Comments on: Who Do You Link To?

By: Stan Schroeder

Stan Schroeder — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:03:23 +0000

@everyone: thanks for your feedback. Andy: you’re right, that’s why I often avoid blogging about subjects everyone else talks about.

By: vv

vv — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:47:21 +0000

when i blog, i link to what i’m talking about (direct sources).

when i’m just spreading the news, i don’t blog — i share via google reader.

By: obiddle

obiddle — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 04:41:03 +0000

Yeah, linking to the source can be annoying…

there’s a site that can help with that, where original content from the site can be embedded on a blog in it’s entirely. If you find interesting content from listbums.com use it as a post and keep your readers reading your blog!!!!!!!!

Have a nice day :>

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:45:39 +0000

I get a bit bored with reading blog after blog that consists only of “TechCrunch reports that…” or “Blah, blah, blah (tip: Mashable)”. We all read those blogs in the first place and if someone’s got a smaller blog that just echoes them, one has to ask why they’re bothering.

If I blogged about something other than the highly specialist subject I do, I’d link to wherever the original story came from; if something’s in the Guardian, then gets picked up by TechCrunch, I’ll link to the Grauniad.

By: Stan Schroeder

Stan Schroeder — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:53:27 +0000

@Dave: thanks for the comment. SEO jokes, try telling one of those to your girlfriend (;

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:49:46 +0000

I totally agree with you on linking to good commentry over official sources. I think it depends on the context - for quantitative stuff where there’s a responsibility to lik to acurate information then I would try to link the officail source. For qualitative stuff where the commentry and ongoing discussion are the real value, I’ll link to the source which I personally find the most entertaining (in the hope that it improves *my* EntertainmentRank - SEO joke?…I’ll get my coat)

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Music Mp3 Albums - Everything about music » Who Do You Link To? — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:44:16 +0000

[…] The Zen of Steve wrote an interesting post today!.Here’s a quick excerpt [IMG link]Linking to the source is what us bloggers do, right? However, how exactly do you determine which source is the “right” source? Do you merely link to the site where you first found a news item? Do you link to the sites they linked to? Do you do research and try to find the original source? This is the dilemma that’s been bugging me for the last couple of days. The thing is, I can make it really easy on myself and just link to wherever I read the news, but is it fair to the other blog […]