Link Baiting to Build a Successful Affiliate Program

There has been a lot of talk recently about Link Baiting. I know the name itself may appear to be a Black Hat technique, but in reality it is a very simple concept. You can write a blog, article or provide some other form of content that is valuable enough for others to link to your page. The blog, article or other valuable content is the bait, and the link to your page is the catch – hence it’s called link baiting. Basically, link baiting is the process of creating something that naturally attracts backlinks for your web page.

Link baiting can be used to help build a successful Affiliate Program by not only getting you in the habit of providing valuable content in one form or another, but also by building your ranking on the search engines due to increased links to your pages. Simply put together a good “hook” page for others to view and that will get people to talk about your affiliate program, discuss it on forums, blog about it and post it on their own sites. The key to a really good “hook” page is to provide valuable content on News, Contrary, Attack, Resource, or Humor. Link baiting is still a new concept to me, so I look forward to putting it into Patrice and then sharing the results with everyone.