Traffic is obviously what everyone is looking for when they first start up their site. People have high asperations for their sites when they first start them, but those dreams can quickly fade away and die hard, if you don’t start seeing some results. I was no different, I used to start a blog, fall in love with it, then just forget about it because I didn’t really care. Today I was searching around the local forums and found an awesome way to gain traffic to your site that not a lot of people use. Again I’m going to give props to another warriorforum.com user for teaching me this idea thanks to Kim Roach!

Step One

Go to google and perform the following searches -

“Daily Link Roundup”
“Weekly Link Roundup”
“Monday Link Roundup”
“Friday Link Roundup”
“Link Roundup”

Step Two

Find Blogs that are similar to your blog and contact the owner with some of your best content attached. Make sure you spice up the email a little bit with some information about their site, and maybe even comment on a specific article of theirs that you read.

By Buttering them up a little bit I can 100% guaruntee you that you will see more responses than if you were just to send them the content. It makes them feel good because it makes them feel like people are paying attention to them, and really care about their site.

Step 3

Go to Blog Carnival and find some blog carnivals that are related to you topics of discussion and submit.

Not only will you start to see an increase in traffic, but each piece of content that you get in either one of the daily link round-ups or a blog carnival is a solid link back to your site. It’s the perfect way to start getting more easy traffic to your site.

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I have had several requests from readers asking me to give them an example of what a link building article might look like for a small business. The SEO term for link building article is called a link bait article. The nice thing about the name is it is pretty self explanitory when you think about it. You are trying to write a link bait article to “bait” others into linking to your site. The example article I am going to show you is going to be about flowers. I have another person with whom I’m currently working that has asked for an example article as well. So I figured I would share it with everyone else as well.

Example:

Top 10 Most Beautiful Autumn Wedding Flower Arrangements

A wedding is the most intimate and personal and beautiful ceremony that a bride and groom will have in their lives. Wedding flowers should reflect that. Autumn is a season of rich and elegant colors and for that reason it is one of the most popular times of the year to get married. Choosing the best wedding flowers you can is a big decision and a tough one. Take a look at the top 10 most beautiful wedding autumn wedding flower arrangements and hopefully you’ll feel a little more inspired.

Hopefully after seeing some of these flower bouquets and arrangements you have a little bit of inspiration as to what you are looking for in your own Autumn wedding bouquet. These are just a few of the samples from a wide variety of choices that you can choose from. Stop into your local flower dealer and ask them to show you a few samples of their own. Determine your style and they will work with you. Remember choosing flowers for your wedding is a big decision so make sure you are getting what you want and go to a place that is willing to work with you to get you the flowers that you have always dreamed of.

END EXAMPLE ARTICLE

This is just one of the many styles of link bait articles that you can use to help attract link. Let’s break this one down: Who am I targeting with this article? How am I targeting them? How can I get them to link to me? These are all questions that you should ask yourself before writing a link bait article. Now I’m going to answer the above questions by breaking down the entire example article.

Who am I targeting?
Well the obvious answer in this one would be Brides who are getting married in the fall. But take a look at the title. I have made this article a Top 10 article. There is an entire subset of people on the internet who are just Top 10, Top 50, Top 100 addicts. They love to see lists like this. By choosing this format I have hit not only my target market but I have also opened up to those Top 10 list lovers as well. That will give me the opportunity to get the article out to more people and attract more links.

How am I targeting them?
As discussed above I am targeting the Top 10 people simply by making an interesting Top 10 list. But I also am targeting a specific type of Bride. A fall bride? Why did I choose to do that? Because fall really IS one of the most popular times of the year to get married and by targeting just this one specific group this time, I could also do a top 10 winter, spring, and summer article as well. But moreover if a bride is searching for wedding flowers and she is getting married in the fall, she probably is going to be searching for autumn or fall wedding flowers. This article title and subject matter will give me a better chance of showing up in the search results for those brides and will increase the click through rate from this group of brides.

How can I get my target audience to link to me?
This is a BIG one. You need to know how you are going to get links from the article or you have just wasted a lot of time. With this specific article I would likely post the article on some bridal forums, email some other bridal blogs, and I would even try to find some of these brides on some other bridal social networks like say The Knot. Link bait marketing is just like normal marketing. You have to advertise the article in places where brides can find it, just like a flower dealer would advertise his services in places that brides can find it.

I hope this has been a lot of help. If there are any questions go ahead and leave them in the comments and I will respond to them as quickly as I can. If you have any ideas for things that you’d like to see me write about just let me know Email Me and I will try and get something up to help you out. Thanks everyone I’ll see you next time.