One of our readers asked a very good question today, and I would like to share her question and what my response was. At first glance you may think her question is very simple, but I feel it certainly indicates she is very wise in that she is wanting to exercise caution when linking. As a new blogger, she in my opinion, is quite smart for recognizing that importance!
Some of you may still wonder how you can propose a Link & Blog Challenge with other members. One of the easiest ways is to consider key words that your blogs have in common. As you look through our members blogs, think of key words that relate to both of your blogs, or that could be used within a blog post to create the relevancy and tie your post subject matter together.
Building links with relevancy has significant importance. Receiving incoming links from sites with page rank is of course everyones dream, but linking with relevancy is also a very beneficial focus, and why Link & Blog began. If you haven’t already been over there, the Google webmaster help center features some great advice for link building.
You may be asking, “So what really is a Link & Blog Challenge?”
Obviously we already know what a link, a blog, and a challenge are as they stand separately,
but what happens when you put the three together?
LINK: First you must have a desire to link to other blogs, regardless of their popularity within the search engines, regardless of their rank. The exception of course would be blogs that are offensive to the readers or to the search engines, but that’s a topic for another day. If we all only wanted to link to the big dogs, the little dogs would never get anywhere. In the long run we will be rewarded by the search engines by linking not only to other blogs, both big and small, but most importantly by linking with relevancy.
BLOG: Second, we all know how to blog, or maybe you came here to learn how to blog. If you are ready to blog then you are ready for a challenge!
CHALLENGE: The third component is where the fun comes in. I think the The American Heritage Dictionary says it best with their 4th definition of challenge, “A test of one’s abilities or resources in a demanding but stimulating undertaking.”
Wow! That says it perfectly doesn’t it! So we put those all together and here is what we have, and the common goal we all share:
We have the desire to link to other blogs, regardless of their popularity, but with the important goal to create relevancy between the blog posts we link with. This is for the benefit of our readers, and for the benefit of practicing good seo (search engine optimization). In order to do so, we present one another with a challenge, which will test one’s abilities or resources in a demanding but stimulating undertaking!
So there you have a Link and Blog Challenge! Are you up for a challenge? If so, isn’t it time you contact one of our members and present to them a Link & Blog Challenge?
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When you create a Link and Blog Challenge it’s very important that you remain focused on the topic or niche of your blog. Why?
