Thanks KC for sharing with me this video. Everybody wants websites to link to them. It’s a great way to bring in the traffic especially when the websites are very targeted. The usual ways are to buy sponsored links (which Google don’t really like as providing “link juice”). But to think of creative ways to attract links to you is considered as a “whitehat linkbait” by Matt Cutts.
Watch this video from Matt Cutts explaining one example of creating a linkbait from twitter.
When I saw this video, something just starts to bother me. To get someone to link you, you have to do it in a creative way so that people will link you without asking for it. That must be the clue given by Matt Cutts as a whitehat linkbait.
Do you have creative ways to generate whitehat linkbaits?
We may not have creative minds to help us to think of ways to get linkbacks. But what can we really do? I think that the very basic thing that we must do on our website is to create the contents that people will want to see. It may not be the best contents out there, but it must be genuinely helpful. This will attract Google to give you more traffic, and that is through the number of links to you from external websites. If you are genuinely good, you will tend to attract a lot of people who are interested in you and will keep on looking out for more. It may eventually create linkbacks. Anyway, with the social media around, all of us may not need to have a website to link you anymore! We just need our Twitter, Facebook, or even just a blogger account!
So you have creative mind!
Ok that is a good thing. But again, this is kinda subjective to blackhat and whitehat when you have the creativity to create linkbaits. And also, I would think that the contents should hold some “water” when we actually read it. It really displeases me when I see contents which are really bad on Twitter…
Seriously speaking, I have already given up thinking so much about creative linkbaits… Just focus my part and create my own branding online is more important than anything else.
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Thankyou, found the info very helpful.