Blogger: Create A Link (Plus Special Applause!)
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!
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 
The nicest person on the Internet
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?
- 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:
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:
Here’s what this looks like on the excellent BoingBoing weblog:
Another method is to make your Post Titles links, like on Ev’s blog:
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.comisn’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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I am totally hopeless at this Bobby
I’m not sure what you mean Amber:?:
CONGRATES TO Marzie…. YOU are a WONDER Woman
Congratz Marzie!!! I don’t think it will stop just there, mayb in a few wks more, you be top 5k..
Bobby, what do you mean by ” If you plan to make money with adsense with Blogger, good luck! Wordpress is what you want!”? What if i wanted to make money with Adverlets, Nuffnang, AdBrite, etc.. with Blogger, can i achieve that? Do I need to move to WP?
It all sounds nice and grand but where is original blog content? All I’ve noticed is a lot of linking, link love, schmoozing and nothing original. No one writes about anything real or heartfelt, it’s all about how much traffic you can all score, sorry to say.
I have 70 posts and have been blogging for 4 months. This last 15 posts have been lots of awards, linking, etc. Look through my archives there is a LOT of original content. We all just went through awards and we do have original content. You have to read more than the front page. Rule#1 never judge a book by its cover
I’ll explain in my next post:smile:
Thanks for posts like these, Bobby. I’m not all that literate in procedures like this and still fumble around. For example, I didn’t even know what Technorati, Feedburner, et all was used for… knew they existed… but that’s about it.
That, and I think there is this gigantic, unwritten Code of How to Do Stuff when it comes to blogging. I’ve been learning as much as I can, mostly from the BlogBloke (www.instabloke.com), but I sometimes find his stuff geared towards the person who has been doing this for awhile.
Somebody should compile something for the noobs…
This particular link most people don’t even know about. I had to invent the help as I couldnt find a single post on it. I will tell you while blogspot is easier to place pictures on etc. It is terrible for indexing, making money. It’s funny google pushes adsense but doesn’t mention you need wordpress to use it! The biggest crime in history and nobody sees it!
Thank you
I cannot wait to learn more from you. I’ve got so much photos to put up everynow & then. I still got more than 3 posts on my collections. I am working on the perfume one which Marzie will be glad to know. So you mention blogspot is still the better one for photos huh?
It depends on if advertising or sales are involved. If it’s just to show friends it wont matter. I am going to put up a practice wordpress site for you girls to learn on. But I am trying to find a meta-tags and keyword method for blogspot
I think that most people take for granted the fact that a lot of bloggers aren’t familiar with all the technical details that need to be taken care of. This is a great post and should probably the start of a series
.
Great work as usual Bobby
As a matter of fact, I will. My blog will an unusual mix of subjects but thats what it needs. Thanks for the vote of confidence BB:smile:
HOLA BOBBY!!! Wow!! I don’t know what to say, thanks for this, u really are wonderful!! *HUGS*
I read the comment here on lack of ori content, hope you won’t let it get u down. You have a lot of other fans who love your work, so keep on doing a great job for all of us!
And thanks to my girls for their well wishes here. Jan & Jean, you ladies ROCK!
I think it’s great to see you get there because you got there differently, and aren’t like anyone in that range. That makes you an example of what charm, friendliness and magic can do. Your my female blogging hero. Can I have an autographed marzie poster? Janice and Jean keep me company and I am crazy about them. You 3 are
Bobby’s Angels -now you need guns
Bobby’s Angels! I call Jaclyn Smith, she was my fav! LOL
Thank you Bobby, you have made my blogging journey more meaningful, really!
And you’ve made mine so meaningful and happy too. I think we are both better people because of our friendship, it’s really changed my life Marzie, I know that may sound silly, but it really has:)
Thank you
Dear Bobby,
I still don’t get how to “properly” link a blog to one of my posts. I did follow the instruction on this post, and the pop-up window appeared. But this is the part that confused me.
…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.
You mean, edit the draft with my post and publish that? or let the particular draft be a different entity altogether and publish a different post? What should I do if the post already exists and all I want to do is “properly” link something related to my post to another person’s blog?
- Sandman.
Ps. Thanx for a great read and tips.
Hey Illusionaire. when the pop up window appears, there is the title text slot, and the link text slot. They are both filled with the same address. The link address must stay unchanged, but the title must be changed so it is different than the link.say they both have
this:http://revellian.com/2007/07/11/blogger =title
this:http://revellian.com/2007/07/11/blogger =Link change the title.
This permalink is when you are writing a post because say Marzie tagged you.
What happens is after you change the title to lets say
My 8 random Facts =title slot
this:http://revellian.com/2007/07/11/blogger = llink slot
Then, save it as a draft. Go back to your site, reopen the draft
and you’ll see the link in the main editing window. That link, as you write the post must stay on the botton of the window.
After you publish the two posts are permalinked which is “permanent” If you can, when you tag someone, teach them how to do this. That way a meme counts aolidly towards your rankings. It’s actually good for the integrity of the web to use this practice. Let me know if you have any problems, I’ll be happy to help you. Have a great night Illusionaire
Hi Bobby,
I know this comment is totally off topic, but I just wanted to say thanks for the nice comment you left on my blog.
And if you do try out Feedblitz…one of the things I like about it is that it allows you to monetize your subscription page with your own AdSense code, which can mean a couple extra dollars each month.
Shine on,
Aaron
Hey Bobby, it all looks like rocket science to me
But it’s good to know I can turn to your blog for stuff like these 
Cool.
And Marzie, congrats on being a Technorati 10K Blogger !
Hi Bobby I understand your
LOL! 
Thanks for being such a great teacher! Am pleased to see others looking to u for some great tips now.
Nick, thank u my funny friend!
Thanx Bobby, i’ll try to work on it again.
Sometimes in my comment, I get a link notice from some other website that I’ve been linked to theirs. The format is :
Commenter Name : “Title of the link” instead of his/her name
There’s the title and link in the name field. So if I link in the way you mentioned, will that particular link comment automatically appear in the other person’s comment field? Or do I have to do that manually?
Sorry for the incessant pestering
Hi Bobby! nice and detail elaboration about technorati.. i totally agree with that technorati carries a lot of weight.. i try to link my post to relevant topic on other blogs when I come across reading them.. and that’s also the reason, I always try to write original, fresh and add value post every time. hopefully, somebody will find it interesting and link back to their posts… can’t wait for your next posting..
Excellent post Bobby. I must say I didn’t know about that linking trick. I’ll have to try it soon. Thanks!
Aaron: I’ll come by to see how you use it. Thankd
I learn more form you than you do me, I know my cheery little silly sally 
Nick:It’s not rocket science, but they design it to be confusing and seem like it. Thanks
Mariuca: We learn all kinds of stuff together, and we always have
fun
Beaman: Thanks! I saw that link function, but the instructions left me wondering if I was brain damaged. I still am unsure exactly the difference from a normal posed link. I think it is a permalink structured link. Does your blog have meta-tags and keywords? Thats next
No, I don’t think my blog has those things although maybe it does without me knowing. I can do template stuff but getting into the magic link thingies and tags is something I’ve not researched much. I’ll be back to read your posts about them.
I just want to understand it bcause you dont have to be a money blogger to use the info, we can all use it. Your site iwell done and very clean and looks great. If you ever decide to host yourself of let someone like me host you. The problem now is every post and link of yours is blogspot. Move and though the same posts you reissue, to the web they are as different as they could be. I lost my great hard earned technorati authority in one click. It’s worth it though
…is this where I get a free foot massage??
Love your blog Bobby, I think I’m going to learn a lot here.
Hi Faye, This will not be the norm here or has it been in the past. I’m just experimenting. Thank’s for commenting
Hi Bobby, thought I’d give u some comment love by thanking you again for being genuinely happy for me!