In my recent podcast we chatted about Linkbait. Linkbait is simply the act of writing a headline for a blog entry or page that will generate a very high click rate and then publicizing that page. If you’re not sure how to write great headlines, start with this page of 10 Sure-Fire headline formulas that work.
If you’re writing great headlines for your blog entries and are looking for places to publicize them, check out socialposter.com. It’s a bookmarklet you drag onto your browser bar. Then you go to the page you want to promote, drag your mouse to select the text on the page you want to use as the summary, and then click the bookmarklet. It lets you easily cross-post to these websites:
Digg.com
Netscape.com
Reddit.com
Del.icio.us
Stumbleupon.com
Google.com/Bookmarks
Myweb2.search.yahoo.com
Technorati.com
Indianpad.com
Socialogs.com
Furl.net
Diigo.com
Wirefan.com
Bibsonomy.org
Looklater.com
Blinklist.com
Blogmemes.net
Bluedot.us
Myjeeves.ask.com
Simpy.com
Backflip.com
Spurl.net
Newsvine.com
Netvouz.com
Grupl.com
Blinkbits.com
Bmaccess.net
Shadows.com
Ma.gnolia.com
Scuttle.org
Smarking.com
Blogmarks.net
Plugim.com
Linkagogo.com
Dotnetkicks.com
Mister-wong.de
Favorites.live.com
Wdclub.com
Yigg.de
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