It’s day nine of the yeah write community following ProBlogger’s 31 days to build a better blog. We’re powering through each day of July including weekends, and the summer series is running alongside our weekly writing challenges. In the past week, we have:
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- created a list post
- promoted a blog post
- postponed a 31dbbb activity because life got in the way, and that’s okay
- emailed a blog reader
- made our blog mobile-friendly
- come up with 10 post ideas
- developed an editorial calendar for our blog
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Today’s topic and activity is to write a link post.
Why write a link post? Wow, they seem more trouble than they are worth
Things that are more trouble than they are worth:
- drinking too much
- handmade pasta
- trying to please everybody
Things that are worth the trouble: creating link posts designed to:
- promote the good work of others
- build SEO credibility of your own blog with internal and external links
- bring in quality traffic
- educate your readers
Promote your post that’s promoting others
Blogs are no longer the only self-publishing players in social media. There was a time when you could create a link post bringing all the boys to the yard. Before Facebook, before Twitter, before Pinterest, Tumblr all that, one simple link would catch the attention of people who searched for mentions of themselves in search engines or on Technorati. Those days are long gone, and now, in addition to the work it takes to create the link post adding all those links one by one, now you gotta let people know about your post. Promote the post that’s promoting others. It’s work, and a lot of it. But, done correctly, genuinely and in moderation, you will be rewarded with a faithful, grateful readership.
Now let’s try it for real: write a link post on your blog, then let others know about it
You can do it. Are you going to tell us a story of the day you got your first blog comment then link to the blog of that first commenter? How about that time you threw up in the back of your grandfather’s Buick after eating way too much ice cream? Surely that will lead you down memory lane to all the cars your grandparents owned and you’ll link to archived articles about each one so your readers can follow along. Of course, there’s the time-honored blogger tradition of linking to other bloggers. Handing out awards. Creating a best of yeah write grid. When done sincerely, you’ll attract genuine interest in nearly anything else you have going on in your space.
You can add your link post the the 31dbbb grid below and, if the post has a so what, feel free to add it to this week’s yeah write #117 challenge grid as well.
Courtenay – I love your list of things that are more trouble than they are worth. I so agree on the pasta. I mean, THEY SELL IT RIGHT THERE IN BOXES, PEOPLE. Linking up an old link post, because I am feeling 31dbbb performance pressure.
I was curious to know, can you have too many ‘link’ post in your blog? I had done a post before I came to this one. It was for a weekly prompt challenge. While sharing my challenge, it led me to thinking of another blog I frequent, so I posted the blog’s name and a link.
Then, I came to check here and catch up. I shared about my earlier post, giving the links, and I linked back to here, of course. I was reading from a blog on the grid and there was great information there, so I linked to it, so readers could go there.
Now, I’m wondering if there is a ‘link’ etiquette and maybe too many is just too many. 🙁 Thank you.
Yeah write is full of links. As long as each one is relevant to your blog, you can’t have “too many.”
And just like that I get the opportunity to finally write my post for a blog award from months ago. *hangs head in shame*
But at least 31dbbb is helping me right 🙂
Oh Shanique I have one of those too, half written. Im gladI’m the only one.
Meant to say not the only one. Dang touchscreen.
Quick question and a statement: I am doing the link post for a post that promotes others… but there is a red X that’s showing up in the corner. I haven’t done this kind of grid before, so I’m just curious if I did something wrong.
Also, I just want people to know they DO NOT have to participate in the contest in any way shape or form. Seriously. I can’t handle forwarding any more letters to my kid while he’s at summer camp. And I still have a bunch more posts to pimp the people who have participated — but I did want to participate in this grid — because I tried to find a way to creatively link up with another blogger!
The red x means you’re able to delete your own link if you want. That option is available on the 31dbbb grids and the moonshine grid, never on the challenge. Sounds like your boy is having a great time this summer!