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To Linkbait or Not to Linkbait
July 24th, 2009
Posted in Link Building, Search Engine Optimization | 8 Comments »
Before starting with the topic let me give you a brief note about link bait and practices so that you would have an idea how it works for you 
Linkbait is one of the task in link building that takes both quantity and quality inlinks, relevant and irrelevant to your website through various types of tricks and practices.
The tricks and practices are vast enough and it can’t be covered as a theory since all these tricks would differ from person to person ideas and their needs. Few may try running a SEO competition, quiz or awards that represent their business website or blog and few may try writing negative contents on a branded company or about a high profile person around the web so that many would come forward to have the content link in their website or blog in which they may think such collections that would again get them linked from different website or a blog. This works as a chain.
Now one of the most adopted link bait technique is by providing free tools with a code embedded link back to your site or blog and this has been more successful. In fact many SEO companies do linkbating as a service in different forms
To linkbait or Not to Linkbait?
Many people goes with a logic Linkbait by default is something bad, is it so?
Before writing this post I just surfed web to find what bloggers and industry leaders have experienced about link bait. Few were moderate and few feels it has both bad and good
I would say it is how we use, see and perform to the web. We have lot of debate on this topic, still some say it as a spam technique and some say it as a quality information or link distribution. Techniques that are open and user favorable with a link falls under ethical and they are good portion of link bait and techniques that are off as said attacking a brand for their website publicity, hidden stuff and spamming through various means falls under unethical that results bad linkbait. As I have already told it is up to us whether link bait is good or bad. Besides I would like to get your opinion about linkbaiting techniques that you have come across or used
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August 4th, 2009 at 3:51 am
Definitely to linkbait! by far it is one of the most important techniques that really delivers results….
Google sets too many obstacles that make life of starting e-businessman harder. My personal point of view – stick with buying links if you want serious results.
Best regards from Toronto
Mike
August 18th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Google is a contradiction, they try to emphasise that buying links is frowned upon and will ultimatly be removed from ranking algo.
But as mike @ toronto says ‘stick with buying links if you want serious results’. It is the best way to make some sort of impression.
Link baiting works fine, IF your niche is worth linking to and people can be bothered to create a link to somewhere that they will probabbly never again visit.
August 19th, 2009 at 10:26 am
without any doubt to Linkbait because it’s performance is fantastic technically.
August 19th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
@Mike – buying links by blogging, PR, articles, news, plain dir or any other. Which one do you go and performance?
@ranjali – what type of linkbait you go for and how it worked for you?
August 21st, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Actually, this is my very first time to read and learn about “to linkbait or not to linkbait”. Thanks for this post and I somehow understand. Keep posting.
September 1st, 2009 at 1:10 am
I have implimented a few strategies along the lines of this one for mys site. It is not easy and takes time.
But when done right can make up for the highest of quality back links your will receive.
September 8th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Good information about link bait.
October 5th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
I support Mike’s opinion.