Want more traffic and links? Perhaps you need to write more scintillating headlines and blog posts.

(Definition – Linkbait: a term used to describe a variety of practices that focus on generating attention and incoming links from other sites and blogs. Some linkbaiting practices are good, many sketchy, but it’s clearly an area worth thinking about.)

One fun idea-generating tool is www.linkbaitgenerator.com which allows you to plug in topics and it will generate a series of topic ideas in response.

So, just for fun, I plugged in the term “social media” to see what would happen. Not bad! Here’s the list:
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