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Friends in Flixya “Link to me and I will link to you”.  RSS

The topic of Blog RSS linking has been covered many times before from all the different aspects, talking from social aspects to technical aspects to traffic on your Blogs issues.

Here is the list of what I think the benefits of linking, by no way is this a complete list of even what I think. If you think key points are missing, put on as comments.

1. When you RSS to a Blog or a website, you recognize other person’s work
2. You become authority of something
3. When you RSS link to somebody else’s Blog and you put your own opinions and views against it, it creates more value. You can even correct that person if he is wrong in the first place.
4. You reference other person’s work if you are extracting parts from it.
5. You web the Internet more closely and this helps in your Google positioning too.
6. It creates a social connection. This is my favorite reason. For example when people link to me or I see any referrer coming, I visit his Blog which makes me aware of the existence of his Blog, it makes me realize that he is a regular reader of my Blog and I read other posts on his Blog and if they interest me, I normally tend to subscribe to those Blogs. This has two benefits, firstly my reading is increasing and secondly the readers of the other Blog are increasing too, as the chances that I will link to that Blog again in the future drastically increases.
7. URL linking helps in social networking too, I know many people now that I look forward to meeting when I go back to Thailand and the whole connection began just either because they commented on my Blog or they linked to my Blog.
8. Using services like Flixya, Google and Technorati, I know who all are talking about me when they RSS link to my Blog.
9. The other common benefits of ‘Tracked By’.
10. You really make the person you link to proud of himself and his writing.
11. You are sharing your readers with the other person creating a bigger network.
12. Linking RSS increases your web presence
13. One last this when writing comment add your Blog address, write a proper comment, don’t Just put ( +, 1 )

I had many distractions while writing up this post; I have forgotten few other benefits!! While writing this post I also got an invitation from Technorati by potofgold who is now in my friends list and she tells me that she is a regular reader of my Flixya Blog. So when your visiting a Blog don’t just become a friend SUBSCRIBE

For Proof to my ramblings is a Flixya Member ArtByLetters