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Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

Dave Doolin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:59:25 -0000

Ok, I see what you're saying. I'm doing something slightly different. Thanks!

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

AndyBeard — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:25:40 -0000

The problem is that on most blogs a link left in a comment, or even the default website link when filling out a form has a nofollow, and people copy the whole html, including rel="nofollow"

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

Dave Doolin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:55:05 -0000

Linking to comments:

I'm not sure if I follow you exactly here.

What I'm doing at the moment is citing comments from another post by the link to the comment.

I plan on maintaining these links using Broken Link Checker WordPress plugin, delinking them if they disappear. (Or just removing the citation.)

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

Lifespan Fitness — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:40:19 -0000

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Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

Lifespan Fitness — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:40:19 -0000

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Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

Lifespan Fitness — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:47:41 -0000

I must say I agree with everything you said in pretty much every single way. I guess it is really bad when you don't bother to actually go forward and get the most you can out of a link. You could get traffic and a lot of long term benefits. But for some reason it just clicks in with laziness and you don't bother to fix it at all even though you know you should.

I also think it is best to give people the best link possible because what you give them will come back to you so if you want a good link you darn well better give them a good one. It is best to give a good title and message as that will help you the most and will give you the best return result. Take the lazy mindset out of your game and you'll be soaring.

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

Lifespan Fitness — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:47:41 -0000

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

Miami Web Design — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:25:23 -0000

Great post! I was hunting for references to help educate a client about the importance of her linking structure and this article had 9/10ths of what I was hoping to find for her.

Definitely adding you to the feed reader. :)

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

Miami Web Design — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:25:23 -0000

Great post! I was hunting for references to help educate a client about the importance of her linking structure and this article had 9/10ths of what I was hoping to find for her.

Definitely adding you to the feed reader. :)

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

K-IntheHouse — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:25:53 -0000

I have seen a lot of people link to the Feedburner redirect links for not wanting to click away from their feed reader to grab the actual post URL especially when the post in the feed doesn't have a Permalink in it.

However, it is surprisingly easy to turn off Feedburner Redirects. Andy, I see you have that turned off but there are still a lot of bloggers who haven't made it easy for others to link to them.

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

K-IntheHouse — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:25:53 -0000

However, it is surprisingly easy to turn off Feedburner Redirects. Andy, I see you have that turned off but there are still a lot of bloggers who haven't made it easy for others to link to them.

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

Chino Yray — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:04:23 -0000

oh sh**

I do some of those. Not the google linking though.

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

Chino Yray — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:04:23 -0000

oh sh**

I do some of those. Not the google linking though.

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

Shawn — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:00:17 -0000

What I don't understand is why people use those horrible Google search generated links. I mean, I know why they do it, they're in a rush, just as you said, but still, there's so much to gain from actually going to the page and reading it! I like to create link posts about once a week to articles I found and think my readers might find interesting. You don't just slap a link in a post and hit publish. Why do you like it? Why do you recommend others read it? How has this linked article affected you? It helps readers gain trust and see the value in what you do if you explain things. Also, another good reason to click through, two words: Trackback. Ok, only 1 word, but sounds like 2 ;)

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Shawn — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:00:17 -0000

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

lucia — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:53:42 -0000

I generally link to the top of a blog if I am discussing the blog in general but try to link to the article if I am linking the article. I usually try to use some sort of meaningful anchor text. (There are times I don't do so. For example, if I want to link 10 people who discussed something so readers can find that, I might just say something like "many bloggers are discussing 'x' (1,2,3...)" with the number as anchor text.

I did this long before I learned of SEO. I tend to give proper links as a favor to readers.

Admittedly, in the cases where I linked a blogger in a series of '1,2,3...', the blogger might wish I'd given them better anchor text, but the alternatives are to impede the flow of the text or to give out no links at all. I think my readers are likely to want to read the links and the bloggers would probably prefer the link with bad anchor text to no link, so I do sometimes do that.

I also nofollow some links in posts; some web sites and blogs deserve that. :)

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

lucia — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:53:42 -0000

I did this long before I learned of SEO. I tend to give proper links as a favor to readers.

I also nofollow some links in posts; some web sites and blogs deserve that. :)

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

deni2s — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:42:22 -0000

Nice article!

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

deni2s — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:42:22 -0000

Nice article!

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

WebGeek — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:37:17 -0000

Andy, thanks for writing this. These are great tips and I couldn't agree more. Your blog has some great info - you just got yourself another subscriber. Take care.

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

WebGeek — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:37:17 -0000

Andy, thanks for writing this. These are great tips and I couldn't agree more. Your blog has some great info - you just got yourself another subscriber. Take care.

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

AndyBeard — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:33:43 -0000

Lorelle I will get that fixed, even if it is just for you - your links are golden.

I do have the links available near the bottom of the pages in various easy to use forms, but not the post title on single pages.

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

AndyBeard — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:33:43 -0000

Lorelle I will get that fixed, even if it is just for you - your links are golden.

I do have the links available near the bottom of the pages in various easy to use forms, but not the post title on single pages.

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

Lorelle — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:38:27 -0000

One of the big link mistakes many make is not having their post title in a link, even on the single post view.

1. It's a quick grab with a link copying utility like Firefox's CoLT (Copy Link) Extension to grab the link of the post title and paste it in your blog post for fast referencing.
2. If the page is saved to the computer, it now has a permanent URL to get back to the original online version through the post title.
3. If the page doesn't load right, refresh would work, but sometimes clicking the post title reloads it nice and lovely.

Oh, there's more, but for those of us power bloggers, grabbing the post title off a multi-post view or single post view for copy and paste into our blog posts takes the tediousness out of writing out the link or putting it into a button/popup window, it's the most important reason. Let nothing get in the way of us blogging about your blog post. ;-)

Re: Linking Mistakes Frequently Encountered On Blogs

Lorelle — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:38:27 -0000

One of the big link mistakes many make is not having their post title in a link, even on the single post view.