The 7 Best Ways To Generate Link Bait Page Viral Traffic

Published By Martin Aranovitch

Although creating link bait pages have been mostly used by bloggers to help increase traffic to their blogs, there are several simple methods that you can use to boost traffic to your sites, both for getting immediate results and also for creating consistent increased traffic over the long term. Here are the 7 best ways of creating viral traffic to your link bait page ...

Link bait is any feature or content in your website or blog that attracts or lures the attention of other webmasters, bloggers, journalists, internet publishers and others, and gives them a compelling reason to link to your site.

In other words, link bait should be interesting enough to catch another person’s attention and entice them to make a link.

So … what kind of things are interesting enough to “hook” someone else into linking to your web pages?

Well, some common forms of link bait include writing a top 10 list, a tutorial or a story that just begs to be shared with others (e.g. a breaking news story, a contrary, controversial or opposing view, a valuable resource, a great piece of humor, etc…). Many times, the best kind of link bait comes in the form of an online tool or a quirky distraction (e.g a clever, funny or amusing video). 

Benefits Of Creating Link Bait Pages

In the realm of internet marketing and online business building, linkbaiting falls under the category of “link building”, which aims to help increase the quantity of relevant, high-quality links to your website. This gives your site more “authority” and, therefore, creates better relevancy in search engine results.

Link baiting is also a way of getting free, “one-way” traffic to your site, since it helps you avoid using reciprocal links or advertising to boost visitor numbers to your site.  By focusing on building interest and driving people to seek out your site, you can minimize your efforts and costs in having to continually seek new people to visit your site.

Ways To Create Viral Traffic To Your Link Bait Pages

For the most part, linkbaiting is considered to be a white hat search engine optimization method (meaning, it won’t get your site banned from the search engines, as you are not doing anything “illegal” to try and game their system).

While the tactic of creating link bait pages have been mostly used by bloggers to help increase traffic to their blogs, there are several simple methods that any site can use to boost their traffic, both for getting immediate results and also for consistent increased traffic over the long term.

Here, then, are the best 7 ways to create viral traffic to your link bait pages:

1.  Write Fantastic, High Quality Content

If you consistently create great web content, you will begin to earn the respect of your peers and others in related areas of interest, and they will link to you. If people like your writing and find it interesting, they will come back consistently so see what else you have to say.

This strategy, however, can take time to build.  There are other, faster ways to get viral traffic to your website or blog now. Keep this point in mind as a foundation, however, and always maintain the quality of your content at a high level. If what you’re putting out there is good (i.e. highly informational, educational, or entertaining), the practice will provide you with consistent and increasing web traffic. 

For more instant traffic boosts, try these additional methods:

2.  News

If you’ve got a scoop, you can drive huge amounts of traffic to your pages.  As link bait, almost nothing works better than the news hook.   If you’ve got exclusive info or an inside story, and you’ve got it before anyone else, then you may just have a goldmine on your hands.  Having any new information or a new angle on an already huge news story is also a fantastic way to drive traffic to your site.

Hot Tip: Subscribing to different update lists from experts in your area of business or field of interest is a great way to help you keep your “finger on the pulse” of what’s new and what’s coming soon. Many times, you will be able to put out a “breaking news” announcement to others before some of the other experts even get a hold of it (they may be too busy working on other projects!)

3.  Contrary

Take a contentious subject within your niche market, and disagree with the established stance.   It helps if you actually do disagree with it. Pick an argument different to everyone else and be prepared to defend it. You may have to spend a great deal of time replying to comments and defending yourself, but this is definitely one proven way to generate large amounts of traffic very quickly.

4.  Attack

This method is quite difficult to implement successfully.  It’s a lot more adversarial than the contrary hook, and directly aims to attack an already established view or stance. 

A word of caution: Do not use this method to make a personal attack on someone; attacking a person instead of their views or opinions will more often than not create undesired effects and can even backlash against you.  If you’re out to get any kind of attention, even negative attention, however, it can work. 
I would not recommend this method for most people as a link bait for their web pages unless they could stand behind their conviction 100%, support it credibly and with verifiable evidence, and not be at all concerned with the consequences that a backlash could bring.

5.  Humor

We have all experienced the endless rounds of jokes on emails, so you know how fast humor can make its way around the web.  If you’ve got something funny, and hopefully unique, your traffic will increase as more people decide to share it with each other.  As link bait, the humor hook is almost too easy; people never seem to tire of them.  Use it to your advantage to increase traffic to your pages.

6.  Giveaway

If you’ve got something valuable to give away, people will find your site.  It doesn’t have to be something that costs you money, but if you’ve got a free font or some open share software as link bait that’s available for download on your site, you’ve got a great chance of getting guaranteed web traffic.
 
7. Resource

People are always looking for information on the web; make your link bait page a repository for great information in your niche, and you’ll have a ton of traffic in no time. It can be a list of blogs in your niche, a list of useful tools or information, or how-to information that’s relevant to your target audience.  You’d be surprised at the amount of traffic something simple like a metric conversion chart can be.  Just make sure that the resource you supply as link bait has something to do with your niche.

Link bait traffic can really make a difference in your internet sales. Why not try link baiting and see how far it can take you?

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Martin Aranovitch is a successful SME (small to medium enterprise) business coach, sales trainer and web business entrepreneur. Visit his site www.SocialBusinessWeb.com  to download a FREE report on How To Profit With Your Own Social Networking Site.

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