Link baiting to win, top ten lists are for sissy's! Digg is so yesterday.

Link Baiting is when you put something on your site for the sole purpose of getting somebody to link to your webpage. The idea is that if all of these other sites think you are good enough to link to then google should too. If google loves you then everything else in your life should naturally fall into place. You will lose weight, get a girlfriend, dominate at WOW, move out of your moms basement and regrow your hair.

So admittedly my blog sucks and so does most of my traffic. You may be asking yourself…”self: why would I listen to this guy when his daily visits are embarrassing and his pagerank pathetic?” I must admit that is an appropriate question.

In the spirit of open source here are unattributed ideas I have stolen from all over the web (If you think I stole one of them from you your probably right):

Write some crap and then hit the “stumble” button. This is the easy button equivalent of website traffic. You are garuanteed to get at least a couple hundred page views. Many of you are reading this now because I hit that button. Do me a favor and hit it again…Thanks!
Insult Nerds and things that they love. I love my MacBook but if I say something about it sucks and that Jobs looks stupid in his mock turtleneck i am guaranteed to get some action. (virtual action - not attention from girls)
Get a better design - this blog is a free template and it’s boring. But until I start to get a paycheck from it I am not going to spend a dime. But it is kindof a chicken and egg thing…If you are interested in a paycheck then spend the dime.
Social Networks - Everyone knows this one but let me just say that Digg has always failed me. I really need to say more things that nerds love. I can usually get some nice traffic from other sources like Reddit
Write better stuff - I suck at this one
Actually do something amazing - if you build it they will come - this is hard to do but worth doing. Why is it #6?
Top ten list are for sissy’s - 101 lists are the new top ten. But be careful because soon the 1001 list will be the new 101 list. You better get started now.
Turn your content inside out - On the old web people were really concerned about getting people to the website. It was all about “exclusive” content for subscribers. Those days are done only the WSJ does that anymore. Share your content, let your subscribers consume HOW, WHERE OR WHEN THEY MAY! Make it a website BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE. You can do this with RSS and a bunch of other crap.
Build some backlinks - Squidoo, Craigslist, Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers, Google Groups, DMOZ, del.icio.us, there are about a billion other sites where you can also get a link.
Link trading - I have a suggestion, only do this with websites that you would want a link from even if search engines didn’t exist. Why? Search is getting smarter all the time and soon they will see right through directories and link trading sites if they don’t already so don’t wast your time.
Give something away - I don’t know come up with something…(tip: it should be something you don’t have to pay for and that can easily scale - no duh) Free Templates are popular with geeks, Doesn’t have to be a Drupal or Wordpress template either. You could give away an Excel spreadsheet template that you use in your consulting
Email your friends and beg for links
Beg for links in your post (that is a hint once again i am actually asking you to link to me)