Comments on: Webmasters. Listen. Please!

By: The Proper Way to Construct Hyperlinks in a Blog

The Proper Way to Construct Hyperlinks in a Blog — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:51:14 +0000

[...] “Webmasters. Listen. Please!” by tech tips blog gHacks.net requests that bloggers using the site as a resource construct search engine-friendly hyperlinks in their citations. [...]

By: iampriteshdesai

iampriteshdesai — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:37:14 +0000

Big blog or small blog, all should get the same treatment!

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:00:47 +0000

hexa I did not claim that I linked properly in the past but said that I would do so from now on. I’m not someone who asks others to do something if he is not up to to the same.

By: KallAngo®

KallAngo® — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:49:17 +0000

Done…

By: hexa

hexa — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:43:41 +0000

things that bother me is that you have been asking about this anchor to other bloggers that cites your post as the resources, but you rarely do the same. I could take a screenshot of your posts that links to other posts, blogs, sites that don’t give proper anchor links. The most often is probably when you link to an application. Instead of the name, you anchor another general term such as “program”.

I think you get what you give, Martin.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:12:25 +0000

I’m happy to do that, indeed I do when I cite sources, but I think it has to be relevant and pertinent in the context of a given post otherwise it can confuse non-SEO-savvy readers who wonder why one has linked on a particular word rather than the site name, for instance.

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:02:59 +0000

iampriteshdesai: Using a descriptive anchor name is important for the search engines but does not really matter for visitors who visit site a and see the link to site b.

Venkat: Instead of using the sitename for a link webmasters should use a descriptive link. The easiest way is usually to take the title of the story but basically everything is possible that describes the article.

Taking this for example: Webmasters could use “Webmasters. Listen. Please!”, “linking strategy”, “website linking”, “proper linking”, “linking information” or “optimal linking”

By: Venkat

Venkat — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:09:43 +0000

Martin, give an example of how a link should look like, so that every one understands well, and implements it that way.

By: Marco

Marco — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:31:18 +0000

There is an Italian site Geekissimo.com wich lives with your articles, translating what they can to Italian.

By: Dotan Cohen

Dotan Cohen — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:32:07 +0000

I should imagine that anyone who calls himself a webmster would know the value of keywords and anchor text. Still, the blatant obvious is never immediately apparent, as I’ve seen in a mailing list sig recently.

By: iampriteshdesai

iampriteshdesai — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:13:41 +0000

Chill Martin!
Quality prevails, many dissatisfied Lifehacker readers would turn to gHacks. I did. Hell of late they talk about Weight Loss issues there. LOL!!!
I hate LH, wonder how they managed to get so popular??
You don’t have to crib everytime somebody copies article from your blog. Once people identify the source of the content they would start coming there. I visited your site thanks to DLS article.
You, Digital Inspiration and other few blogs should come together and sue LH, they rob your articles.

By: tunpishuang

tunpishuang — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:35:28 +0000

ghacks is a alternative site source of my site.
but i always add a “via” tag to make it clear where the article from …

Hope u ghacks doing better

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:24:30 +0000

Will do, what’s your website ?

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:49:19 +0000

Will do.

Actually I am usually alternating between anchor links and via links depending on what fits my post better. If there are few sources it makes little sense to stuff posts with mutliply lines of long anchor links.