We have already talked abit about linkbaiting.  We discussed how developing insightful and thought-provoking linkbaiting content for your site is a great way to attract engine rankings.  We also mentioned how great linkbaiting not only provides valuable content to your industry community, ****? also encourages an on-line dialogue with members of your market audience, be they local, national or international.   An informative conversation open to other points of view invariably encourages others to put their own two cents in.

Strong linkbaiting often features targeted research, thought-provoking arguments and ideas, creative and informative ***?nmanship, and insightful critical ****.sis.  Sound ***?miliar?  If you believed your mother when she told you during your college or university days that it was a complete waste of ***?me to take those Creative Writing and Political Science courses, it’s ***?me to reconsider her opinions.  

The truth is that the type of research and writing skills you developed in pursuing that Arts or Social Science degree will come in very handy if you are creating site content for linkbaiting.  Okay, so you think that surely you have long forgotten many of the details from the credit courses in English, Philosophy and Political Science that you took at ***?nRide College or Slackers University.   Chances are, however, that many of those ***?nmanship skills are still with you – researching, collecting and classifying information, developing ideas, considering the pros and cons of a particular issue, summarizing, offering concise critical ****.sis, even engendering an insightful dialogue with others. All these impressive and valuable abilities take considerable effort and ***?me (and tuition fees!) to develop and should not be downplayed.  And all these skills are really essential to strong linkbaiting.  Next ***?me your ***?mily or friends dish your arts or social science background, or that Introduction to World Politics course you took back in year one of your studies, be sure to remind them how relevant those courses have become, now that you are a professional linkbaiter!    


- Brad Lombardo