The use of link bait pages have become a very common tactic by bloggers as a means to increase their traffic. It is a very effective method, however it is not the only method and there a few that can provide immediate traffic results and also consistently increase over time. Using the link baiting technique, you can drive traffic to your site without necessarily making use of reciprocal links or even advertising. Link baiting is all about building an interest in something and driving those seeking information on it to your site instead of you trying to seek out people to come. The 7 best things you can do to generate loads of interest on your sites to drive traffic are:

1.  Creating Fantastic Content

If you create consistently great content, you will earn the respect of your peers, and they will link to you. If they like your writing and find it interesting, they will come back consistently so see what else you have to say.
This, however, can take time to build.  There are other, faster ways to get viral traffic to your site now.  Always maintain the quality of your content; it will provide you with consistent and increasing traffic if you’re good.  For an instant traffic boost, try these additional hooks:

2.  Becoming A Source Of News

If you’ve got a scoop, you can drive huge amounts of traffic to your pages.  As link bait, almost nothing works better than the news hook.   If you’ve got exclusive info, and you’ve got it before anyone else, you’ve got a goldmine on your hands.  Having any new information or angle on an already huge news story is also a fantastic way to drive traffic to your site.

3.  Going Against The Norm

Going against the popular norm is great way to stand out from the crowd of an already over crowded niche. You can do this by picking a topic within your niche and disagree with what the rest of the population already agrees on. It of course helps if you really do disagree with it in the first place as it will give you the conviction to stand your ground. Choose your topic to disagree on and be prepared to defend your view. You’ll probably end up with a lot of comments and emails, and endlessly have to defend yourself but you will have accomplished your goal of getting eyeballs and lots of it, i.e. traffic. The great thing about this is that if you do end up reversing a popular stance, you’ll likely end up as the Guru and you’ll become the benchmark of that niche for a long time.

4.  Going On A Controversial Attack

This one is difficult to do properly.  It’s more adversarial than the contrary hook, and flat out sets to attack an already established view or stance.  Do not use the attack hook to attack a person; attacking a person instead of their views or opinions will backlash upon you.  If you’re out to get any kind of attention, even negative attention, it can work.  I would warn most people away from using this one as link bait for their page unless they were 100% convinced of their stance and could support it credibly, and weren’t concerned with the ramifications a backlash could bring.

5.  Capitalizing On Humor

People love to feel good, and humor brings that out in people rather easily. Using something uniquely funny as your link bait is certain to bring in traffic, and it is some almost too easy to do since people never seem to tire of them and the viral effect is even greater as they pass it on to friends to pass it on, over and over. You can use it to drive traffic to your pages. Just make sure though that the humor doesn’t over power and take over what you are promoting.

6.  Providing Giveaways

If you’ve got something valuable to giveaway, people will find you.  It doesn’t have to be something that costs you money, but if you’ve got a free font or some open share software as link bait that’s available for download on your site, you’ve got guaranteed traffic.

7. Becoming A Resource

Why do people use search engines in the first place? The need information, plain and simple, and if you make your link bait into a vast repository of information people are looking for then you will undoubtedly get a stream or traffic pretty much instantly. What resources you use provide on your link bait page can be anything, it can be a list of all the children’s cartoons of the 80’s or a list of the coupon codes, anything really. Just ensure that the resource you are using as link bait is relevant to your niche or to what you are promoting.

In the end, you have a number of fantastic ways that you can use to make your link bait pages become a great traffic magnet. The best way is of course a combination all of the above, and learning that can take a long time…but it doesn’t have to, if you have the resources and the training that capitalizes on these methods. Portal Feeder is one such source, and if you are interested to master these methods then it would be worthwhile checking it out.

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