I found an article over at WPW by bhartzer and it may have been one of the best articles I have read in a long time.
It is one of those articles that make stop and think.
It started out talking about "linkbait".
He goes on to explain that linkbait is something on your website that makes people want to link to you.
He says that creating things that are funny, controversial, informative, or creative can gain you natural links.
Since natural is all ways the best I decided to do a little digging and a little thinking on this.
Here is what I have come up with.
There are all types of hooks.
I'm sure I've missed a lot of them but I thought I would throw a couple out and help you get the idea:
• Informative Hook
• Creative Hook
• Controversial Hook
• Resource Hook
• Humour Hook
• Orginal Hook
• Different Hook
• Nice Hook
• Attack Hook
First thing we have to understand is that some are done on purpose and some just happen on accident.
One that was done on purpose was the MillionDollarHomePage.com.
It was created by a 21 year old college student, Alex Tew; in England.
He started selling ad space on his web site for £1.00 per pixel. Since there are one million pixels he named the site the Million Dollar Home Page.
If your wondering if he sold them all the last 1,000 pixels where sold on eBay to Elijah Kliger of Brooklyn, NY, for the price of $38,100.
Are you wondering how much traffic this site gets?
On Wednesday 18th of January 2006 there was a total of 350,000 people who visited that site on that day alone.
Guess that is a good example of linkbait.
There are plenty of others I could also show as examples but I think you understand where I'm coming from.
It's up to you the type of hook you decide to use but if your fishing for visitors you had best find one soon.
Author: Janeth Duque of
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