Blogs and websites vie for position to gain more search engine traffic. Getting ranked really well on those search engine results can be attributed to building plenty of good quality backlinks that point to your site, as this can really increase your site's value in the eyes of those search engines. Linkbaiting is nothing but a way to get other sites/blogs to link to you in exchange of something that provides value to them. Doing this is actually easier than it sounds. Linkbaiting can also be applied in a number of different ways that can help you achieve measurable results.

Create Useful Lists: If you run a blog or submit content on your site on a consistent basis, one good way to get people to link to you is to make a list of helpful things and publish it. This list could be about errors, leads, plans myths or anything. In this day and time, viewers love to read lists because they are helpful for solving their problems. But because lists have become everyday news in this day and time, maybe you should attempt a different approach. Put something very unique in your articles and you will get a lot of people who want to link to you.

Make them Chuckle: Humor is one of the most effective linkbaits on a consistent basis.

It does not matter if you have a funny picture or even a true story, it will spread all over the internet and others will surely want to link to you. This is one of the key reasons for YouTube's instant popularity because people love to look at things that have humor involved. Just make sure that the humor you use is not bad humor and that it does not clash with your overall plans. You can start off by writing a humorous blog post that's related to your niche and then slowly progress into other ways of doing it.

Expose Online Scams and Warn Readers: Linkbaiting is about finding a way so that you benefit, but also the site linking to you derives some form of benefit for providing the link too. There are tons of scams happening all over the Internet, in various niches. So if you're the site always working hard to expose scams and inform or warn people about them, other webmasters will happily provide links to you as being their source of information. This might not be a regular thing, but if you can do it when these scams emerge, it will encourage a fresh surge of backlinks into your site. The above are just a few of the ways that linkbaiting can be leveraged to get more backlinks to your blog or website. If you've never tried linkbaiting before, it will be a whole new learning experience for you. The only thing that you need to keep in mind is that no matter what procedure you choose for linkbaiting, it should not violate the rules of the search engines or be unethical, because that's not going to be good for your website's ranking in the long run.