Comments on: Link Bait vs Digg Bait

By: Alex in San Diego

Alex in San Diego — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:38:22 +0000

Thanks for the post. I have a blog about real estate in San Diego and really try to stick with the unique content approach. I post unique ways to market real estate on a daily/weekly basis. All content is unique and hopefully people will start bookmarking soon. Thanks for the article!

By: Manish Chauhan

Manish Chauhan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:07:52 +0000

Nice to read a very new concept of link baiting from you…I would like to see some more posts from your end for better link baiting understanding..
Thanks again for this gr8 post…

By: palcom

palcom — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:34:38 +0000

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By: Does Link Baiting Still Work? 3 Ways To Make It Last » derrich.com - crude, yet refined

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 07:42:02 +0000

[...] Lee Odden at Online Marketing Blog talks about the difference between Link Bait vs. Digg Bait. Jennifer Slegg discusses whether or not link bait is dying as a search optimization technique. Todd Malicoat at Stuntdubl.com outlines the list of link baiting hooks I listed above, and adds two of his own: the Ego Hook and the Incentive Hook. Peter Da Vanzo at the V7 Network expands on the value-added approach of link baiting. [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:33:22 +0000

I think that content is the king in both cases. If one has some unique content it will help in both link bating and digg baiting.

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:38:50 +0000

mblair, I think you’re right on with the notion of customization according to the audience. That’s straight marketing, something many SMO’s and SEO’s lose sight of when they get too caught up in the “latest” tactics.

By: Beguinners Guide to SEO

Beguinners Guide to SEO — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:14:28 +0000

So they are both links but with different purposes? Link bait helps build link popularity and is more permanent; Digg bait is to get exposure (visibility) on the Web.

By: Web Marketing Strategies » Blog Archive » Link Bait vs Digg Bait

Web Marketing Strategies » Blog Archive » Link Bait vs Digg Bait — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:18:48 +0000

[...] Lee Odden at the toprankblog has an interesting look at the comparison of linkbaiting and Digg-baiting. [...]

By: mblair

mblair — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:13:46 +0000

It’s all about the criteria for action. What motivates people to digg web pages can be different from what motivates others to bookmark it in del.icio.us or blog about it. And these are different criteria that Reddit and Netscape users use.

You really hit a home run with content that meets the criteria for everything, but that is a tall order. The best thing to do is to really study what makes it in the social media you care about and try to understand what works where.

In many ways it may be better to recast the content for baiting different social media, much in the same way that press releases are customized to different outlets.

By: Rick Garcia

Rick Garcia — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:39:31 +0000

Today Digg bait IS link bait. I think that traditionally, link bait has been directed at targeted traffic and a longer term process focussing on generating quality links, whereas getting Digg links is a link bait tactic that doesn’t care about any sort of relevance, but getting the most links in the shortest amount of time

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:41:52 +0000

“Link bait focuses on content that becomes viral based on it’s usefulness and often becomes a long term resource and source of traffic. Digg bait is short term and emphasizes clever hype, knowing that many readers will not actually read the content.”

In a very real sense, the issue is home-cooked food like our mothers would make versus a burger from a street corner stand…

By: Shopgirl

Shopgirl — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:47:52 +0000

my blog rocks, but since china banned my blog because im cute, i have now only 100 readers.

By: Brian Clark

Brian Clark — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:48:46 +0000

>>Is there a difference between link bait and Digg bait?

Certainly not the norm, but I guess my answer to the question you posed is “not necessarily.”

By: Difference Between Linkbait & Digg Bait

Difference Between Linkbait & Digg Bait — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:32:34 +0000

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By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:28:23 +0000

Hey Andy, I do think they can work together and there’s no doubt that the spike in visibility is beneficial. At the same time, I think we agree that it’s worth noting their differences in order to get the most return for effort from link building.

Brian, quality content without sensationalism making Digg’s home page is certainly possible, but not the norm. Heck, even legit stories sneak their way into the National Enquirer once in a while.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:32:21 +0000

Brian you do have a fairly cultivated and large Digg audience from previous high profile content.

As an example my Ultimate list of Dofollow plugins currently reports over 500 links to the page in Yahoo, and some fairly high profile links that sent significant traffic. WTC (inside the Wordpress dashboard), Lorelle, BlogHerald and loads of friends.
Some of those Yahoo links are certainly my internal pages as site explorer never seems to single them out correctly.

So far it received 6 Diggs (and for a long time it did have a Digg button displayed)

That one article I am sure accounted for more than 100 new (longterm) subscribers, and brought me a whole lot of regular linking partners.

By: Brian Clark

Brian Clark — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:17:03 +0000

I think quality content without sensationalism can still make it on Digg, et al, as long as it has an interesting angle. For example, my recent “Zen and the Art of Remarkable Blogging” was not exactly suitable material for the National Enquirer, nor standard Digg fare, but it made the Digg home page because it was different and prompted curiosity.

I love to write stuff that people say has no chance on Digg, and then prove them wrong. Otherwise it gets boring.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:17:32 +0000

A very important subject – quality content continues to be linked to a month or more after it was published, and viral content such as widgets, plugins and themes continue to generate links for as long as they are a suitable solution to people’s needs.

Viral content has never needed social news to make it work as linkbait, although having 10,000 people pick up the content in the space of 24hrs certainly helps accelerate the viral process.