10 Things About Link-Baiting That Will Blow Your Mind

I've been bothered by some link-bait titles. I don't mind the "10 ways to…" style of headline, but when it's something like "This woman died — you won't believe whose fault it was" then I find it just annoyingly manipulative. Just tell me in the headline who did what! And don't make assumptions about what I will and won't believe. Bitch.

Anyway, I discovered a "link-bait title generator" yesterday. Plug in your key words and it'll create compulsive titles. The amazing thing is that the people who run the site will then write a post to go with the headline and sell it to you! 

So I plugged the term "link bait" into the link bait title generator to see if I could rip a hole in the fabric of the space-time continuum. Here's The Top Ten Most Manipulative Link Bait Titles:

• 10 ways marketers are making you addicted to link bait
• the ten best-kept link bait secrets
• why you should forget everything you learned about link bait
• the connection between link bait and sex
• the 7 worst things you could do to your link bait
• 11 things the media isn't telling you about link bait
• 7 things lady gaga has in common with link bait
• why link bait sucks
• the rise of link bait and how to make it stop
• 4 jaw dropping link bait videos

Some of these — "why link bait sucks" and "the rise of link bait and how to make it stop" are wonderfully meta!?

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Link Bait Title Generator | Content Row

Use this title generator to brainstorm shareable linkbait ideas for your next piece of web content.

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