Comments on: Linking Etiquette

By: Julie Joyce

Julie Joyce — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:04:21 +0000

@Dave: it is insanely refreshing to see somsone admit to being new in the field. Seriously. We were all new once…please feel free to ask questions of any of us. We’ve been very lucky to have a LOT of newcomers on the blog who state that they love it because we don’t talk down to them, so keep reading! We’re glad to have you.

By: Dave Bowen

Dave Bowen — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:53:21 +0000

I’m relatively new to the whole SEO game, and I’m finding it extremely useful reading other articles. I deal with in-house SEO, link building is one of the main things I have to do, but I was never sure exactly how to do it (apart from leaving comments on blogs – but this is a valid comment).

I have been scouring through the internet to try and get a better idea of how I can perform a great link building campaign, so any guidance would be fantastic to hear.

While reading your article things do click in to place for me, I understand your point of keeping internal links in the same window and external in a new one – sort of establishes what type of link they are.

I haven’t dealt with ‘follow’ and ‘nofollow’ as yet but I am familiar with their uses.

As for blogging, I’ve created a few wordpress blogs, but it’s finding what people would find interesting is the hardest part, or for me writing something interesting at least! ha!

I’m at that stage where concepts and ideas are floating around in the air, slowly but surely things are falling in to place and I’m becoming familiar with terms and understanding them all. As with many articles I read, SEO is a game of patience, patience is a virtue, it will pay off if you keep at it!

Thanks Julie.

By: Julie Joyce

Julie Joyce — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:12:30 +0000

Good point Ciaran…hadn’t considered the accessibility aspect of this. It kind of seems like it’s really just a preference too. Some people like externals in a new window, some people hate that.

By: Ciaran

Ciaran — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:37:34 +0000

I tend to think that all links should open in the same window – people know how to use a back button anyway, and I seem to recall that it has implications in terms of accesibility (but finding the actual research would require more digging…

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By: DaveDavis

DaveDavis — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:50:07 +0000

Well of course Julie. Besides, you have your gender on your side

Can I suggest an email notification feature for comment replies?

By: Julie Joyce

Julie Joyce — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:43:49 +0000

Thanks to both of you for your points. Now I need to get back up from falling over in shock that anyone actually read my post.

By: Anita Chaperon

Anita Chaperon — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:37:03 +0000

Thanks Julie – you’ve answered the biggest questions I had – especially the one about linking between your own blogs. I’m not about to use any of them to increase popularity (actually they’re all very new), but I really don’t want to cripple any of them because of linking practices that Google may misunderstand.

On the point of opening an external link in a new window – I agree that it makes sence – keep external links in new windos so as not to interrupt the current flow, and internal links in the same window – to minimise excess window accumulation.

By: DaveDavis

DaveDavis — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:43:05 +0000

1) To be honest, It doesn’t really matter. If I am reading some content and there is an embedded link, I am going to open it in a new tab anyway. I like most people don’t like my reading flow disrupted. For the pre-tabbed-browsing users, I think a new window should be used for the same reason.

2) I think if you know how to nofollow links, you know when and when not to use it.

Additional tips, I find that linking to people that you meet at conferences extremely good form. Eventually, it all ends up reciprocal though

Finally, I think nofollowing comments is important sometimes too, especially if the comment is adding value to the post. ;P

Great blog guys, looking forward to reading more from you.