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Willie Crawford
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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.
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Willie Crawford has taught thousands how to build
successful online businesses since late-1996. His
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