The Importance of Links

The Importance of Links
Links are important... but how important?

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Links are highly important to your blog, not links from other sites to yours but links from your site to theirs and to your own. First of all if you put links that link to other posts on your blog it creates a better flow for your readers to use, getting them to read more of your content, it also helps get you recognized by search engines whih is really important.



Linking to other sites creates a sense of legitimacy and is a friendly way to get people to link back. It's  also a key part of SEO, getting backlinks. But beware backlinks are only good if there from high quality or trusted sources. You can even be penalized in a sense if some shady site links to you.
You can have to many links in a post, it comes down to a link a sentence is okay but anything more than that is a little outrageous. As well as where you link to. 300 links in a post all going to Wikipedia might not be the best choice... but is a choice remember that. If your blog is nichless and the topics covered are wide spread it might be possible to have many links to posts within a single post.
Getting back links can be a challenge and in all likelihood won't be the reason for a shortage in web traffic. one easy way to get a backlink is to simply ask for one on someone else's blog. another option is to link to people that are know to link back or just link to people in general and hope that they will link back.