I’ve heard bloggers mention that linking to other blogs or sites is not a good thing to do. They say it bleeds off page rank and shows that you don’t have anything original to say. I disagree.
You need to link to other blogs and sites (periodically) when there is information on another Internet page that can be of value to your readers. The search engines love this kind of participation, and so will your readers. For instance, I would link to this article at ctbizblogs.com because it reads well on the same subject as this post.
Here is another great article on the virtues of outbound linking over at successful-blog.com.
Another plus your blog gets when your article links to another on-topic Internet page is this; when you create a link you are adding to the number of keywords found in your page code. In other words, when you add a link in a post, you add the URL address of the page you are linking to, which will likely have keywords in it that are on-topic to your post. You will again be adding critical keywords to your code when you title the link. This is a powerful realization. This all has to do with spider bait for the search engines.
I’ve also heard bloggers mention that posting on other blogs is not important due to the fact that most have blogs have no-follow tags for comments URLs. I disagree.
First of all; Some blogs do not use no-follow tags in the comment URL presentation. Second of all; it’s very important to keep in the loop by posting your comments on other blogs. Let em know you’re there! Let other bloggers see your idea(s) and let them see a link to your blog or site. This is critical when you are just starting out with your blog. If you are new to this and want to learn how to make a comment, just click the comments link at the bottom of this post, and leave your bit. If you don’t have a web site or blog, simply leave the URL field blank.
You might as well take out the “nice” XHTML link in your footer, as you have 47 errors, and thus your site renders differently in FF, Opera and IE, etc.
For exampple, in Opera, your Google ads at the top of a post page go behind your photo, cutting them off half-way. Lots of other niggles, too.
Yeah…..actually I see over 68 errors. Should take off that link anyway. Many blogs and sites render differently in many different browsers. I’m happy with the fact that this blog renders well in most browsers. Funny though. The Opera browser works find at my end.
Every site has niggles. (cool word)
Terry