Comments on: The strategy to linking http://bloggasm.com/the-strategy-to-linking Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:39:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Robert Nagle http://bloggasm.com/the-strategy-to-linking/comment-page-1#comment-79821 Robert Nagle Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:51:02 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/?p=1917#comment-79821 One more thought. It's really easy for even helpful/legitimate links to distract the reader from the point you're making. If the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFE2CCfAP1o" rel="nofollow">links themselves have value but interfere with your goal of imparting your narrative objectives</a>, just remove the sucker! One more thought. It’s really easy for even helpful/legitimate links to distract the reader from the point you’re making. If the links themselves have value but interfere with your goal of imparting your narrative objectives, just remove the sucker!

]]> By: Robert Nagle http://bloggasm.com/the-strategy-to-linking/comment-page-1#comment-79820 Robert Nagle Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:47:44 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/?p=1917#comment-79820 Also, there are good reasons for not linking. Especially when the site referred to will show flashy ads or if you don't wish to give undue publicity to a writer's opinion. Also, linking can clutter up a blog post. Having two or three nonobvious links will stand out if you don't link to more. One thing NYT does which is awful is generated links not to specific articles but to categories or people in the news (and just link you to a search query). Then again, NYT has been giving us a lot of free content; more power to them for trying new things (although that Apple ad still gets on my nerves). Generally, though, the presumption should be to link rather than not to. Also, there are good reasons for not linking. Especially when the site referred to will show flashy ads or if you don’t wish to give undue publicity to a writer’s opinion.

Also, linking can clutter up a blog post. Having two or three nonobvious links will stand out if you don’t link to more.

One thing NYT does which is awful is generated links not to specific articles but to categories or people in the news (and just link you to a search query). Then again, NYT has been giving us a lot of free content; more power to them for trying new things (although that Apple ad still gets on my nerves).

Generally, though, the presumption should be to link rather than not to.

]]> By: Thomas http://bloggasm.com/the-strategy-to-linking/comment-page-1#comment-79819 Thomas Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:11:20 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/?p=1917#comment-79819 There is an art to linking. It is just another way you have to prove yourself when writing a blog - good writing, interesting ideas, relevant linking. There is an art to linking. It is just another way you have to prove yourself when writing a blog – good writing, interesting ideas, relevant linking.

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