New Blog Traffic 2010

Guest Article

While link bait pages have been a tactic mostly used by bloggers to increase traffic, there are methods that any site can use to get a boost in traffic, both for an immediate results and consistent increased traffic over the long term. Link baiting is a way of getting traffic to your site without using reciprocal links or advertising.  It is about building interest and driving people to seek out your site, instead of you seeking out people. The 7 best things you can do to generate loads of interest on your sites to drive traffic are:

1.  Creating Fantastic Content

If you create consistently great content, you will earn the respect of your peers, and they will link to you. If they like your writing and find it interesting, they will come back consistently so see what else you have to say.
This, however, can take time to build.  There are other, faster ways to get viral traffic to your site now.  Always maintain the quality of your content; it will provide you with consistent and increasing traffic if you’re good.  For an instant traffic boost, try these additional hooks:

2.  Providing Breaking News

If you’ve got a scoop, you can drive huge amounts of traffic to your pages.  As link bait, almost nothing works better than the news hook.  If you’ve got exclusive info, and you’ve got it before anyone else, you’ve got a goldmine on your hands.  Having any new information or angle on an already huge news story is also a fantastic way to drive traffic to your site.

3.  Going Against The Norm

Take a subject within your niche, and disagree with the established stance.  It helps if you actually do disagree with it. Pick an argument different to everyone else, and be prepared to defend it. You may have to spend a lot of time replying to comments and defending yourself, but it will most definitely generate a large amount of traffic very quickly.

4.  Attack

Much more adversarial than the contrary method, this hook lays down a direct attack on an already established norm or view. This is sometimes hard to do properly, but remember never to attack a person or establishment directly, instead attack the view or perception instead. Doing the former could lead to a huge backlash against you. While this has the makings of potentially huge traffic, I would warn you that using this as a link baiting method should not be done unless you are totally convinced of your position and actually have solid and credible data to back you up should a backlash against you happen. *Warning – not for the light of heart*.

5.  Humor

We all know how fast humor can make its way around the web. If you’ve got something funny, and hopefully unique, your traffic will increase and people share it with each other. As link bait, the humor hook is almost too easy; people never seem to tire of them.  Use it to your advantage to increase traffic to your pages.

6.  Dish Out Giveaways

If you’ve got something valuable to giveaway, people will find you.  It doesn’t have to be something that costs you money, but if you’ve got a free font or some open share software as link bait that’s available for download on your site, you’ve got guaranteed traffic.

7. Providing A Resource

People are always looking for information on the web; make your link bait page a repository for information in your niche, and you’ll have a ton of traffic in no time. It can be a list of blogs in your niche, a list of useful tools or information, or how-to information that’s relevant to your website.  You’d be surprised at the amount of traffic something simple like a metric conversion chart can be.  Just make sure that the resource you supply as link bait has something to do with your niche.

In the end, you have a number of fantastic ways that you can use to make your link bait pages become a great traffic magnet. The best way is of course a combination all of the above, and learning that can take a long time…but it doesn’t have to, if you have the resources and the training that capitalizes on these methods. Portal Feeder is one such source, and if you are interested to master these methods then it would be worthwhile checking it out.