Get A Win Win Situation With Articles And Linkbait
August 9th, 2009 by Bruce

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Articles, whether your own or ones you get from a credible article writing service, are a way to feed the linkbait machine.
What’s linkbait you might be asking at this stage?
In a nutshell it’s content created with the specific point of attracting links to your site.
Even Google considers linkbait with some good will. Matt Cutts, Google SEO expert thinks that if great content catches people’s notice then that does not need to be a bad thing.
He carries on to assert that articles might have great data or insights, can be creative or be arguable to generate debate.
The key here is the word content.
In order to attract top quality and natural links back to your site you’ll need to make high quality content. These are some ways to go about it, wheter you are using an article writing service or not.
Hand out some good data
Everyone is looking for good information that helps them with whatever they are doing. Content that provides a relevant list of resources will attract interest and links back. Readers are in particular curious about lists on how to do stuff, where to find stuff and in general the short form of data sharing.
Tickle the self-esteem spot
It is a rare individual who does not want to read about themselves. So create a chance to interview folks and write a great article on it or perhaps just post the transcript if it’s’s a video you’ve posted on YouTube for instance. Interesting and famous folks will attract a lot of attention and will bring links back.
Folk like to associate with celebs in the hope that some of the celebrity will rub off on them. Linking back to your article on a famous person or a chat with a vital person whether in the entertainment world or in your niche, will create natural interest and links back to your article.
Tread on some toes
Nothing stirs up the blogospere as much as a little bit of debate. Put out a idea that may make folks think and consider their private position and youmay find that not much will get a heated debate going.
Most frequently people tend to disagree themselves into a position of robust opinion, which they may not actually have had at the start of the argument. Provided everyone stays respectful, and the trolls can always get removed off the comments page, a raging debate can attract a reasonable number of link love.
Get agiggle
Be funny. Or share something funny that you have spotted somewhere else. Everyone, well most people anyway, enjoy agiggle. It lightens the mood, it makes the happy endorphins jump around and make you feel better. And happiness is contagious, so a Harvard study maintains.
Linkbaiting somehow sounds like a bad thing. But it isn’t. If you use your articles to create content that folks are truly curious about, stimulate debate, make them have a laugh and even strokes their egos a bit and it gives you links from other sites then it is a win win situation for all.
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