What is a backlink and why is it important to the money blogger?

A backlink is a link on somebody’s blog to somebody else’s blog. Since counting backlinks is one of the many ways through which bots estimate the quality or popularity of a blog, understanding the art of backlinking is essential to the successful blogger. Here are some tips:

Backlinks are originally meant to point a reader to logouts that are even more interesting than the one you so painstakingly composed. All very noble of course, but the aspiring money blogger is ultimately more interested in the benefits of back linking than in the needs of a visitor. A money blogger’s goal is to have the visitor exit the blog through an ad but of that can not be achieved, then let it be through a backlink that is designed in such a way that it generates more traffic than it loses.

All bloggers are interested in how their blogs are perceived on line. A link from someone else’s blog will be shown in all kinds of reports, and a blogger who is so novel as to burst out in hallelujah’s at discovering that he’s linked to, will follow the link back to you. If he then discovers that his link sits in a paragraph full of praise, he might favor you back with a link of his own. The key here is to find a new but good blogger, who appears to be serious and qualified enough to bring his blog to a success. A link to your blog from a super blog weighs much more than 10 links from a bunch of nobodies.

The obvious hidden message here is that when you link to an article fro the New York Times, nobody over there will come to you, and you will only lose visitors. So yes, link to CNN, the Huffington Post or the Discovery Channel if you seek to educate the masses. But link to a first year student of journalism or a blog that automatically shows the backlinks if you want to earn money.