Linkbait Tuesday: aerobicstyl.cz gyms
Today we are faced with the challenge of building links to a Czech website about Aerobics, www.aerobicstyl.cz. The reason this is challenging is because the content isn’t really appealing to the gadget/tech demographic of bloggers and the content isn’t in English.
Before we start I would like to invite any health & fitness bloggers such as Everett to add some tips in the comments.
First of all it is very hard to carry out linkbait in a language other than English simply because you are narrowing down your target audience so much. I recommend publishing any article you write in both English and Czech to make sure people can link to whichever version they require. Countless tech blogs link to a Google translated version rather than the original when they reference foreign articles which means the source loses out on link juice.
If you can’t translate the articles yourself then using Google Translate is acceptable.
Sometimes the language barrier can make longer articles less likely to become a success so it might pay to write some pictorial linkbait instead.
On sites with a non tech audience it is important to explain to readers what RSS is and direct them to an email subscription form in the first instance. It is also important to not rely on social networks – this is a key concept of what people are learning in linkbait school.
Linkbait Ideas
- Create themes for health and fitness blogs
- 17 Exercise Tips for Unfit Bloggers
- How to Lose Your Christmas Fat Without Paying for a Gym
- 8 Ways to Get Fit in 2008
- Write about how January sees a stampede followed by an exodus
- Top 10 Fitness Gadgets to Avoid in 2008
- Top 10 Fitness Gadgets to Buy in 2008
- How to Save Money & Get Fit By Building A Gym At Home
Killer linkbait articles to inspire you
- Write exercise examples like this (over 3400 links)
- The 5: Worst infomercial fitness products EVER
- How to Go From Skinny to Muscular in 7 Steps (with a diet plan)
- 25 Easy Ways to Fit in 10 Minutes of Exercise
- Don’t Break Your Back! Tips to Healthy Posture
- 127 Foods That Fight Fat
- Negative Calorie Foods: 15 Foods That Actually Burn More Calories Than They Contain
- The Couch-to-5K Running Plan
- How to make exercise more fun than sex
Next week Linkbait Tuesday will be published on Monday.
Post category: Linkbait, Search Engine Optimisation, Social Media Tweet
Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Branded3, a Leeds SEO & Digital Agency specialising in SEO, Web Design, Development & Social Media.
Comments
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Unfortunately, Google Translate does not provide translations to/from Czech so it cannot be used as suggested.
Having several websites in a foreign language I know how hard it can be. Especially when you are dealing with letters that don’t exist in the English alphabet. I would however never use Google translation as it really REALLY sucks. If you have a great article hire someone to translate it instead. It doesn’t have to be that expensive.
google translation sucks!
Thanks for including me in the list. Much appreciated.
Love & Gratitude,
Tina
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Thanks for the shout out to my article on making exercise more fun than sex!
Much appreciated and best wishes for a giant 2008!
Jonathan
Lucky you! I am a member of Esporta and pay £100 a month for me and my OH.
I love the club tho, good instructors and has the Kieser M3 spinning bikes which i love and then the bar is a nice touch for socialising after a workout at the weekend.
i am paying 26.50 a month for a gym & swim membership at my local school/community centre in Edinburgh, pay by direct debit but can cancel any time. The council memberships are pretty good too with access to about 11 pools and 18 gyms city wide IIRC.
Have been told the big named places close to me are about 75 a month and you need to sign up for a year.