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Lists Of Links Are Easy To Create, But Are They Useful?

Many bloggers, myself included, like to put out posts every now and then when contain only a list of links to other sites.  Although these posts can be helpful, if done improperly they can be very annoying to readers.   As such it is very important to follow a couple of simple guidelines when you are creating a Links post

1) Give All the links descriptions- Take the time to give all of the links a sentence or two description.  Just creating a list doesn’t help anybody.  We could get more information than that off of Google.   Give a short summary of what is on the page the help people decide if they want to visit or not.

2) Don’t Link To Other Lists - Have you ever decided to follow some links only to be taken around in a virtual circle?  Every now and then you can find link posts which just link to other link posts and go 5 or more deep.  If you are going to create a post of links, be sure to not link to too many else of the same.  Sooner or later your reader should be able to get to the heart of the content.

3) Use Unique Titles - Try and use unique titles for your list.   Too often people use the same titles over and over again.  For instance, I submitted an article to Probloggers Group Writing Project and found that almost all of the sites that linked to each other used the same titles for all their links. This is bad because it can cause duplicate content penalties in Google and the other search engines

4) Don’t Parrot Other Lists - If you are creating a list of the best of something, be sure not to just parrot another list.  Go out and find some new content to add to your best of.  Remove some of the content from their best of list which you think doesn’t belong.   Give your readers some reason to browse your site instead of just going to the original list