There are so many sites, and all the sites out there in cyberspace, there are millions of blogs (well, at least is is assumed considering WordPress 3.0 alone had well over 10 million downloaded.) Naturally with all these websites, some people are going to be talking about nearly the same thing. So, why not link to each other?
Linking articles are extremely important. In a way, I find it like a handshake with another website owner, telling them that I read their article and may have been inspired to continue the conversation, but also give them some type of credit. In other words – some link love. 🙂
Linking articles can do a number of things:
- Open a topic to a whole new crowd of people that would have never seen the original source
- Promotes traffic
- Could build a good friendship between webmasters
- Raise awareness on controversial topics and right a wrong
- Keeps the conversation going with people who are interested in connecting with others
While there is a lot of competition going on for traffic, even the larger sites link to articles that are valuable. It just makes sense to do so in order to cover a topic as thoroughly as possible.
In fact, I challenge you to write an article based on this topic and link back. When you do, comment here and I will add your article’s title and link in this post. Let the link love begin!
Hi Nile, this sounds good, I'll add a blog post, link to this page from my article and let you know as soon as its online.
I look forward to reading and linking back to it. 😀
Great article, thanks for sharing this. I have subscribed to your RSS feed and am looking forward to reading more from you.
Keep up the good work and don’t stop posting please.
I have been writing articles for quite some time now. I find it extremely important to link to other articles. I usually link to my own relevant articles on other sites though. If I have published at five different article sites, it is not uncommon for me to link one to the next one. It helps build authority for each other article and the main destination you intend to link to.
My recent post The Real Money In Freelance Writing Comes From Promoting Your Own Niche Websites
Agreed. Linking to articles on websites is a great way to connect the internet together. 😉
hello Nile
Nice post on importance of linking articles.This will decrease the bounce rate of once blog,which is a great way for search engines to measure reputation of once blog.Thanks for this wonderful post.