With such a powerful tool as Link Baiting why to bother with searching for any links to your website, adding it to article and general directories, spending money on buying links? Forget about it, get one way natural links that will push your website to the top of search engines and social websites.

So, with link baiting all you need is to create some great content or an online tool, post it on social bookmarking websites: enjoy traffic and generate income.

Social bookmarking – you save your bookmarks to some public website that makes your bookmarks available to other members. You also tag your bookmarks with keywords – relatively new way of information classification. This website members search the information by tags, popularity or person.

Unfortunately, it is not so easy. But let’s start from the beginning.

Rand Fishkin defines link baiting as content targeting link friendly audiences. Very precise definition. Link friendly audiences – who are they? Bloggers and forum posters.

Rand who is one of the best link baiters offers his algorithm to succeed with this marketing technique:

1. Browse popular social bookmarking websites (del.icio.us, digg.com, stumbleupon.com, netscape.com, etc) and research what people tend to bookmark in your niche.

2. Brainstorm for 10-15 ideas for content or tools. They should be unique and appealing to your niche users. It is the hardest part: how to know that this information will appeal to link friendly audience? Answer: by trial and error

3. Develop a catchy title

4. Add web 2.0 look and feel features

5. Remember to add viral elements: ‘e-mail your friend’, ‘add to a bookmarking website’

6. Test if everything is fine and add the link bait to social bookmarking websites (list of most popular social bookmarking websites)

7. Be prepared: not every piece of your work is likely to become a true link bait. Also expect some criticism from community – there will be some persons who are likely to discover some weak points in your work.

I have been testing the algorithm for a few days. I did not make it really big, but a simple post ‘where to buy domain names’ brought me alone about 1,000 unique visitors a day. It is a record for my website. The visitors neither clicked AdSense ads nor were interested to buy any products/ services displayed at the website, but it is great from branding point of view. And it is time to turn to ‘old and good’ CPM advertising (CPM – banner impressions).

Summary: I have really experienced the power of bookmarking websites: they bring you traffic, generate new links (not yet any evidence in my case), a great branding tool. They make you less dependent on natural search engine traffic. And it is the greatest advantage to new websites that endlessly complain of Google sandbox.

It is not that simple to create a working link bait, but it is a much easier task than to get your website to Google top 10.

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In this post I have mentioned two ways webmasters generate income from MySpace – easy and fast ways to get some cash.

One more way to use MySpace for your forum launch (it will definitely bring you new registered users and quite a few will likely to start posting):

a. Find those who owns a MySpace account with a considerable amount of friends (min a few thousands) and offers to send out your bulletins to their friends. You will easily spot those who will do it for you for some fee here:

www.sitepoint.com
www.digitalpoint.com
www.earnersforum.com
www.wickedfire.com
www.websitepublisher.net
www.screennameforum.com

or anywhere else.

b. Negotiate the price (be prepared to pay max 10.00$ for 1,000 list of friends).
c. Design and supply a catchy bulletin copy, thoroughly think of the title.
d. Observe the results of the bulletin action. Repeat a) – d) steps if you are happy with the results by sending your bulletin to a bigger amount of friends.

There are some issues that you should keep in mind: you should be careful about the reputation of a MySpace account holder. How can you make sure that you get what you pay for? At least, try to check this person reputation on the forum where you found his contact details.

It is also evident that there are no ways to check the quality of the friend list. It is likely to be one of the profiles that generate friends using miscellaneous automatic means. But you have no choice – those profiles that are manually generated do not provide services similar to the one described in this post.

One more issue – your forums (or any other target of this MySpace promotion) – this one is 100% under your control. It should be appropriate for most MySpace users.

Summary: It is obvious that you can use this simple method for any type of promotion. Your advantages:

- no need to lose time for accumulating friends with MySpace,
- no danger that your MySpace account will be banned

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