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Link Bait or Link Baiting is perhaps the most important part of getting links to your website. The more links that point to your website the better you will rank in search engines. The better you rank in search engines the more money you will make.

So how are you going to get other webmasters to put a link on their site that points to your site? You don’t want to spam people, you don’t want to send out 1000 emails and beg for links. You need to learn the delicate art of link baiting .

There are many different ways to go about link baiting… jimwestergren.com has a great list of link baiting ideas:

* Make a valuable resource (lists, special reports, history of, how to, etc.)
* Interview (e-mail/phone) prominent people and publish it.
* Build a useful tool
* Write an interesting article
* Run a newsworthy ?event? such as a contest
* Test something new that has not been done before
* Be the first in doing something on the internet
* Write something controversial
* Be the first to write the latest news in your niche
* Be the first to expose a scammer
* Disagree with an authority
* Write some funny humor
* Make an interesting picture
* Be the first to research and document something
* Make a theme, plugin or piece of software
* Make a tool that others can put on their sites but that links to you
* Make a joke about a known person
* Make a resource that is just in time for a major event
* Write an outrageous theory and back it up with logics
* Write useful comments on something that is happening
* Give something valuable for free
* Coin a new acronym in your niche and get people to talk about it
* Become an expert in your niche and write valuable information

The goal of any of these tactics is the same. You want to get links to your website. Think about what kind of sites that you currently link out to and why…

For instance, one of the websites that is the king of link baiting is statcounter.com. Every one of my websites has a link that points to them. That is true link baiting at work! This is an example of giving away a service for free. The only way that I can check my stats is to have a link on my site that points to their site.

Well… now lets be a little bit more practical. Most of us do not have the skills to code an online stat counter or give away a free service. We need to think of easier ways to make link bait.

Try a few of these things on your website:

1. Give away free awards or images that link back to your site.
2. Make a valuable resource of information.
3. Publish a piece of breaking news.
4. Write something very controversial.
5. Make something really funny.
6. Make something really unique.

If you have a blog, link baiting can be pretty easy… Make sure that you know your target audience and then use social bookmarks like digg.com and reddit.com to make your post go viral.

Make Link baiting fun. Try to come up with good bait and catch yourself more fish. Keep track of which link bait tactics work the best. Keep track of link bait that fails. In the end you will probably come up with one or two great ideas and get a lot of links.

Another thing to consider for link baiting is to learn how to code webmaster tools. This may seem hard but if you take the time to do it then you could make really powerful link bait.

An easy way to make some extra money online and to drive traffic to your Yuwie account is through a blog.

The easiest way to do this is to head over to blogger.com and get a free website. You will have it set up within minutes. From here you will be able to start writing posts and you can even place Google Adsense ads on your new site to start making money right away.

The other way to do it is a little harder but will probably pay off in the long term. Buy a Domain Name! Try heading over to godaddy.com and do some domain name research. See if there are any names that are still available for your website. You may need to get a program to help you make the website but I highly recommend learning some HTML code on your own. Also try putting a Wordpress blog on your new domain, this will make everything a lot easier.

All in all, blogging is an easy way to set up a website and start making money online. However, don’t expect to get rich right away. Stick with it and over time your blog will get more readers and more traffic, resulting in more earnings and bigger pay checks for you.

SEO or Search Engine Optimization plays a key role in your ability to get referrals, drive targeted traffic to your website, and make more money from the comfort of your home.

You may be asking: What does this have to do with Yuwie? Well, let me explain.

Lets say that you started a free blog on blogger.com, and you are using this blog to put your Yuwie referral links on. You may be getting a few hits here and there, generating a referral or two a week, maybe even one or two a day if you are lucky. Now imagine this… what if your blog ranked in the top 5 results for the keyword search “make money online” on Google or Yahoo? Do you know how much targeted traffic you would get? How many more referrals? And how much less time spent trying to convince people to check out your site?

This is what SEO or search engine optimization is all about. You want to rank higher in the search results, you want to get more traffic to your websites, and you want to make more money.

Lets take another example…

Lets say that you don’t have your own website, you don’t have your own blog. Is search engine optimization still important? You bet!

Almost every single website on the internet is indexed by search engine spiders… this means your Myspace page, your Youtube videos, your Craigslist ads, your forum and message board posts. All of these sites that contain your Yuwie banners and referral links are lost somewhere in the bottom of the search results.

So how in the world do you get them to the top?

Its simple… Search Engine Optimization.



1. Keywords come first! In order for you web page, blog, article, advertisement, video, website, profile or whatever to rank anywhere in the results for a certain search, it needs to be optimized for certain keywords. This is pretty basic and straight forward… just make sure that if your page is about making money from home and you want it to rank high in the searches for “making money from home”… then those keywords (money, home, make money, make money from home) should come up the most often in the content of the website. This is called “keyword density.”

One of my favorite Search Engine Optimization tools ever: Meta Tag Analyzer

This tool is the bomb. All you have to do is type in the URL of any single website on the internet and it will analyze all the content, keywords, keyword density, etc. Try typing in a website that ranks high for a certain Google search, then scroll down near the bottom of the results and you will see its “keyword density”… chances are that those same keywords you typed in on Google will be the most dense in its “keyword density”.

2. Links come second. The way that search engines tell if a site is important and deserves a high ranking is by the number and strength of incoming links. So basically… the more links that point to any given page, the better it will rank in the search engines. And the keywords that are found in the incoming links are what searches it is going to rank high for. So if you have a website about making money online, then you want as many incoming links to your site with the key words “make money online” as you can. This means that the actual link will look like: make money online … so this link points to yuwietip.com and is improving its ranking for the keyword search “make money online” … starting to understand how this all works?

One of my other favorite SEO tools is: Link Popularity Checker

Use this tool to see how many links point to any given site on the internet. Check out your competitors website and see where they are getting all the incoming links from. Its not cheating, its just good old link research!

3. Page design and Layout… Try to match incoming link keywords with on site keywords. The only problem here is that if you don’t own the website (Myspace profile, Yuwie Profile), then you don’t have access to edit or change certain aspect of the site… limiting your on site optimization abilities.

Make sure your keywords are in your page title. (can be hard to do if you don’t own the site)

Make sure your page doesn’t have links to illegal sites.

Make sure to bold and big your keywords.

Make sure to have your keywords in you URL. (hard to do if you don’t own the site)

Make sure to have your keywords in you Meta Tags. (hard to do if you don’t own the site)

A lot of information? Well there is still a lot more to learn! If you are serious about making money online and driving traffic, page views, or customers to any site on the internet… you will need to know more about Search Engine Optimization. I get most of my information from other blogs, websites and online tutorials. Try searching Google and you will find almost everything that you need… But don’t be fooled by all the people trying to sell you stuff. You can do it all by yourself.