{"id":3759,"date":"2012-04-05T10:15:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T00:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=3759"},"modified":"2012-09-02T16:50:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T06:50:22","slug":"linking-from-blog-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2012\/04\/linking-from-blog-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog post linking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent blog post, Anna Cairo stated that <a title=\"Blog fundamentals\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dynamicbusiness.com.au\/blogs\/the-four-fundamentals-of-a-great-blog-post-20032012.html\" target=\"_blank\">many links to other blogs can theoretically make your blog successful<\/a> &#8211; rather than just the blog itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/linking_together.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-3763\" title=\"linking_together\" src=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/linking_together-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Working together through links\" width=\"135\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a>So how does linking to other blogs help your blog?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>you provide additional information for your readers which they will appreciate &#8211; especially if you link to someone who gives a different perspective or technical input to your blog<\/li>\n<li>you can support your opinions and knowledge with other posts to build your credibility<\/li>\n<li>search engines give you credit for outgoing links when assessing your blog&#8217;s ranking so linking to others, especially other good blogs and posts, is good for your SEO<\/li>\n<li>the people you link to will probably appreciate your links. Many of them will leave a comment in your blog or return the favour by linking to your blog<\/li>\n<li>others&#8217; blog posts can inspire ideas for your own post so why not link back to the post that inspired you? Either as a courtesy or as a means of introducing the issue you are posting about (i.e. it saves you writing out a detailed background for your post)<\/li>\n<li>your blog is more interesting if it has variety and links off to relevant materials, whether on your site or elsewhere &#8211; and people are more likely to share interesting posts and blogs than boring ones!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So when is the last time you linked to another blog within one of your blog posts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent blog post, Anna Cairo stated that many links to other blogs can theoretically make your blog successful &#8211; rather than just the blog itself. So how does linking to other blogs help your blog? you provide additional information for your readers which they will appreciate &#8211; especially if you link to someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,321],"tags":[75,101,873],"class_list":["post-3759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-content","category-marketing","tag-blog","tag-link","tag-seo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3759"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4775,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions\/4775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}