Link bait - creating something viral that will make other websites link to you as the source of something that catches up others interest.

Writing something that is very confrontational, extreme for the sake of getting backlinks, perhaps a faked image involving a celebrity

Or within a niche, writing something extremely harsh and provocative about a well known subject such as "8 reasons why ... is doomed to fail / sucks / is the worst ... under the sun"

doesnt need to be viral. thats just one type of link bait. It pretty much is any content, program, tool, image ect that you make in order to get a link from another site. Like there could be a weight loss site that needs a animated image of someone loosing weight. The webmaster might not know how to do it but you can outsource it and give it to him for a link. Wala Linkbait.

Something viral in nature, maybe a content, image or video in nature that gets the user's attention. This is a bit risky though, it is a hit or miss tactic.

Link baiting is the most excellent complete method that is make to be really competent in building better number of high value one way links that are known in a normal way. It is also used in search engine optimization, as it is an authoritative tool and can useful a site that has less famous keywords than typical.

Link bait is a piece of content placed on a web page - whether it's a useful article, a unique blog post, picture, that people react to by linking to or sharing with others.

Link bait is any content or feature, within a website, designed specifically to gain attention or encourage others to link to the website. Matt Cutts defines link bait as anything "interesting enough to catch people's attention." Link bait can be an extremely powerful form of marketing as it is viral in nature. The term often has a negative or dismissive connotation. The content for link baiting would be a text, image, audio or video clip and it interesting enough to catch people’s attention.

Link bait is something different content and refers to a placement on a website for the strict purpose of tempting other web pages to link to that website. Link baiting is a viral marketing form, and can be extremely powerful, as it draws traffic to a website without keyword searches or specific searches for that web page.

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Link bait is content on your site to which other sites link because they want to, not because you ask them to. Traditionally, links are hard to get, requiring you to sacrifice your first born child (and at least link back, which nullifies their value in some search engines.) But with link bait, you “bait” your content and sit back and wait. Of course, you can be a little proactive …

In simple Language, If you publishing or copying another website's content or article you should mention reference of them. If you are trusted so you have to do it for others.

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

LinkBaiting Helps in following ways from SEO point of view :-

It creates more links to your site, which help you in the search engines. Furthermore, these links come to you — you don’t have to get on your knees and beg for them.

It creates more links to your site, which send potential customers your way. After all, the whole purpose of SEO – coming up high in the search engines – is about reaching more people.

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