Outward Bound Links to Other Blogs- Good or Bad?
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I think you have all seen it, a post with links to other blogs within. This has become the normal practice to share with others relevant and interesting posts on common topics and has always helps to enforce what you’re saying too.
Linking out to other blogs can help increase your traffic to your blog, Does that sounds backwards to you? Sending readers away to other sites will gain you traffic? You may be little lost right now, so let me explain and show you some reasons why this is so.
So Linking to other blogs actually helps increase traffic.
Linking to other people’s blog will help your readers find more information relevant to your topic without going search around the internet.Obviously the outbound link site will also gain visitors from the link, but you also gain from it to.
Generally when another blogger receive your outbound link they will try give back your outward bound link in some form of mention, whether its today, tomorrow or in future it may depend on your content and if the other blogger is writing about the same topic as you have.
You may even get the blogger to become a regular reader on your site and have gained a quality valued reader in addition.
Another way is by trackback, whenever you link to another blog from yours, a trackback will show within the comments section of the post. This may create additional visitors as people will click on the track back link.
Word of caution always link out wisely
Never link out for the sake of linking to people, because your readers will notice. There no points I now link out to my friend’s website on scuba diving when were talking about Outward Bound Links. When you add a link you are recommending to your readers that the other blog as quality content relevant to them.
Link to posts with valuable and quality content, also don’t just stick with the A-lists blogs in the hope of a dream backlink to your site which will give you huge additional viewers. As you need to remember they get hundreds if not thousands of links daily and they may just miss you out. Small bloggers do have fantastic content and these are the people who will respond and return a backlink in future. I have found that many of the small to medium bloggers will track every mention of their site online and will ready explore your site and give a comment or two along the way.
Make the effort to look for new bloggers out there, I try this at least for one day a week I will search for new blogs and bookmark them. By adding their post to an outward boundlinks I have created another potentially new traffic.
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Of course there should be outward bound links on blogs. In fact I find I do not have enough. An authority site can many links to it as well as out and still have high PR. As you mentionned they have to be related to the article or the blog’s subject.