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Blog Tip: Create a Link Post in 3 Seconds « Internet Duct Tape — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:45:17 +0000

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Recommended Reading on Link Posts and Link Love — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:12:06 +0000

[...] Make Your Link Lists Matter “Good bloggers understand that a link is a letter of recommendation for their readers to click away from their blog to visit another that they know will be so good, it will make the reader want to come back to their blog for more.” Very good point and one often overlooked in the linking discussion I think. There are a lot of good reasons for linking out, but if you send people away it better be for what they will consider a good reason. If you can say it all better then do so and only link if someone actually adds to what you write or cover aspects that go beyond the scope of your blog. People will note if your recommendations make sense and only return if they do. [...]

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Sun, 13 May 2007 06:53:09 +0000

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By: pelf

pelf — Fri, 11 May 2007 03:12:26 +0000

I have only recently discovered the fun of linking to posts that I have found useful, interesting, inspirational and what-nots, and have resorted to presenting it to my blogger-friends on a “Read It Now – (date)” installments (see an example).

My friends may not find what I interesting, interesting, but heck, I always have so much fun and satisfaction in knowing that I have done my best to share with my blogger-friends what I’ve found in the blogosphere! :)

One thing I’ve noticed though, is that people tend to leave a comment if I shared, say, 3 links in a blog post, than, say 10. So yea, short and simple always does the trick (perhaps I should run a little test to test this out).

By: engtech

engtech — Thu, 10 May 2007 17:37:07 +0000

oh, and this also stresses the importance of GOOD POST TITLES.

I usually leave the original post title as is and write two sentences describing it.

By: engtech

engtech — Thu, 10 May 2007 17:33:39 +0000

I’m going to be develop my auto-linking software a bit more and maybe distributing it (like everything I do… I’m always amazed at how getting something to work for me is only 15% of the time effort of building something other people can use).

Some friends brought up some good points the other day that my output is cluttered so I plan on fixing that up for this saturday’s post!

By: MG Siegler

MG Siegler — Thu, 10 May 2007 17:31:27 +0000

I like to do a weekly roundup of links I found interesting but didn't have time to write about fully or didn't feel were deserving of a full post. I do a little blurb below the story explaining why I think it is significant. I call this feature 'The Tap', here's the latest as an example.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 10 May 2007 15:34:40 +0000

Excellent point Lorelle, I have done link lists around 4 to 5 times so far in the past months. And certainly, Liz and Darren always do a good job in creating them for their readers.

1. It should be in the order of, hmm, what did I read today or this week, and I think my readers would also be interested in this.

2. Gather them up as you go along through the day or week

3. Write about them and give a reason.

Simple enough, hard to do, but well worth the sanity for your readers.

By the way, I call them inspirational linking on my blog. Not important, but just another FYI.