What is linkbait?

There are at least two common definitions of linkbait (or link bait). One negative and one positive. The negative one says that it’s luring people to link to you for a reason they normally wouldn’t. The positive one explains that linkbait is a highly linkable masterfully crafted peace of content people not only like but also recommend to others by linking.

on the positive side, it can be also called as a guest blogging stuff.

Linkbait is essentially a piece of content placed on a web page - whether it's an article, blog post, picture, or any other section of cyberspace - that is designed for the specific intention of gathering links from as many different sources as possible.

So is linkbaiting a technique or a side effect of good article writing? Well, in our case we presented some interesting, original research in an interesting and digestible way - the ever-popular top 10 list. A quick submission to Digg, a meritocracy and social-based tech news site, and a few positive 'Diggs' from the users there, we broke the front page, and was subject to a massive surge in traffic, and perhaps more importantly, a massive influx of inbound links.


With the advent of constantly-updated blogs and the thirst for news that has grown with it, current affairs can be a good source of links. Many of the meritocracy sites, including Digg and Newsvine, have a predominantly news-oriented approach to their content.

If you can cover a news story whilst it's still a current event, and publicise the link to enough people, you should be able to gather traffic and links as people spread the word and link to you. If you're lucky enough to have a sector with an established

Link baiting is the best effective way to make more links from the site's you wanted to place your links this is the best strategies before but I think this time this strategies wont work very well most of the sites owners knows more of this.

Link bait is content on your site to link to other sites because they want to, not because they are asked. But the link bait bait your content and sit back and wait.It is all about writing content to a website that generates interest and curiosity of others.

i heard this thing first and thanks for sharing information about link bait.

If I could do something better, a better and better as link bait. controversial issues seems to be a good start, but it is sometimes difficult if you try to please too many people, not hurt feelings.

linkbaiting is beautiful way to get relative links in linkbaiting what you do you write 70 to 100 words of [FONT=&quot]description[/FONT] and give link from this [FONT=&quot]description[/FONT] and post this description on blogs or your partner website

someone please explan me what really is this?
I could not understand its process yet