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How to Linkbait the Forex Market
I’m speaking at an affiliate conference, a4uexpo London in October, so I took a closer look at the main sectors that affiliates like to play in. I have it down to seven hot sectors. Hot affiliate sectors Gaming Forex Travel Mobile comms Dating...
10 Link Bait Tips
If someone asked me what are the 10 best linkbait tips around, this is what I would tell them. 1. Define why you want to get links. This will provide information about how to go about it, the more information you have the better. 2. Define who you wa...
What is Social Media :Part 3
This is an unplanned and off the cuff series I am doing regarding Social Media and its definition, which is still in a state of flux. Part 1 and 2 It’s all about the conversation. Not the product, not the service, and certainly not how wonderfu...
Web Content Ideas
These web content ideas were first published in Linkbait Coaching last October. Note: this was around the Olympics, banks were not yet evil, the £ was strong…etc. Oh how things have changed. What’s rubbish about being British Wired costs...
Target your Linkbait Audience
Rather than produce your content first and then go look for an audience for it, why not find what the audience wants and produce content for that audience? It’s amazingly obvious and so simple that it shocks me to see that the majority of peopl...
Lloyds Bank is Pants
Great piece of linkbait from the BBC. Why? It’s great because it got me to link, it got me to link because it both amused and made me angry. At first I thought such silly thinking by a bank should be publicised and I should post about it. But t...
What reason does this linkbait give for people to link to it
An interesting nugget from the forums of Linkbaitcoaching.com “What reason does this linkbait give for people to link to it.” Too often I see visitor bait being created. So you got on the front page of digg, give yourself a gold medal an...
Even the Guardian Gets Linkbait
The Guardian has run a piece talking about linkbait as if it were an everyday thing. Has linkbait gone mainstream? Jack Schofield knows his linkbait, the piece he has referenced is a cracking piece, although as I speak it has not been submitted to di...
Linkbuilding for Dummies
Linkbait is the honey. Linkers are the bees. The honey does not solicit the bees, it just is what it is. “Long term, promotion of content that attracts relevant links from those empowered to publish will win. The act of linking is performed, un...
Link Bait Ideas
How do you come up with a link bait idea? Ideas sometimes seem to come from nowhere, making the creative process seem like a magical, mystical thing. Creativity does not exist in a vacuum and ideas do not come out of nothing. Good ideas are preceded ...
Slagbait
To be honest I have not used the personal attack hook that much. Not because I didn’t feel like it, but because I think it’s a slippery style of linkbait and one which can backfire easily, as we can see here with Marty and his shenanigans...
Secret Linkbait Formula Revealed
Want to know the real way to get links? Solve peoples problems. If your response is “duh”, give yourself a Terry’s Chocolate Orange. The problem here is, “how do I know what directories to submit to?” This is how. It to...
Linkbait Coaching - Opening the books again July 16th
As you may have noticed I have not been making much effort to sell Linkbait Coaching, the reality is I haven’t needed to. The first month filled up very quickly and I have a bunch of people who missed the frist wave. So I am upping the membersh...
How to get a Snapshot of what is happening in Social Bookmarking Sites
The following is a cut down version of what you can see on linkbait coaching, where I help people develop content intended to get a nice dolop of links, sometimes using social media. Yes, I know you can’t really see what is on the screen and ...
Linkbait Coaching Update
17 people have signed up for linkbait coaching and 3 people are pending, I have closed the program for applications. If the pending applications fall through I will open it again. Thanks all for joining, lots of work to get my teeth into. Lots of fu...
Linkbait Coaching is now Live
Linkbait Coaching is now live at http://www.linkbaitcoaching.com/amember/signup.php Only 20 spots available. It’s $400 for 30 days access. See you on the other side. Lyndon http://www.linkbaitcoaching.com...
Linkbait Coaching goes Live at 2pm
Note: I will be publishing the sign up link for the program here. I will also email it to the list. That’s 2pm UK time which I think is GMT+1. I have only had 4 hours sleep as I had to solve last minute admin problems. I have tested and reteste...
$200 Linkbait E-book Free to Linkbait Coaching Members
Members of Linkbait Coaching will receive a free copy of Patrick Altoft’s e-book, which previously sold at $200. He has removed it from further distribution after it went on sale earlier in the year. Apparently it gave away too much information...
Notorious Linkbaiter Closes the Door
It finally happened. I am closing my doors to new linkbaiting clients. I am only going to be doing a couple a month for current clients. Sorry, but no more. I had to turn someone away yesterday, which was hard. But then I told them about my linkbait ...
How to Take Your Linkbaiting Skills to a Higher Level
Have you ever found yourself asking? I need help with my headlines and I need it now? Do you have any linkbait ideas, the sooner the better? Could you help me build my social network? How do I get a digg power user to submit my cool content? It’...
Linkbuilding Using Fiction
As long as Google uses links to a website to help it rank its search results, people will develop content to attract links. We know that when trying to rank for a competitive keyword things can get a little dirty in the SERPS. People don’t play...
Those Who Never do Anything, Never Make Mistakes
Hands up, I made a mistake in publishing “mental linkbait” here, I think I got swept away on the success of it. The only way to ever avoid mistakes is to never do anything, balls to that. Did I make a mistake with writing the original art...
What Makes a Quality Post in the SEO Space
This started out as a comment about the post, this month in seo, which is an excellent post with a mediocre headline. As I was writing my thoughts I realised it would be better as a post and to give Van Gogh a link for his effort. Lets leave whether ...
5 Characteristics of successful Linkbait
Maki over at Doshdosh has a make money online blog and he has outlined four characteristics of successful linkbait, which got me thinking and inspired me to add my own. What are the characteristics of successful linkbait? 1. A killer headline A headl...
How to be a Master in the dark art of Social Marketing
An SEO pal and client of mine keeps getting banned from social sites as he tries to sell his wares. Dude, I tell him, “you have to get involved”. They are not called social sites without reason. When a search engine optimiser gets success...
The Secret to writing mortgage paying linkbait
Spend a little time. Search for “how to write linkbait”, or “how to create linkbait” and you will soon get hit by a bunch of how to’s. You could bypass all that and go check out my list of linkbait articles. After a whil...
She is Excited and gives her link freely
A potential linker to your website has power. Linkbait, is all about the transfer of power. She has the power to link to you, once you persuade her to link to you she has transfered that power to you. She must surrender, to your pitch to induce her...
Linkbaiting a payday loan site
In an earlier comment, someone asked how to apply the Tao of Linkbait method to a site covering “payday loans”. At first I thought 'the cheeky bugger' and was about writing a smart arse comment back about my hourly rate. But rather than...
Example Headlines for Linkbait Campaign
Writing headlines is not only essential to writing remarkable linkbait, it's essential for writing attractive blog posts. ...
Stick your Linkbuilding Strategy on Crack
Building links to your website or your clients website is essential in any search engine marketing strategy. Getting links to a website is hard work. One relatively easy way used to be to buy links on other peoples websites. However, with Google and...
