September 28, 2008 by Admin
You can’t just publish your link and expect it to work. In fact you need to make sure it is seen by everyone who might want to link with it. This means you need sites like StumbleUpon or those mentioned above that offer a great deal of traffic.
You also can’t think that your site is just all the sudden going to be number one. In fact it will take time for you to be on the top of the search engine. You also have to stay actively involved. You can’t just offer a story and then hope your friends will pass it around. You need to allow for a great deal of submissions as well as voting on the stories. If the crowd can vote you get more response.
With these social networking sites you have to build a friends list. By adding friends to your list you are able to get more of a social network. For example if you search the site for more people and ask them to sign as a friend then they have access to what you have published and their friends can then see it from their page.
To be most successful in the linkbaiting you need to understand how the social networking process works. You should have an approach that will work for you. In other words you need to have a few hours a week that will be for maintaining your site such as your profile, your content, etc.
One of the main things you can do is find users who are active that are going to be within your business needs. For example, if you are offering a site on pets you can do a search to add those with pets or those who might need pet supplies to your friends list. This helps you to get more links to the site and it can help you get consumers to buy your items.
When you go this route though, you need to be careful. You don’t want to upset the individual you are trying to get as a friend. In other words you shouldn’t make it seem as though you are advertising. In other words, if you want friends then there should be a mutual agreement as to why you are seeking them. Spending time interacting with the person is mandatory instead of just using them to promote yourself.
There are other ways you can advertise in the social market. Just be careful in what you chose to make sure it will work for you and not backfire.
Linkbaiting can offer an immediate increase in your rating; however it generally takes a bit of time. You want to also look at other aspects of your website. For example you can get the link to help increase your ratings, but you also need the website to be important. The product pages and main landing page will not get a boost immediately. It is just the link section. So you need other strategies for the home page.
Any link that will get you traffic on your site will help as long as it has a meaning to your site. In other words links that don’t have anything to do with your site will not help you. They will hinder you. Any link must be something related to your site’s subject matter. You also need to link the linkbaiting pages to your site.
If you want to increase the homepage site you need to have the linkbaiting site linked to your homepage. Without this link the person following your social networking track will not reach where you really want them to go. You can expect between 10 and 100 natural links to come from linkbaiting if you properly promote the linkbait and if it is created correctly.
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