Tips To Help You Create Link Bait Posts

Link baiting is not an easy task. I can give you all the techniques that I know about and give you all the tips borne out of experience but in the end, it depends on you if you meet success or failure. Still, it won’t hurt to get all the information that you can, right? So here are more tips to help you create posts that, theoretically, will encourage other people to link to your blog posts.

Put yourself in your readers’ shoes…
…and think about what will make them want to share your blog post. It is much like the news, really. You have to find something that will encourage talk, talk, and more talk. I like to think about this as something similar to what goes on at my office. We do tend to talk a lot and when we do, we find stories that we like to share and that others would like to hear AND share with other people as well. That is how you should approach your post. Think about making your readers want to talk about your post and share it with their readers.

Market your posts
Sometimes, your link bait success just might need a little push. You can do this by targeting particular blogs that you think will be interested in your post. You can send the bloggers a short e-mail letting them know about what you have written and saying that they might be interested in sharing it with their own readers. I know that this very much like shameless plugging but hey, as long as you do not do it all the time (once a month or even less would be acceptable in my eyes), it should be alright.

By Sparky in Blogs, Email Marketing, Linking, Marketing

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