A Simple Guide to Creating Linkbait

SEOmoz | A Simple Guide to Creating Linkbait:

nice post. Reinforcing what Melissa has said: " You don't want to waste your time creating and promoting content that won't work." So how you can find out which content will work. Here are some ideas: 1. Search for link worthy contents on your competitors' sites Go to open site explorer, enter the url of your competitor's site, click on 'get link data' and then on the 'top pages' tab. You will then get a list of most linked to pages on the site. These are the pages that most probably contain link baits (that's why they are the most linked to). Now run reports on OSE for each of these 'top linked to' pages to find the sites/blogs which linked/liked these link baits. These are your potential linking partners. Another good way of finding potential linking partners is through Google Alerts. Set up google alerts for your industry keywords. 2. Measure engagement of your competit...

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