The term ‘linkbait’ is a process or tool for websites designed to “lure” or generate incoming links to a particular site. It is there for the purpose of attracting users to a particular site or post.

Link baiting also hels in search engines, as a lot of search engines look at how many websites link back to yours, their quality, and measure your site’s value through these links. One very good example of it is SEOMoz’s Web2.0 Awards, which got more than 100,000 links.

# Blogger  Andy Hagan’ s  guide Andy Hagans’ Ultimate Guide to Linkbaiting and SMM is one of the most popular one.

# Wiep’s Guide Link Baiting: Which Hook Attracts the Right Fish? which tells you to apply what kind of link bait to apply.

# Patrick Altof’s Linkbaiting: Beginners Guide to Linkbait, is very popular as he managed 50000 links in just 11 months .

# Darren Rowse of Problogger.net also has a post on 20 Linkbaiting Techniques, which is meant to help you in your link baiting campaign which is a must read.

# Jim Karter’s 10 Tips for Link Baiting, is another link baiting guide which explains linkbaiting in easy ways.

# Jim Westergren also have a nice post at  Jim Westergren on Link Bait.

# SEJ’s Link Baiting & Effective Link Building, guide is also a must read for all.

# For niches like real estate business 21 Link Bait Ideas for Realtors, by Andy Beal is a must read.

# Todd Malicoat, one of the top SEOs in the industry has nice tips at The Link Baiting Playbook: Hooks Revisited, which is a must read for everyone.

# Also read John Chow’s guide  The Simple 3 Step Of Link Baiting, which is very simple to understand.