 +0000

Hi Matt,

Interesting topic but this is just a simple lesson on creating good content and being rewarded with links.

We do this all the time on our blog and it seems to work well!

Cheers,
Ben

By: Subhadeep

Subhadeep — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:10:33 +0000

Hello Matt.

Thanks for the information on link baiting.

Every thing is fine with the concept. But I am a bit confuse. The reason is we often do contextual links for the website. We put relevant content to the relevant website with a hyperlink.

But my pint is, then what is the difference between link baiting and contextual links. Because they looks same.

By: Kane Sherwell

Kane Sherwell — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:28:11 +0000

Linkbaiting is fantastic. Using videos, quizzes, competitions, eBook, etc all great tools

By: Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:19:54 +0000

Link Bait…. Isn’t all “good” web content link bait? Isn’t that what we all want for our websites? for them to be popular? We either do a good job of it or we don’t.

Thanks for the discussion though Matt, always fascinating to hear your thoughts.

By: Gabriel Ryan

Gabriel Ryan — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 05:04:21 +0000

Bunch of thanks for sharing this interesting & informative post, well done.

By: Seo Ng

Seo Ng — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:30:32 +0000

Yes, agree. Not necessary have to present a contrary perspective on a controversial topic. Employ the universal language of humor can be effective, such as
“If you’ve ever spoken in terms of having to ’301 redirect’ your focus from one task to another, then you might be an SEO…”

By: Ilko

Ilko — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:07:36 +0000

I like:
You can be cheeky, like Threadwatch, or you can be incredibly earnest. I give the creator of Google Watch credit for staking out the “anti-Google” territory way before anyone else. Later, Andrew Orlowski probably realized that taking potshots at Google or blogs was a way to generate lots of discussion. By the time it trickles down to sites like FuckedGoogle or whatever, it gets to be “done”-that niche is starting to be tapped out. So how do you take a new approach?
There is always a way

By: Vikas Arora

Vikas Arora — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:34:40 +0000

Link baiting is aims to increase the quantity of high-quality, relevant links to a website. Some time its become lenghty task to full and complicated to handle with lack of fresh ideas.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:33:48 +0000

Hey Matt,

Where did the term “Link Baiting” come from anyway?

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 01:21:53 +0000

Link baiting, well its not really different from the idea of getting more people to read and share your article by having something interesting to say. However, there must be a way I can slag somebody off without making my business sound petty and watch the flow of links to the blog.