Quick Tip - Always add a link back to your site within blog posts - Read why:

by Venturetothetop

Posted: 13 years ago 10 replies

Here is a quick tip why you should always add a link back to your site within your blog posts.

I recently started guest posting on Yaro Starak's blog Entrepreneurs Journey.

Within a day of it going live I have tons of trackbacks to my blog (trackback is a link back to my blog).

It seems that tons of websites has just scrapped the content completely, but had left the links intact.

They just took the entire content but naturally cut my bio box off the bottom.

The very fact that I added a link within my post did a number of things:

1) It helped notify me of all the sites that had scraped my content (with knowledge there is power)

2) People actually read these scrapped sites and I have had a trickle of visitors to my main site because I left a link at the very top of the article which encouraged them to go to my site to learn more about me before trusting my advice in the article.

3) However weak the backlink, if I cannot stop people scaping my content I should at least benefit a little from it

You can not perhaps stop scappers, but I'm glad at least even scapped content in this case still resulting in some traffic to my site.

I will never wirte another blog post on my site again within ensuring I bury a few links within it.

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animesh 13 years ago

You are right.. Once, one of my competitor was using my blog feed to autopost on his site, so I used feedburner - summary optimization, where I create a link and now each feed contain a link to my site..
After some time, he stop publishing me feed.
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- Barbara Brenner 13 years ago
  
  Thanks for this info. Very cool.
  
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ladywriter 13 years ago

This is something I wouldn't have considered. I know a lot of the big bloggers do this but I didn't realize this may be one of the reasons they do.

Thanks for the heads up!
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- DamenRabat 13 years ago
  
  Does leaving a link inside your post the permission of the blog owner or are you free to do as you please? ´cause this is very intriguing
  
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  jvjoe 13 years ago
  
  This is cool, thanks for the tips
  
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Chris Munch 13 years ago

Yes very true. Also might be a good idea to include the rel="canonical" tag in your links.

This should especially be done where you put a link back to the original article in the RSS feed - while many scrapers will remove this, those that don't will help Google know yours is definitely the original and there's is the copy.

Regardless you should be linking to other pages of your site within posts regardless - it helps with SEO while also encouraging readers to click through to more pages, which increases pages views, builds the relationship with the reader, lowers bounce rate, etc. etc.
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- Venturetothetop 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Chris Munch
  
  Yes very true. Also might be a good idea to include the rel="canonical" tag in your links.
  
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  Chris feel free to elaborate on the tag, as I have no idea what it refers to or how to use it. EDUCATE ME NOW!!!
  
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  DamenRabat 13 years ago
  
  Would also like to know about the canonical tag and what it does.
  
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Fraggler 13 years ago

It tells the search engine that the link is the preferred source for that info. It is for on-site SEO (when you have multiple pages about a subject on your site and you want the search engine to rank Page A and not Page B) and have never heard of it being used for off-site backlinks before.

Sounds good in theory but does it really work the way you think it does?
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Ian Varnava 13 years ago

You're right. Yoast's Wordpress SEO Plugin automatically does that, once you configure it to do so. It will add anything of your choice before and/or after each post being 'syndicated/scraped/rss-ed', so even if scrapers don't link back to you, or remove your by-line, they're the ones a**ed-out in the end anyway.
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