What is link baiting ?

[mackhunt88]

what is link baiting and does it has any connection to SEO ?

[prymagestore]

Link Bait is process to creating a piece of viral content that people will want to link to and share it on the web. Your link bait will have to be interesting enough to catch people’s attention but if it’s not then you’re not going to get many people linking to your site

[webdesignfl]

Link baiting is specifically designed to get attention of users or encourage others to link to the website; it is used in any content or feature or any other place in the website. Link baiting is a powerful form of SEO and it is use for quality incoming links and these links help you get good rank a website.

For more on Link Baiting check this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_bait

[james smit]

Link baiting is one of the best link building strategy,it is used to write a informational and interesting content on a website,which helps to generate incoming links from other sites.

[jullieroslin]

This means “baiting” others into linking to your site. Typically, this means posting unique, controversial, extremely useful or otherwise entertaining content or tools so that others naturally link to your web page.

[andhrareporter]

It is a part of Article marketing means to getting the maximum benefits with the help of links placed in the article.

[john515]

Link baiting is about writing content in a website, which arouses the interest and curiosity of others. It is such a content which other sites love to link because they feel that it should be linked and not because you are asking them to link it. Link bait helps SEO in many ways mainly by link building. Link bait helps to get more links to your website and it increases the chance of your website getting indexed by search engines.

[sabrinasai]

Linkbait is a word that gets passed round a lot in SEO - but it's not a massively used or understood term, and a Google search only yields a few specialist sites based on SEO. Some describe it as a technique; others dismiss it as a by-product of producing quality content.

[Raju]

Link bait is For all intents and purposes a piece of content placed on a web page - whether it's an article, blog post, picture, or any other section of cyberspace - that is designed for the Unambiguous Intent of Congregation links from as many different sources as possible.

[markdev]

Link baiting is practically the only pure white hat method out there. The idea is to produce content so good, people will build links for you. You can do this through infographics, viral videos, press releases of actual news that people care about, and through other manners of content.