Comments on: 7 Common Link Baiting Mistakes http://www.revenews.com/ericbrantner/7-common-link-baiting-mistakes/ Discussion of Online Advertising, CPA, SEO, Affiliate and Next Generation Marketing Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:05:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources » Blog Archive » 17 Ways to Accelerate Links to Your Link Bait (and Other Highly Linkable Content) http://www.revenews.com/ericbrantner/7-common-link-baiting-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-21289 SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources » Blog Archive » 17 Ways to Accelerate Links to Your Link Bait (and Other Highly Linkable Content) Tue, 05 May 2009 15:41:52 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/ericbrantner/7-common-link-baiting-mistakes/#comment-21289 [...] Networks (114 IBL) Measure Distribution to Project Content-Focused Link Building (53 IBL) 7 Common Link Baiting Mistakes (22 IBL) Link Bait: The Down Side (10 IBL) What Separates Great Linkbait from Mediocre? (8 [...] [...] Networks (114 IBL) Measure Distribution to Project Content-Focused Link Building (53 IBL) 7 Common Link Baiting Mistakes (22 IBL) Link Bait: The Down Side (10 IBL) What Separates Great Linkbait from Mediocre? (8 [...]

]]> By: Rajeev Edmonds http://www.revenews.com/ericbrantner/7-common-link-baiting-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-20209 Rajeev Edmonds Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:53:46 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/ericbrantner/7-common-link-baiting-mistakes/#comment-20209 Excellent in-deph article Eric. This technique is mastered by very few and successful link baiting is more art than science. However, if you are lucky enough, you first attempt may bring the desired results. Point 6 is often learned by newbies when they see their site down after spike in traffic. Excellent in-deph article Eric. This technique is mastered by very few and successful link baiting is more art than science. However, if you are lucky enough, you first attempt may bring the desired results.

Point 6 is often learned by newbies when they see their site down after spike in traffic.

]]> By: Ken Acton http://www.revenews.com/ericbrantner/7-common-link-baiting-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-19920 Ken Acton Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:13:00 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/ericbrantner/7-common-link-baiting-mistakes/#comment-19920 Interesting post. If you are producing content that is genuine, good quality, well written, and of value then I guess you won't go far wrong. Something worth striving for. Ken Interesting post. If you are producing content that is genuine, good quality, well written, and of value then I guess you won’t go far wrong. Something worth striving for.

Ken

]]> By: yvette http://www.revenews.com/ericbrantner/7-common-link-baiting-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-19823 yvette Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:52:46 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/ericbrantner/7-common-link-baiting-mistakes/#comment-19823 all your points are very good. I am new to this and I am learning all sorts of things of what not to do. Points 2,3,5,7 and 6 are what I like most. I don't know enough yet about bait linking but I will learn and refer back to this to remember what not to do. thanks for the advice Yvette all your points are very good. I am new to this and I am learning all sorts of things of what not to do. Points 2,3,5,7 and 6 are what I like most. I don’t know enough yet about bait linking but I will learn and refer back to this to remember what not to do. thanks for the advice

Yvette

]]> By: TonNet http://www.revenews.com/ericbrantner/7-common-link-baiting-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-19818 TonNet Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:32:07 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/ericbrantner/7-common-link-baiting-mistakes/#comment-19818 #5 Bloggers work without any editor as large media companies do, there is where most of our mistakes fall into. Anyways, we will try to correct those mistakes so see if we can rank a bit better. Thanks for the great post and advice. #5
Bloggers work without any editor as large media companies do, there is where most of our mistakes fall into. Anyways, we will try to correct those mistakes so see if we can rank a bit better.

Thanks for the great post and advice.

]]> By: Zoey Jordan http://www.revenews.com/ericbrantner/7-common-link-baiting-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-19817 Zoey Jordan Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:18:55 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/ericbrantner/7-common-link-baiting-mistakes/#comment-19817 This is really helpful information. Ant makes a good point too, one I'd never thought of: emailing the content to industry leaders. Hmmm. I'd agree that it's not enough to just "tweet" your link or put it on the social media sites. You're likely to get lost in the stream of cyber chatter. I agree with Cathy that the headline being too clever might be a cute hook initially, but your readers are trusting you, and if you venture too far from their expectations, you're taking a big gamble. This is really helpful information. Ant makes a good point too, one I’d never thought of: emailing the content to industry leaders. Hmmm. I’d agree that it’s not enough to just “tweet” your link or put it on the social media sites. You’re likely to get lost in the stream of cyber chatter. I agree with Cathy that the headline being too clever might be a cute hook initially, but your readers are trusting you, and if you venture too far from their expectations, you’re taking a big gamble.

]]> By: Dora Crow http://www.revenews.com/ericbrantner/7-common-link-baiting-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-19816 Dora Crow Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:16:45 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/ericbrantner/7-common-link-baiting-mistakes/#comment-19816 I agree with Cathy T.'s comment that an accurate title is better than the "clever" one. There is so much on the web - you don't want to anger your readers by misleading them. They can quickly go elsewhere, never to return. By the way, I also found this valuable post via ProBlogger on Twitter! I agree with Cathy T.’s comment that an accurate title is better than the “clever” one. There is so much on the web – you don’t want to anger your readers by misleading them. They can quickly go elsewhere, never to return.

By the way, I also found this valuable post via ProBlogger on Twitter!

]]> By: Kevin Tomlinson http://www.revenews.com/ericbrantner/7-common-link-baiting-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-19815 Kevin Tomlinson Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:13:43 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/ericbrantner/7-common-link-baiting-mistakes/#comment-19815 #6- Most people are like yeah right. I did a post and the Drudge Report linked to it---crash server...down six hours! #6-
Most people are like yeah right. I did a post and the Drudge Report linked to it—crash server…down six hours!

]]> By: Cathy Tibbles http://www.revenews.com/ericbrantner/7-common-link-baiting-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-19814 Cathy Tibbles Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:09:27 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/ericbrantner/7-common-link-baiting-mistakes/#comment-19814 Great tips! This is the first of many of ProBloggers link tweets that I clicked on. The last couple of weeks I've been thinking about the relevance of my post titles, how to bait people, and whether or not I WANT to! Sometimes I think the accurate title is better than the clever one. Your readers will like that. Cathy Great tips! This is the first of many of ProBloggers link tweets that I clicked on. The last couple of weeks I’ve been thinking about the relevance of my post titles, how to bait people, and whether or not I WANT to! Sometimes I think the accurate title is better than the clever one. Your readers will like that.

Cathy

]]> By: Ant Onaf http://www.revenews.com/ericbrantner/7-common-link-baiting-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-19809 Ant Onaf Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:44:23 +0000 http://www.revenews.com/ericbrantner/7-common-link-baiting-mistakes/#comment-19809 Great article. I think #4 is an important one, because many fail at their link baiting campaigns because of poor promotion. Many think you write a compelling article then submit it to a few article directories and social networks and you are on your way. WRONG! It usually doesn't work that easily, it takes time, effort, and strategy to get your content in front of the right set of eyes. You want to get your content in front of your target audience and industry leaders so that the content goes viral and spreads like wildfire. I would have to say that emailing your article/content directly to industry leaders is a good way to get noticed, but the content must be targeted and highly compelling (almost undeniable). If a person mixes in all of your above advice and distributes their content strategically to top industry leaders, then I think they may have a great link bait campaign. Great article again. Great article. I think #4 is an important one, because many fail at their link baiting campaigns because of poor promotion. Many think you write a compelling article then submit it to a few article directories and social networks and you are on your way. WRONG! It usually doesn’t work that easily, it takes time, effort, and strategy to get your content in front of the right set of eyes. You want to get your content in front of your target audience and industry leaders so that the content goes viral and spreads like wildfire. I would have to say that emailing your article/content directly to industry leaders is a good way to get noticed, but the content must be targeted and highly compelling (almost undeniable). If a person mixes in all of your above advice and distributes their content strategically to top industry leaders, then I think they may have a great link bait campaign. Great article again.

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