Online Marketing Glossary: Link Bait

Posted on Nov 3, 2008 in Marketing |

Link Bait:

  • A useful, entertaining, creative Web content or Web tool that encourages website owners to link to it.

glossary bookA lot of bloggers do this – write a post that has a headline that’s just RIPE for linking back.  Create some controversy to get your blog linked to.  Or, just create some damn good content to pass along for others.  There’s nothing wrong with this; it’s a skillful art that some people have mastered and some haven’t.

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Glossary Definition From
ABC’s of Online Marketing by Alexandra Wharton, Issue 22, Revenue Magazine