What is link baiting?

[beargy11]

I do not know, but I get the sense that it is almost like doing something just to draw attention to your site ... such as, writing a controversial article with a link to your site just to drive traffice there ... maybe I'm wrong about that, but that is what it seems to mean to me

[info02web]

Link Bait is all about asking for links from u r known social circle thru social networks blogging etc

but do not expect the courtesy of getting back a link since it is a laid back job for them

[SmithJones]

Link baiting is a piece of content placed on a web page - whether it's an article, blog post, picture, or any other section of cyberspace - that is designed for the intention of gathering links from as many different sources as possible.

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[monica34]

This is a quote from the SEO Dictionary you can find under the Free Tools Tab on this forum. Seems pretty useful - You should check it out.

Link baiting is the creation of content that incites users to link to your page from another website. The types of link bait vary tremendously, but they include highly informative articles or news stories, useful resources and sometimes controversial or sensationalistic content. Link baiting is a White Hat SEO technique used to help a site improve its Link Popularity and Page Rank. Some sites use link baiting as the centerpiece of a Website Marketing campaign.

Absolutely right! Link baiting is quite helpful in SEO, but for that your quality of content should be very good and interesting for other people.

[perfectionsu]

Link baiting is any content or feature, within a website, designed specifically to gain attention.Link Bait is all about asking for links from u r known social circle thru social networks blogging etc

[Cameronwhite]

Link bait is essentially a piece of content placed on a web page - whether it's an article, blog post, picture, or any other section of cyberspace.

[sarkarinaukriwala]

Link bait is content or feature within a website, designed to attract attention or to encourage others to link bait website.Link baiting is interesting enough to catch attention.Link baiting is a very powerful form of marketing.

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[ewebmaster]

Link bait is any content within a website, designed specifically to gain attention of others to link to the website.
Link baiting is the process to do it:)

[dianecoleen]

Link bait in simple words is a piece of content that used to attract peoples attention. This can be used through blogging, social media or any other submissions you are doing. Also, a good link bait is an advantage of increasing your website traffic.

[curtis1]

Link baiting is a tool many bloggers and businesses use to increase the number of inbound links pointing to their website across the world wide web. In the long run, a good number of quality links with proper anchor text from various sources will have a positive and lasting impact on your search engine rankings for those terms.

[Robin]

link bait is any content or function, within a web page, designed particularly to obtain attention or motivate others to connect to the web page.

[JasonBorder]

It is a feature of any website to attract user attention.
Matt Cutts defines link bait as anything "interesting enough to catch people's attention. ...
This is a process which you can attract more people to your website. And get high traffic.

[adiba]

The process of establishing relevant, inbound links to your website which help your website achieve higher ranking with the major search engines and drive targeted traffic to your site.

[richardhale]

High quality content is your best link bait. You have to make your content worth reading and valuable. I read a great article, I don't have the link. Anyway, some case studies have shown that first page ranks average around 2,600 words per that specific page. Long content has its pros and cons. Most people don't want to read 2K+ articles. Smaller content can get ranked if it has value. It's the classic argument of long content vs. quality content. If you create unqiue, helpful informative articles, others will link and you'll pull in higher quality links.