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Using Link Bait To Attract Massive Free Traffic
Here is a technique I have long used to attract massive free traffic to some of my websites. Recently, more and more people are discussing this largely intuitive technique, and giving it a variety of names. The name I most embrace is “link bait.”
“Link bait” is anything that you put on your site that encourages others to link to your site, and then drive massive amounts of free traffic to your site by telling others about it. It’s some feature that by it’s very nature makes others reference your site and want to tell others about it.
Examples of this could be a service that they need to visit your site to access, or an outstanding article that they have to visit your site to read, or even some type of list that they need to visit your site to access.
Examples of link bait that I can think of (actual and hypothetical)… things that would cause other webmasters, publishers, and just people in general to send you traffic include:
– The site http://formatit.com/ has a software utility that formats emails for free. This is where I format all of my ezines and emails to a max of 65 characters per line 😉
– The site http://selfpromotion.com/ has a program that allows you to semi-automatically submit your sites to all of the major and minor search engines and directories for free.
– A site that has a listing of all the major blog directories.
– A site that has a listing of all the major places to “ping” when posting to your blog.
– A recipe conversion chart on a cooking site.
– A chart showing calories burned during various exercises.
– A listing (with hot links) and maybe reviews of major internet marketing forums.
– A list of 100 top rated directories to submit your ezine articles to.
– A list of the 100 most popular baby names.
– A list of foods considered aphrodisiacs… and why they work.
… you get the idea!
If you can incorporate something similar to the above on your blog or site, then after the word gets out, it will be natural for people to link to you. They’ll feel good linking to and telling others about your site. People enjoy appearing “in the know.”
You should do some brainstorming today, and see what ideas you can come up with for link bait to add to you site and then tell the world about.
As I said, it can even be an article. For example, an article on how to really optimize a website, 20 top traffic generation methods, some type of webmaster tricks, etc.
As an example, I recently wrote an article, which I expanded into an ebook called “20 Insider Techniques Of A Super Affiliate.” I recently decided to post these techniques as a 20-part series to my blog at http://WillieCrawford.com/blog/
Once people start referring to this series, it will attract traffic to my blog for a very long time. The key then is to have links in my blog’s navigation that make it easy to locate this series even months from now!
Go ahead… do some brainstorming, and then put some link bait on your site. Then tell a few others and ask them to help spread the word. After all, link bait only works if the word gets out. Once it does, the flow of traffic will become unstoppable.
Using Link Bait To Attract Massive Free Traffic
Here is a technique I have long used to attract massive free traffic to some of my websites. Recently, more and more people are discussing this largely intuitive technique, and giving it a variety of names. The name I most embrace is “link bait.”
“Link bait” is anything that you put on your site that encourages others to link to your site, and then drive massive amounts of free traffic to your site by telling others about it. It’s some feature that by it’s very nature makes others reference your site and want to tell others about it.
Examples of this could be a service that they need to visit your site to access, or an outstanding article that they have to visit your site to read, or even some type of list that they need to visit your site to access.
Examples of link bait that I can think of (actual and hypothetical)… things that would cause other webmasters, publishers, and just people in general to send you traffic include:
– The site http://formatit.com/ has a software utility that formats emails for free. This is where I format all of my ezines and emails to a max of 65 characters per line 😉
– The site http://selfpromotion.com/ has a program that allows you to semi-automatically submit your sites to all of the major and minor search engines and directories for free.
– A site that has a listing of all the major blog directories.
– A site that has a listing of all the major places to “ping” when posting to your blog.
– A recipe conversion chart on a cooking site.
– A chart showing calories burned during various exercises.
– A listing (with hot links) and maybe reviews of major internet marketing forums.
– A list of 100 top rated directories to submit your ezine articles to.
– A list of the 100 most popular baby names.
– A list of foods considered aphrodisiacs… and why they work.
… you get the idea!
If you can incorporate something similar to the above on your blog or site, then after the word gets out, it will be natural for people to link to you. They’ll feel good linking to and telling others about your site. People enjoy appearing “in the know.”
You should do some brainstorming today, and see what ideas you can come up with for link bait to add to you site and then tell the world about.
As I said, it can even be an article. For example, an article on how to really optimize a website, 20 top traffic generation methods, some type of webmaster tricks, etc.
As an example, I recently wrote an article, which I expanded into an ebook called “20 Insider Techniques Of A Super Affiliate.” I recently decided to post these techniques as a 20-part series to my blog at http://WillieCrawford.com/blog/
Once people start referring to this series, it will attract traffic to my blog for a very long time. The key then is to have links in my blog’s navigation that make it easy to locate this series even months from now!
Go ahead… do some brainstorming, and then put some link bait on your site. Then tell a few others and ask them to help spread the word. After all, link bait only works if the word gets out. Once it does, the flow of traffic will become unstoppable.
Directory Submissions for Higher Rankings and More Visitors
Directory submission is one of the best methods to receive one way incoming links to your site. This is one of the most significant parts when it comes to your link building strategies. It is the cheapest way to build huge number of back links to your website, which helps to improve rankings.
A listing is how you get increased targeted traffic and hence increased business. A paid web directory offers a premium service with faster approval times. Owners are extremely dedicated to creating a quality directory and not solely interested in making money. A web directory is something akin to a huge reference library.
Directory listing are a good start to promote a new site. Do not disguise your listing and submit the same URL more than once. Persistent automatic submissions may force to ban you. Avoid using the same title, description, and keywords, it may look a bit unnatural to the search engines to receive one way links from different sites using the same link text or title of your submission. Listings could be done only in those directories which are indexed by the search engines and search engine friendly. Do not submit sites consisting largely of affiliate links.
You should not ignore the importance of doing keyword research before using directories. Develop keyword rich titles and descriptions for each of your listing. For that reason, it is important to find the keywords that work best for your business. Also the ability to use multiple titles and descriptions helps maximize search engine optimization efforts.
Niche listings from niche directories can provide you with great related links. You get two core benefits: Additional targeted traffic from these directories. Quality one way links improves your site ranking in search engines.
Submission of your sites to search engines are not required, if your site has been listed properly in directories then search engines will crawl and index your site. Before submitting a site do a prior check to ensure your site is not already listed there so as to avoid duplication. Each directory has a different way it likes the content to be formatted and submitted. Placement is more effective when proper title and descriptions are selected to relevant categories.
To be successful, these directories must deliver good Google Page Rank or high quality traffic. Niche directories usually do a good job of sub categorizing within the main topic area, making them more useful to the everyday user. Most are older that tend to carry more weight with major Search Engines and have a larger human user base.
If you do not sufficient links pointing towards your site, your website most likely will never be found, that is why should place your site into these directories. Today every business or firm compete with one another in order to generate more and more profit or sales through their websites.
Link Popularity is one of the main factors which tell them how popular or important a website is, therefore it ranks your website accordingly. To get high rankings and more targeted traffic to your web site, it is essential to work out a focused linking strategy to establish link popularity on the web.
Obtaining inbound links or back links in quantity and quality can influence your search engine rank immensely.