There were lots of new material to blog about that I and Dr. Meinardus were not able to completely cover in the last FNF seminar. One topic I’d like to share with you here is about the Best Practices in Linking.
- When mentioning a blogger in your post, link to his main domain.
- When referring to a blog entry, link directly to that entry (via permalink) and not to the main domain.
- If you mentioned a blogger several times in an entry, link to him on the first instance and you can leave the rest un-linked.
- Make your links distinguishable from your regular text. The standard underline is good but you can opt for other ways like colors, font, text decoration, etc. What good is a link fi your readers can’t identify them.
- For rare words, Wikipedia is your best friend. Dictionary.com will do as well.
- Link to the original source but don’t forget to add links to blogs you first read the news. Ex. : (via Yuga)
- Check and verify that the links are working.
- For multiple links to a single text, use an enclosure like this: (see here, here and here)
- Send a trackback if you are linking to a blog that allows it.
- Lastly, don’t force a link if there’s really nothing to link to.
A link is a vote of confidence and a sign of respect. Always give some link lovin’.
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My practice, to help the search engines index the sites I link to: choose good keywords when linking to the permalink. When in doubt, use the post title.
Of Topic Here, but maybe you can review this friendster slash multiply slash blogger service that might become big… Oh and actually I tried it its fast in loading and fairly easy to use…
Click Below:
Http://www.ipals.com/index.php?ref_id=master
hmmm…check on everything.
hi yuga, i’ve been reading your blog for almost a year now and this is my first comment. i just signed up at blogger.com to have my own blog, and since i am new to this, i’m still in the process of learning the in’s and out’s of blogging. i hope i can ask for some tips from you once in a while. thanks.
btw, i’m an ofw here in riyadh and searching for every information regarding business and investment that might interest aspiring entrepreneurs like me. That will be the materials that i will be posting on my blog.
@ migs : you should see what Measuremap can do too.
@ demonhale : looks good.
but the bigger question is “do we really need another MySpace?”
@ kaye : nice!
@ leo : great to have made yourself known. shoot me an email if you have some questions.
Permission to link to your site? Thanks.
Thanks for the link, leo!