Posts Tagged ‘link bait’

Creating Links With Content

There are many people out on the web who create a simple presence with the hope of being able to earn money online. Usually the presence has very little content and a ton of affiliate programs or other monetization links. When you create a presence with little content then the necessary internet marketing to reach the top of Google and other major search engines jumps dramatically. If you want to rank well in Google making plenty of money without working day and night on internet marketing then you need to learn how to create content that markets itself. This is an art and cannot be done with your first or second attempt. Creating link bait is something that takes years to master so don’t have high hopes for your first few months.

First you will need a quality presence that will let you update and publish content easily. Personally when it comes to publishing content on a regular basis nothing beats a blogging platform. Go to wordpress.com and set up a blog for free or download the files then upload them on your server. WordPress makes creating, updating, and publishing extremely easy which means you can spend more time working on your contents quality. Another important aspect of trying to create link bait is when you write articles making sure they have not been covered. You can do this by searching for the titles and alternatives of the titles. If you write an article that has already been covered it will not get the same exposure or the same amount of links as if you write an article that has not already been written.

In the beginning if you want exposure to your writing basic link building and social marketing will be important. Without basic internet marketing you will not get indexed by the search engines and your content will not come up within the search engines. To get indexed all you will need to do is start building some links from article directories, general directories, and exchanging links with other websites. If you need a list of article directories go to Google and search for “list of article directories”. For a list of general directories go to directorycritic.com where you will find thousands of free general directories. There are a couple ways you can start performing link exchanges. The old fashioned way is searching Google for related websites finding the webmasters email address and emailing him with the link exchange proposal. The second way and how I exchange links is using the link exchange directory linkmarket.net. This website will make link exchanges much easier and the great thing about the directory is every website within the directory wants to exchange links. Doing these three things will help you quickly get indexed within Google and once you are indexed the articles you write will also start ranking well.

Link Wheel Vs. Link Bait

When you begin a website or blog you will quickly find that no one will come to your presence unless you begin internet marketing. Marketing online will not be something that you can learn overnight and will be changing constantly with new resources being created and major search engine algorithms being changed. There are several sources across the web which you can use if you would like to start learning about search engine optimization or social marketing. These are the major two forms of free internet marketing and this post will be focusing on search engine optimization rather than social marketing. First you should be searching Google and the other major search engines for the top SEO blogs. These people spend all of their time just figuring out exactly how the search engines work and what the best practices are for ranking well within the search engines. I spend quite a bit of time on SEO at my make money blog.

Usually when trying to learn about SEO you will come across two common terms which are important in the SEO world. The first term is the link wheel and is a strange name given to a web presence network full of websites, blogs, pages, and articles all linking one way and all linking to a main website or blog. This is the exact definition of a link wheel, but really it is not very helpful for us who are pretty much making our living off of the web. The majority of us do not have a few articles, pages, blogs, or websites. Personally my make money network has one main website, a blog, and a directory. This is only one of my major networks making me money so creating a simple link wheel is a little ridiculous. Now I do understand the theory behind the link wheel which is promoting the website which is helping you earn money online. Also promoting the smaller links which are pointing towards your money maker. Rather than creating a link wheel make sure you link everything to the highest paying of your web presences and try building links to the pages that link to your website.

The second term which you will find in the different web master communities such as v7n.com/forums/ is the term “link bait”. Usually webmasters strive to create content which is considered link bait. The reason link bait is a good thing is it will do the internet marketing for you. Link bait is when you create content that is good enough to be linked to without you having to ask or promote the content. You write an authority article about a topic and the webmasters within the niche will link to it when they read it and think it will help their audience. You should constantly be trying to build links in this manner. Every article you write think about whether or not you would link to it and what you can do to make the best content possible.