People who are involved in SEO know the importance of links. They want and need links, lots of links. Some buy them, some plead for them while some submit them to directories for those coveted one-way links.
While others, they bait them. Linkbait them, that is.
Don’t be put off by the name. Though it sounds nasty, Linkbaiting is a kind of a misnomer. In a sense, you “bait” people with something that they would want to link to. The result: you get to reel-in more traffic and an increase in popularity. But of course, just like in real fishing, you can’t catch fish with rubber as bait. The bait must be something that the people would want. So what can you use as linkbait?
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