In this type of link building, you don’t need to approach any webmaster and request link for your website. This is automatic and effective. This is something like fishing.
You don’t need to run behind a fish to catch it. You just wait with a fishing rod and worm fixed in it.
Worms – The techniques used to admire webmasters
Fishes – Back link for your website from webmasters who admired with your worms
What type of worms that we can use to attract webmasters? Viral content is the effective worm that can admire webmaster and makes them to link us.
Following are the type of viral content we can use in our blog/website.
1) Mathematics – Show your mathematics knowledge in your web pages. Solve some complicated equations which cannot solve by others easily.
2) Interviews – Interview some one who is very popular in your field of expertise. Definitely this will make a good buzz among your audience.
3) Discounts – Announce some valuable discounts in price of your products. This will make your products and your website popular in internet.
4) Be Funny- One of the best ways to create link bait is to be funny. Write something which makes your audience laugh and also to think. Use some comic pictures and funny things.
5) Contest & Awards – Announce some interesting contest and awards. This will sometimes create a huge buzz among bloggers and users.
6) Be First – Be first to write something about the current happenings. Also be first to submit some niche articles in your field of expertise.
7) Controversy – Speak something that is really controversy in your blog/website. You can write anything like “terrorists are must for all countries”. But you have to accept all kind of responses. Even sometimes you may get into critical problems because of these posts. But I am sure that your blog will be very popular due this type of posts.
8 ) Tools – Create your own some fun and cool tools. Give free access to webmasters to use it in their websites but with your link.
9) Free templates/themes – This is a wonderful and very popular way in link baiting techniques. Design some templates, themes for websites and wordpress blogs. In theme footer make sure your link is present. Popularize your theme. This will surely work and get you back some long term valuable links.
10) Statistics – Research a topic that has popularity among people and present the statistics in your blog/website.
11) Numbering – Nowadays the post title with “10 cool tips for __” “20 tips to make you blog popular”. These titles are really catchy and getting strong attention of audience.
12) Quizzes & Prizes – Implement quiz and announce some prizes for the winners. You of must be very smart in the way presenting the quiz and its design.
13) Book Review – Write review about a famous book in your field of expertise.
14) Events – Try to be a official promoter of some popular events. Also be first to post about the event like date, time, place and schedules etc.
15) Tools Review – You may come across some good tools in your niche. Write about that tool usability and its review.
16) Tips – Always give your audience some clear and useful tips to get rid of their problem.
17) Images - This really will create a buzz among your audience. Try to design your own images if possible and add some comic in it with copyright symbol. Ranked Hard website is a good example for this. They are providing cartoon images about SEO.
18) Certification & Exams – Talk more about the certifications in your field of expertise. Explain the cost, syllabus, date and exam venue in your website.
19) Training Material – Prepare a training guide in your niche and give option for free download.
20) Courses - Offer some training courses in your niche and make clear the doubts of your audience through the forums integrated in your blog/website.
I too agree that, all the above link baiting techniques won’t suit for all type of blogs/websites. Implement the techniques which suits to your theme and enjoy with large number of inbound links to your website.
