7 Ways To Make Your Link Bait Page Become A Traffic Magnet
While link bait pages have been a tactic mostly used by bloggers to increase traffic, there are methods that any site can use to get a boost in traffic, both for an immediate results and consistent increased traffic over the long term. Link baiting is a way of getting traffic to your site without using reciprocal links or advertising. It is about building interest and driving people to seek out your site, instead of you seeking out people. The 7 best ways you can generate interest and in turn drive traffic are :
1. Write Fantastic Content
As the saying goes, great content is just that great content. If you can consistently create content that is relevant and timely then you will earn the respect of your peers and in return they will link back to you. If your style of writing is something they find interesting and like, they will keep coming back to see what more you have to say.
Like many great things, it does take time to build a source of great content, but if you continue to strive in bringing quality content to your readers then over time you will consistently build increasing traffic. There are however other ways that you can quickly bring traffic in i.e. a traffic boost, and the these succeeding methods are examples of this.
2. News
The newspapers have done it for decades; if you have a breaking scoop in your lap you can use it to drive insane amounts of traffic. The news hook method of driving traffic works better than pretty much any link baiting method. Having exclusive information in your hands before anyone else is literally gold and if you are able to publish this, you’ll have a huge traffic rush to your page. One way you can drive traffic to your site is to have new information or a fresh angle on an existing big story.
3. Being On The Contrary
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. Attack
Much more adversarial than the contrary method, this hook lays down a direct attack on an already established norm or view. This is sometimes hard to do properly, but remember never to attack a person or establishment directly, instead attack the view or perception instead. Doing the former could lead to a huge backlash against you. While this has the makings of potentially huge traffic, I would warn you that using this as a link baiting method should not be done unless you are totally convinced of your position and actually have solid and credible data to back you up should a backlash against you happen. *Warning – not for the light of heart*
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
Why do people love Santa? Because he gives stuff away! Having something to giveaway means traffic, people will find you if you have some freebies. What you give away does not necessarily be have something you need to spend money on, you can give away a list of of something or a free open source software that’s hard to find. People will keep coming back to you looking for more freebies that you would give way.
7. Providing 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.
