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This is a series of five short posts about writing good linkbait articles. I could have put it all into one post but that would be too big for a blog so I decided to split it to five parts.

Articles are ultimate traffic generators that drive traffic long time after you’ve published them but do you know how to properly write linkbait articles? You don’t need to be a scientist to write an article, anybody can do that, just use your own words and choose a topic you won’t have problems finding readers for. I’ll show you how to write linkbait articles in five easy steps:

2. Opening sentence
Opening sentence or otherwise known as introduction is second most important part of a link bait article. Most of us publish articles on social bookmarking websites where you submit a link to your post and a word of intro - and this is what’s important. You don’t publish a whole post to Digg or Sphinn for everyone to read the story there, you give a reader only a preview of what’s going on and if you turn him away with a boring introduction, you’ll loose a potential subscriber and a long-time reader.

You have only few seconds to convince the reader that your story/article is worth reading and you better not fail here if you want traffic. The introduction must be juicy, exciting and it must invite the reader to read more. You can base your opening sentence by three known methods that work:

- Question
Average Joe is reading your preview, why don’t you ask him a question? Don’t be shy, show him what he’s missing. Ask him “Do you know how to easily optimize your wordpress blog for Google?”, anyone would click that. Why? We all learn new tips and tricks every day and there’s no such proffesional webmaster who wouldn’t want to find out more about making his site better. Instead of “do you” you can always use “did you” like “Did you know how easy it is to optimize your wordpress blog for Google?”. Experiment, don’t be shy.

- Facts
People like statistics and facts, always had and always will. You have to follow trends and if people like statistics, give statistics to people. If you won’t, someone else will and your potential readers will surf away to another blog. Always find interesting statistics like “Google and Yahoo make 90% of online search industry”. People like to know what’s going on in the world around them, use that for your blog’s good.

- Curiosity
Start talking about a topic and just before you give out everything…stop! Make them wonder how the story ends, make them want more and they will come. Always start like you’re going to unveil the hidden mystery of a century and then just stop, don’t write anything more. Curiosity is what killed the cat they say and it’s damn true. People are curios and if the topic you’re talking about is interesting, people will visit your blog to find out more and this is what it’s all about.

For tommorow I have “body section” scheduled so if you find out more, come back tommorow.

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