Before I get into it, My friend Marzie is now a Technorati 10k blogger!

How did she get there? With a little help and a heaping load of friendliness!

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Congratulations Marzie! Going from 37,000 on June 10th to 10,000 today. One month of viral linking, schmoozing and being herself got her where others cannot. I am so Happy for her :smile: The nicest person on the Internet

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LINKING USING BLOGGER”S CREATE A LINK

Linking, and being linked to properly is one of the best ways to get your blog noticed and indexed by search engines. It can also be detrimental to your page ranking. This post is for blogger users. Personally, I recommend Wordpress. You cannot add meta-tags to your home page and do all the cool key word optimizing with blogspot. Someone probably can but it’s not common.

How do you know who links to you? Through Technorati. You should check to see all of your blog reactions. I know one blogger who gets 150 or more comments per week, writes great posts and is almost a legend to this individual’s fans. Why is this person’s technorati authority only 45? In the grand scheme of the entire web, their blog really isn’t easy to find. I know this guy who never writes a post, hardly reads anyone else’s blog and has a technorati score of 290. You can type his name in any browser and there are thousands of references to him. He is indexed very well.

Who cares, and what does this have to do with chocolate and making a girl writhe in ecstasy from a foot massage anyway? :smile:

  • If you link to someone, link directly to their blog or a blog post. Don’t link to their blogger profile page or their MyBlogLog page. Trust me, Mybloglog has plenty of links!!!!!
  • If you use FireFox, install the web developer tool bar. You can view every link in a nice list. Know who is linking to you. People can display stuff from your site like you are Image Shack. They can mess you up! The RankQuest SEO toolbar is also pretty cool, but with blogger, most of it’s functions are useless. If you plan to make money with adsense with Blogger, good luck! Wordpress is what you want!

How do you properly link to a post on another blog using the new blogger? For example:

  • If someone tags you on a meme
  • If you need to link to another post
  • If you want a reference to another post

It seems like an easy thing to do but I have noticed lots of bloggers doing it incorrectly! I will explain step by step how to do this for those of you who don’t know how to use the “create a link” function.

Someone tags you and you want to link to their post, what do you do?

  • Go to their site and bring up the post you want to link to.
  • Click on the post title. This hopefully will bring up the post on its own page with the comments at the bottom.
  • Look near the bottom for the create a link or create a link to this post. Click on it A new pop up screen appears.
  • You will see that you are creating a new post on your blog and both the title and link boxes are filled. Go to the title box and change it to whatever title you want to name your post. Do not leave it unchanged because you will want a different title than the post you are linking to. Save it as a draft.
  • Write your post and publish.

After you publish, go to the blog you linked to and click the title. At the bottom you will see “links to this post” and now your blog is listed as one of the linked blogs!

These are the instructions from Google. They can be confusing for a lot of people:

What does the Link field do?

The Link field can be very useful if your blog posts are frequently about other articles, and you want the links to these easily spotted on your public blog.

To enable the Link field, go to Settings | Formatting and scroll all the way to the bottom, then set Show Link Field to Yes then click the Save button:

Screenshot: Settings | Formatting | Show Link Field

Then, paste this code into the appropriate place in your template: (the little code below goes in the post template box under settings: formatting. I know a few people that searched for weeks trying to find the place the instructions refer to! If you are using the new blogger with an xml template, you’ll never find it. Why didn’t they just say the post template box?)

">Link

The “posted by” line is usually a good spot for it, but be creative:

Screenshot: URL code in a template

Here’s what this looks like on the excellent BoingBoing weblog:

BoingBoing Link tag example

Another method is to make your Post Titles links, like on Ev’s blog:

EvHead Link tag example

Here’s the code for doing it this way:

    "><$BlogItemTitle$>

Notes:

  • You must specify a protocol when using the Link field, i.e. http://www.blogger.com � www.blogger.com isn’t sufficient

I really don’t know if I’m doing it correctly, but it works. This is one of those easy little things that many people never use:)

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