Link Bait Hooks,

Resource Hook

• A comprehensive list of blogs in your niche - link out, and links will come in, i promise.
• A practical/useful or even fun tool related to your niche
• A How To based on your niche
• A compilation of news stories on a theme. Sprinkle a little analysis in there, and you're good to go.

News Hook

• A genuine Scoop. Get to the news first
• A compilation of news, as above, its a resource aswell as a news hook.
• Expose a story for a fraud, or to be flawed. You really have to know your subject to do that, but links flow like water if you can debunk a popular meme

Contrary Hook

• Be the only one in your niche to find something to not like about a story, or like about a story/product.
• On the same theme, post "Why is WRONG about..."

Attack Hook

This works much the same as the contrary hook, you just get to be much, much ruder. It's a tough one, because just posting about such a thing could land me in hot water. But then im not here to play nice, i'm here to talk about gaining traffic, and whilst an attack hook is 99/100 NOT the way to go, sometimes it's absolutely killer, and can gain you credibility and reputation overnight.

Really though, careful with that one. It can just as easily go the wrong way.

Humor Hook

These kinds of hooks are just too easy.

• Search flickr, or photoshop a bizzare pic of your subject
• Post "10 thing i hate about..."
• Post "You know you're a when..."

Funny thing is, those things always get links, it's like people never seem to tire of them.

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