Fee: $2,500

Link bait strategies have become a dime a dozen. You think you need some linkbait?  Maybe so, maybe not. 

My approach to link bait is based on nearly 15 years of successful link building and publicity generation for timely or new content.  I've been helping clients with linking and link bait strategies since before the term existed, so I tend to have a more strategic perspective.  I was involved with concepting and promoting several of the most successful examples of content (aka link bait) ever.  Like the Weather Channel's Weather on your site.  Like the very first Times Square Web Cam. Like Schering-Plough's Hepatitis C Infocenter.  I even helped with the very first launch of what is now called Windows Media Player. That's high quality content and if you want to call it linkbait, fine. 

More recently I helped publicize and link the new Children's Hospital Boston Virtual Stem Cell Laboratory, a highly specialized bit of link bait that now has hundreds of highly relevant and impactful links.  The odd truth about linkbait is that getting thousands of temporary "curiosity driven" links is far less valuable over the long haul than getting a couple hundred merit-driven links from the right places.  It's about quality in both directions.

My $2,500 Linkbait Coaching and Consulting includes and results in the following:

• I perform a Linkbait Feasibility Strategic Analysis, where I study and analyze your site and other sites in your niche to determine what type of content you can create that will add value and remain linkworthy over time. 
• After my analysis is complete, together we'll do some live linkbait brainstorming.  We use the phone and live screen sharing. Based on my experience I'll suggest a several linkbait content ideas and strategies for your site.
• I’ll jump start the process of promoting your linkbait, as well as providing advice as to how you can promote and build links on your own over time

What many people are calling linkbait or Link Bait, I call content. Call me old fashioned, but if you try to create a buzz (and links) by creating contrived content, the buzz you hear will be flies.

Link bait lies...
The truth is most sites are developing the kind of link bait that will have very little long term value. And a bad online promotion strategy can backfire, right Wal-Mart?  Or how about the YouTube - Chevy Tahoe experience. I'm glad neither of those linkbait ideas were mine.

Starting the process...
If you'd like some contact with me before deciding, please use my contact page to reach me. If you're ready to begin, click the below button, which will let you pay for the session via paypal. I can also send you and invoice. When I receive your request I'll email you to set a time for our first phone call. 

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$2,500 for Linkbait Consulting and Linkbait Feasibility Analysis with Eric Ward

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Eric is a promotion and link  building guru with contacts that would make the New York Times envious
- Rand Fishkin, seomoz.org
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.Eric Ward stands out as the one prominent “old school SEO” authority on link building 
- Lee Odden, Online Marketing Blog
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Those who value time and want the job done right by the best in the business flock to Eric Ward and count themselves lucky that the maestro isn't booked into the next millennium
- Jim Sterne, Inc. magazine
 

hi eric  - i will create a category for web promotion and place you in it
- jerry yang, yahoo, Dec, 1994
 

Eric is the world's authority on linking strategies
- Dr.Ralph Wilson, Web Marketing Today
 

The impact of Eric Ward's approach is optimal
- NetGuide Magazine
 

Eric Ward may well be the foremost expert on promoting Web site launches and Web event”
— Interactive PR News