Link Baiting | Interesting post Matt Cutts

This is an interesting blog post from Matt Cutts regarding link baiting.

Quite an interesting comment by Dave posted on January 24, 2006 @ 5:12 pm.

He refers to link bait as simple content.

This makes me ask myself.......

What is the difference of good content and link bait?

or

is it the same?

I personally consider link bait /in our field of creativity, to be a custom designed creative concept to actively encourage linking as opposed to - good content that you hope people will link to.

I guess an OBVIOUS example would be a site like meebis people visit the site to decorate their myspace page with images and styles. When a visitor visits meebis they have to COPY THE HTML CODE and paste into their profile page to display the image. The image code can also contain a back link and a button to take guests to the users profile page back to meebis to start over.

Viral link bait!


What do you guys think?

Link Baiting