38 Hints For A Million Link Baits

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I put down and categorized some link baiting tips for you — hope they'll inspire you to make link bait for your particular site. Go through this list — and I'm sure you'll come up with ideas of your own.

7 News Tips

News are great — when something's in the mind of everyone or is about to be so, that's your chance to get some links.

• 1. Be the first to write the latest news in your niche.
• 2. Write useful comments on something that is happening.
• 3. Make a compilation of news stories on a theme. Add a little analysis in there, and you're good to go.
• 4. Make an interview with an authority in your given niche.
• 5. Take pictures of important events and tell narratives about why they are important.
• 6. Take or find pictures of (drunk?) "celebrities" in your industry — could make a great link bait.
• 7. Write an interesting article on a topic important in your niche.

6 Education Tips

Millions of people go online to get a bit smarter. They need to do milliards of tasks that require loads of knowledge. So feed these guys hungry for knowledge, and they'll give you links. Want some ideas?

• 8. Make a list of something — people love lists! 38 Hints For A Million Link Baits is one of such lists by the way :)
• 9. Make a special report on some field related to your niche.
• 10. Write a "History of something–related–to–your–niche" — this can be an ebook or an article.
• 11. Write a "How–To" guide for your market.
• 12. Gather and analyze statistics — people love stats.
• 13. Write a "Mistakes to avoid" article for your niche. By nature, people are afraid of making errors, and will surely look through your warnings.

4 Freebies Tips

I don't want to say people are greedy. Well but we all love free stuff! Give people something for free — and you've got chances to get people linking to you. Examples:

1. 14. Make a free tool that others can put on their sites but that links to you.
2. 15. Make a giveaway practical, useful or even fun tool related to your niche. People may wish to tell their friends where to get this tool — thus you're getting links.
3. 16. Offer scripts for webmasters, or WordPress themes to use freely.
4. 17. Create a Facebook application and maintain it over time. Everyone who's using this application is practically linking to you.

2 Pioneer Tips

Be the first to do something — and write about that. Flying to Mars would be great of course, but there're more down–to–earth things that haven't been done.

1. 18. Test something new that has not been done before — and write about it, or make a video, or take pictures.
2. 19. Research and document something that no one researched before — good if your research topic is relevant to your niche, of course.

4 Ego Tips

Ego instinct can be of huge help to you. When people are displaying or measuring their abilities, or competing with each other, they can be unstoppable. Human ego drives people when they show their success to others. Here're just a couple of hints:

1. 20. Run a newsworthy 'event' such as a contest and set an award for it.
2. 21. Create a quiz, test, or another way users can measure themselves.
3. 22. Ask users to give you input or opinion on a given topic. People may well wish to link to their own comments — sitting on your website.
4. 23. Make an online game — users will be playing and most likely inviting their friends to join.

4 Humor Tips

Who doesn't like humor? Or who doesn't want to tell another friend the joke half the office is laughing at? Or is there an Internet use who never watched a single funny YouTube video? Humor creates the mood, lets us get links, and helps us make sales.

1. 24. Make a funny movie and place it on YouTube.
2. 25. Make images — they're often easier than videos to produce, and can generate a lot of fun.
3. 26. Write a funny story.
4. 27. Use satire: make fun of industry figures, leaders or political personalities (but be careful no to overdo!).

4 Controversy Tips

Controversies work as high–class link bait. Maybe because human mind is seeking harmony? Or because everyone is likely to be proving their point of view until their rivals give up. Who cares about the reason, as long as you're getting links?

1. 28. Write on a very controversial topic, to strike up a discussion between supporters and those who disagree with your views.
2. 29. (Connected with the previous one) Take a contrary viewpoint to a hot topic or recent posting in other sources — you may end up getting a lot of links (and a lot of angry responses LOL).
3. 30. On the same theme in someone else's blog, post "Why <blogger name> is WRONG about..."
4. 31. Every industry has it own myths. Write a story that kind of demystifies some things.

2 Eye–Candy Tips

Make something that just looks good. I'm not saying you should paint another Mona Lisa (though who knows?), but there are things that online community may adore.

1. 32. Make interesting pictures, flash movies or images that are just good to look at.
2. 33. Use a cool and unique design for your website.

3 Generosity Tips

Try helping others, or taking care of environment — besides just doing good, you're getting promoted.

1. 34. Help animals and boast about it displaying images of them.
2. 35. Ask your users to donate to someone badly in need of money.
3. 36. Start a green initiative of any kind.

Blog. Just Blog

1. 37. Run an outstanding blog on your niche themes. A non–commercial blog will often attract more dedicated users than your commercial site. But from your blog, you can send good traffic to your main website.

1 More Tip

1. 38. And one more thing — simple as it is. You can just ask people to spread your idea and tell friends about your webpage. Create a "Tell–A–Friend" page on your website. It works!

After you made a list of some useful tips, like this one — invite your visitors to bookmark and share this list, just like I will do right now.

Found this content useful? Please bookmark it!

But again, I have to warn you. While thinking of "link bait" don't forget about the real purpose of your website and the value it's supposed to bring. Do not overdo — you don't want your site to be an online circus arena.

DO IT NOW! Create unusual content that can be stunning and attention–grabbing: either extremely useful or very funny and entertaining. Think of something unique that people will like to pass on to each other and link to.

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