The Art of Linkbaiting is an article that will suggest some ideas for creating posts specifically designed to attract traffic to your sites. Although the ideas mainly relate to blogging, there is value that can be applied to any website. The word linkbaiting has negative connotations as it sounds somehow deceptive, but it really shouldn’t be.
It’s usually more about writing a headline that functions as a hook to get people to read your content. That headline can be contentious or in some way scandalous but it doesn’t mean that the article to which it leads us to be.
Granted, sometimes writers extend the concept of link baiting to the article itself, which means that they set up a argument that they may or may not believe themselves merely to attract controversy or responses to their article, or even better yet, make it to the top of Digg or another social media outlet!
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do you think that ‘baiting’ is a gives the term ‘linkbaiting’ a bad precedence? it seems that some people think that ‘linkbaiting’ automatically means a trap of sorts. in the same breath, does google penalize for the term ‘linkbait’?