Linkbait is the act of adding content to a website with the aim of attracting links from other sites. The content can take a variety of different forms from a unique tool or a breaking news story to a well written article or controversial image.

Sometimes linkbait is intentional but quite often the best linkbait is conceived quite by accident.

My favourite piece of link bait is the Adobe Acrobat Reader software. The download page has over 15 million links and is probably the most linked internal page on the web today.

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Now, without further delay, the 30 Traffic Generation Tips�:

1. Sridhar Katakam
Keep track of blogs and leave comments on them. A good way to keep the conversation going is to install a MyBlogLog widget and visit the blog of people visiting your site.

2. Ian Delaney
Nothing creates long-term traffic more than value. Consider writing posts with resources or explaining how things work. Useful things get linked to and they get onto del.icio.us, which is far better long-term than a digg front page.

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With the Shareaholic plugin installed for Firefox, you can easily share, bookmark and email web pages directly within your browser without leaving the site you’re on. For marketers, you can easily find out the popularity of a page among different social bookmarking services.

The social bookmarking services included are Delicious, FriendFeed, Mixx, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Digg, Google Bookmarks, Reddit, Truemors, Facebook, Magnolia, Simpy and Tumblr.

You can customize the sites that you would like to be able to access through the pulldown menu.

This is also a great plugin to have if you want to see which of your pages have been tagged and saved by others.

Give it a try!

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