Comments on: Deep Linking: What is it and Why Should You Care?

By: Adam Snider

Adam Snider — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:59:04 +0000

@Amanda: Some people think deep links are bad for legal reasons? I’m not sure what you mean. Could you expand on that idea? I’ve never heard of anyone suggesting deep links are bad!

@Susan: Good article, Susan. Deep links are great for search engines but, for bloggers, knowing who is talking about your posts is just as important, as you’ve indicated.

By: Dennis BjÃ¸rn Petersen

Dennis BjÃ¸rn Petersen — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:27:30 +0000

Great post Susan. I actually thought it was standard to do deep linking. I’m glad to know that it is the right thing to do.

By: derek

derek — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:37:07 +0000

Alli, I follow the same principle with my “speedlinking” posts where I reward a few regular readers or visitors with a little link love to their main site and one or two interesting posts from the past week.

As a recommendation to others as well, try to deep link your own articles within your posts whenever possible. Often times your posts carry a common theme so try to direct your readers to other relevant articles on your own site with a deep link.

The benefit to this is that you can expose newer readers to your older posts and create additional links into those posts.

CopyBlogger just had a nice post on writing post titles to your audience, with the most important being your regular readers. I follow the same principle with my links, I try to do what should reward my regular readers the most.

Nice post Susan!

By: Alli C

Alli C — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:02:36 +0000

On one of my blogs the posts are geared specifically toward linking to sites. I usually like to the home page of the site and then the deep link is to the actual article that references the topic of the post. Is that bad?

By: Michelle Gartner

Michelle Gartner — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:56:29 +0000

I am really glad to see this post, I had been wondering how to link posts, having already seen it done on my web development site (my husband runs the content over there & I am not as tech savvy). Most of the linking, and blog marketing I have been doing have been only resulting in superficial results when I view my visitors on Google analytics. I think linking to other posts is definitely going to gain me more long term readers for my book review posts. Thanks I will try this today.

By: Jo

Jo — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:06:33 +0000

Humm interesting! Being a newbie to blogging I enjoyed reading your bost that’s something else I’ve learnt now!

By: Viv King

Viv King — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:53:11 +0000

Hi. I found this a very useful article even though I am not really clear about how to get a link to a post that is not current on my web. I will look into it though – thanks for the tip!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:08:58 +0000

A lot of people are trying to say sometimes deep linking can be bad and have negative reactions legal wise because bloggers are getting too hyped up on the legal system.. personally I love seeing that someone deep linked me .. (eh.. i feel a little dirty having said that)

it generates traffic to my websites makes me feel that post is worth something and makes me all warm and fuzzy