Mark Spearman

In continuation of my review for 31 Days To Build A Better Blog, day 7 informs us to write a link post. Good idea and easy enough.

The idea is to give some other bloggers attention in hopes that you’ll make some friends. It’s suppose to help your search engine rankings too.

There are many ways to use this to create a post worth reading. The idea that is most important is that you want to build on their work. Simply linking to it doesn’t do much good.

I don’t care to see just a link, just a video to a song, or just a reference to anything. Tell me why you are sending me to a link or placing a video in your blog and what you think about it. It doesn’t take much work. If you don’t do this, why even blog? Why not just go to a book marking site and tell me to check out your bookmarks. It’s no different. I find the simple links most disturbing when in general, the person has a great blog, but I have to sift through all of the favorite links to get to the good stuff.

It’s ok to write that you disagree and why, agree and why, or add additional information. Just remember to add the “why” or addtional information.