Steroids is bad but in the link building game it's good.
This article from the sitepronews blog.
Quote: The most significant and perhaps the hardest part of website optimization is link building. Website promoters beat the bushes trying to discover the blooming valleys of premium quality links to pick up some juicy links there. However, it isn’t that easy and quite often all efforts may be in vain.
But as the saying has it: “If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain!” If you can’t get links from well-established websites you can encourage them to link to you themselves! One of the ways you can build up tons of links is by producing premium quality content that may potentially go viral. This SEO technique is generally referred to as link baiting. Generally it’s about enticing website visitors to promote your site via links from their own sites.
Here are the high spots of the link baiting techniques that may encourage anyone (be it a well-known blogger or the Average Joe) to link to your website: Continued at: Put Your Link Building on Steroids
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Link baiting is obviously one of the best backlink building tactics.
I just think that it is really hard to link bait effectively, you gotta have a very creative mind. Link baiting is very tough, but if it is done right and enough times you will have a lot of backlinks very quickly. If link baiting were easy then everyone would be doing it, then it would become the norm and it wouldn't be called link baiting anymore. The hardest part is coming up with and then executing a great idea for link baiting. link Baiting is very essential part for SEO you just need to be up-to date your self while writing the content. I got two comments on link baiting
one: it will depend on how good is your content
two: It can give good results if your content is good
Bottom line: If you can make a good content for it then go for it but if you can't, find someone who can, if there's no one to turn to or even hire then its time to learn how to create a good content for link baiting.
I liked the title of that article, I'll take those steroids please.. I think when there are many other easier ways than link bating, most webmasters (specially newbies) prefer to use those methods for promoting their websites. But as all of us know, link bating is a powerful way that can help for promoting websites well.

This article from the sitepronews blog.
Quote: The most significant and perhaps the hardest part of website optimization is link building. Website promoters beat the bushes trying to discover the blooming valleys of premium quality links to pick up some juicy links there. However, it isn’t that easy and quite often all efforts may be in vain.
But as the saying has it: “If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain!” If you can’t get links from well-established websites you can encourage them to link to you themselves! One of the ways you can build up tons of links is by producing premium quality content that may potentially go viral. This SEO technique is generally referred to as link baiting. Generally it’s about enticing website visitors to promote your site via links from their own sites.
Here are the high spots of the link baiting techniques that may encourage anyone (be it a well-known blogger or the Average Joe) to link to your website: Continued at: Put Your Link Building on Steroids
Any comments on this article? Do you disagree with anything mentioned or think not enough information was provided? Don't be shy in this thread.

I just think that it is really hard to link bait effectively, you gotta have a very creative mind. Link baiting is very tough, but if it is done right and enough times you will have a lot of backlinks very quickly. If link baiting were easy then everyone would be doing it, then it would become the norm and it wouldn't be called link baiting anymore. The hardest part is coming up with and then executing a great idea for link baiting. link Baiting is very essential part for SEO you just need to be up-to date your self while writing the content. I got two comments on link baiting
one: it will depend on how good is your content
two: It can give good results if your content is good
Bottom line: If you can make a good content for it then go for it but if you can't, find someone who can, if there's no one to turn to or even hire then its time to learn how to create a good content for link baiting.
I liked the title of that article, I'll take those steroids please.. I think when there are many other easier ways than link bating, most webmasters (specially newbies) prefer to use those methods for promoting their websites. But as all of us know, link bating is a powerful way that can help for promoting websites well.