Top 10 Most Effective Linkbaiting Techniques

Here are 10 most effective linkbaiting techniques that are commonly used:

Podcasting: Make a podcast that give tips, discusses news or information within the industry your blog belong is great baiting tool.

Interviews: Conducting interview to someone well known in the industry where your blog belong would certainly be worth linking to.

Award Search: Awards search are another way to bring in traffic and links where you let your participants post entries to their blogs with a link pointing to your blog

Tools and games: Create a new tool or games that other bloggers may use to their blogs that contains a link to your blog.

Link Exchange the Right Way to Build Blog Traffic

Some says link exchange will do more harm than good to your blog and there are some truths to this. Link exchange used to be a great way to increase your Page Rank and gain a better position in Google. Now, this method has become less effective as it will no longer help you with site popularity but will still gain targeted visitors to your site.

Let me first tell you why link exchange will no longer help you increase website popularity before we go on building blog traffic through exchanging links the right way.

Link exchange as a method of promotion has gone out of favor. Many webmaster indulge in what I call spam indexing. These cheaters are targeting search engines that rely heavily on popularity and links. Some may buy links to raise popularity. Others engaged in exchanging links with anybody and everybody just to gain popularity. There are even dozen of small websites purposely made to link the main one just to give false view of website popularity.

Link Exchange

Some of the questions I found worth sharing here are:

Why are links important?
Links are important because they help Internet users find interesting, informative, and useful content, either on the site itself or at other Internet locations. Inbound links have special value to the search engines, including Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, and Ask Jeeves, as the number, duration of linking time, and quality are part of the search engine algorithms. As a general rule, the more incoming links that a Web page and website receive, the better the site will rank in the search engines.

Do all links have equal value to the search engines?
While quantity of links is important, quality is even more important. Some inbound links are simply given more value than others by the search engine algorithms. Links from pages deemed to be more relevant, in terms of topic and theme, are given more weight. Also given more value are links that are labeled with more keyword rich anchor text, links from pages with higher Google PageRank, and links that originate within content pages rather than from the ubiquitous “links pages.” There is even some evidence that linking out to other Web pages provides some benefit to the link sending page.

Are links from blogs helpful?
Inbound links from blogs are very powerful. Because blog writers, called bloggers, are very generous linkers, they are very likely to link naturally to interesting and informative content. The blog will be highly theme relevant to your site as bloggers tend to stay within their main areas of interest. If the link is placed within a blog post or article, powerful link anchor text might also be included. Blogs also contain a links list, referred to as a blogroll, and those links are usually placed on the blog’s high PageRank home page.

Are blog comment links good for search engine rankings?
Blog comment links are now treated in much the same way as guest book links. Google is even suggesting a robots.txt coding to prevent any link popularity or PageRank transfer from blog comments to prevent spamming. It’s important to note that blog comments are very different from blog links themselves. The two link types should not be confused, as they are similar to a website’s relationship to its guest book.

Who are the best link exchange partners for a site?
The best link exchange partners are other sites sharing a similar or complementary theme and topics to your site. Avoid sites that have no theme or topic relevance to your own site because they will provide little in the way of link popularity or inbound traffic.

Increase Your Traffic by Sending Your Traffic to Other Blogs

Am I kidding? Definitely no, in fact I am on my very right mind telling you this: If you want to have more traffic to your blog then sends your visitors to visit other blogs, websites and even to your competitor blogs.

You may be thinking that the above is the foolish thing to do but I am here telling you that this is at par with other effective blog traffic strategies.

If you blog about what your competitors are saying and if you place their links within your post then you are doing brilliant service to your readers. Readers will lover your blog more. It appears to them that your blog has more authority in the industry your blog belong.

The more you send people away to more valuable resources, the more valuable you become to your target audience and the more your readers will stick with you. Also, blogging about other bloggers position yourself to get your blog cited by them at some point. Thus, will increase your traffic coming from them.

Google Adsense: The Top Money Maker by Most Bloggers

The Free Google Adsense Program

Google Adsense is a monetization revolution for small content publisher. It allows small web content providers such as bloggers to earn revenue from advertising on their web sites and blogs. When a visitor click on the on the Google ads, Google makes a small profit from the advertiser, and in turn, pays a percentage of that profit to content publisher.

Such click can translate into pennies or dollars a day for a web publisher. Since it’s launch dated year 2003, the Google Adsense program has revolutionized the web publishing, turning blogs and personal websites into a money making machine.

Google makes it easy for everyone to join. If you are a web publisher or a blogger then simple complete the online Adsense form. Once your application is approve and have added the google adsense script to your site or blog then google will automatically place the ads on the site or blog similar to those that appear next to search google search results.

Get One Way Inbound Links

One way inbound links are more desirable that reciprocal links. Both will help you gain targeted visitors to your blog but unlike reciprocal links, one way inbound links will increase your blog popularity through search engine ranking and in effect will bring you more traffic. So get one way inbound links.

Now, whilst it sounds easy in principle to get inbound links, actually getting them in practice can take some effort. And this effort can take some considerable time to pay off.

What are the benefits of getting one way inbound links?

Search engine robots work by following links between websites and blogs. The more inbound links your blog has, the more often robots will visit your blog. Also, search engines assume that if lots of websites link to your blog it must be high quality. Many search engines count links to your blog as “votes” for you. Page Rank is Google’s system of counting links.

The general rule is that the more inbound links you can get, the better. Getting more links should almost certainly be near the top of your priority list when optimizing your blog.
But how do you get them?

There are many ways to get one way inbound link but the best way is simply to create blog posts which other webmasters will want to link to. These are known as natural links. Natural links have many advantages:

Force Your Way to Get One Way Inbound Links from High Page Ranking Blogs

One way inbound links from high PR blogs are like treasure. Every blogger wants them because they deliver high blog traffic and earn high search engine recognition.

The biggest question now is how to you get these precious one way inbound links? An even harder question is how to we get inbound links from blogs with a high page rank?

Surprisingly, the answer to this hard question is easy. Just post comments on high page rank blogs. The kind and quality of comment that are likely be acceptable to the blog’s moderator.

So, you can now have your one way inbound links from high page ranking blogs. Sure, some search engine spiders don’t follow those links if the blogging software adds a rel=nofollow tag, but the spiders at 2 of the big 3 search engines reportedly ignore that tag.

Now, what’s the plan?

This may sounds a lot of work, but yes, you need to find relevant high page ranking blogs. You ask, how?

Drive Blog Traffic by Pingging

You want more blog traffic? Why don’t you try pinging? Yes, you can increase blog traffic by pinging. But first, what is pinging?

Pinging is an act of sending a series of packets from one computer over a network or the Internet to a specific computer in order to generate a response from that computer. The other computer responds with an acknowledgment that it received the packets. Ping was created to verify whether a specific computer on a network or the Internet exists, and is connected.

Pinging and Blog Traffic

Certain Web sites want to know when you post something new to your blog so they can promote it to the world. By pinging these Web sites you can get the word out easily. This allows you to build blog traffic.

Most blogging software will ping to at least one of these Web sites automatically. However, you can easily promote your new post to dozens more. The good thing about this, you don’t have to visit their site each time you want to promote your blog.

Boost Your Blog Traffic with RSS Feed

Every serious blogger publishes an RSS feed of his posts and readers aggregate all their favorites blogs feeds in an aggregator. When you publish your RSS feed, your viewers will thank you, and there will be more of them, because it allows them to see your site without going out of their way to visit.

While this seems bad at first glance, it actually improves your blog’s visibility; by making it easier for your users to keep up with your site - allowing them to see it the way they want to - it’s more likely that they’ll know when something that interests them is available on your site.

For example, imagine your blog announces a new product or feature every week or two. Without a feed, your viewers have to remember to come to your blog and see if they find anything new - if they have time. If you provide a feed for them, they can point their aggregator or other software at it, and it will give them a link and a description of developments at your blog almost as soon as they happen.

By providing a feed, you are in front of them constantly, improving the chances that they’ll click through to a post that catches their eye and visit your blog.

Here, this blog now provide a feed for which anybody can subscribe. There are various formats or protocols of feed available such as RSS and Atom. However, my feeds are readable to any format the subscriber is using because of SmartFeed service by FeedBurner. So what is FeedBurner?

Boost Your Blog Traffic with 1000 Directories Submission

It is a common knowledge to almost all bloggers that directory submission will increase blog traffic. I know, you knew it but how much have you done submitting your blog and RSS feed to blog directories? I suppose, this is a good area to conduct a survey. Another follow-up question is this, how much directory submission will you think be enough to turn your blog into money making machine?

When you aim to turn your blog into money making machine, maybe or just maybe 100 directory submission will not be enough. For this blog, I aimed for 1000 directory submission done before the year ends.

I will post here names and links of the directories to which this blog is submitted and keep this entry updated until I reach 1000 submission. Later, after some time, in my future post, I may be able to tell you which directories will bring good blog traffic. So keep visiting this post.