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50 Types of Links for Bloggers and How to Make Them.

Links, Links and More Links! Successful Blogging is all about creating links and getting linked to.

A link is a connection from one Web resource to another. It consists of a "source" anchor and points to the "destination" anchor, which may be any Web resource (e.g., an image, a video
clip, a sound bite, a program, an HTML document, an element within an HTML document, etc.).

Here are the 50 types of links we have seen so far along with the methods used to construct them................

1. Outgoing Links : These are links created by you in your blog to other sites and blogs. You need to be careful in not putting too many outgoing links in your blog lest it becomes a "Link Farm"!!

2. Incoming Links : also called Backlinks are links to your blog or your blog posts created on other sites or blogs. These are valuable because they reference your blog and contribute to your blog's Page Rank. You do not have much control over them unless you take part in a reciprocal link exchange.

3. Internal Links : These are links to pages within your site or blog.

4. Navigation Links : These are links constructed by you on the Main Page (usually in the Header) linking to important pages like "About Me', 'Contact', 'Home', 'Disclaimer'.......etc.

5. Image Links : These are images linking to other sites/blogs. These links can be optimized for the search engines by putting important keywords in their ALT tag. Do not however stuff too many keywords in there.

6. Anchor links : These serve to quickly take the viewer to another part of the same or another page.

7. Skip to Top Links : These are links placed on a long Main Page to quickly return the viewer to the top of the page. At the top of your blog in your header create a Html page element and paste the following code in it :

<a name="top" href="http://MYBLOG.blogspot.com/">

Replace the CAPS with actual blog name. Then go to Template---->Edit Html and put a check in Expand Widgets Template box.

Scroll down till this code :

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'/>

and paste the following code :

<a href="#top">Skip to top</a>

Save Template.

8. Email Links : When clicked on these links open the Compose Mail page to send mail.

9. Feed Links : These are links to your blog feeds which enable viewers to subscribe to your blog.

10. No-Follow Links : These are links which instruct the spiders of the search engines not to follow them. This prevents the Google Juice from leeching out of your blog. These type of links are found in Blog Comments and serve as a deterrent to would be spammers.

11. NO-NoFollow Links : You can say NO to the above No-Follow link and share the Link Love with your fellow Bloggers. This encourages viewers to comment on your blog. You can comment on blogs with the NoFollow tag and put your links there.

12. Banner Links : These are image links where the image is a Banner. You can exchange banner links with other blogs.

13. Button Links : These are image links where the image is a button. One example are the small orange RSS buttons you see on sites which are links to the site feed.

14. Affiliate Links : These are links where you will receive a commission on purchases made on the destination site or will be paid a predetermined sum for each person that clicks on the link (PAY PER CLICK).

15. Blogger Navigation Links : These are the links to Previous Post, Next post and Home placed by default under your posts. They are present by default in the new Blogger Layouts template.

16. Links that open in New Window : When clicked these links open in a new window thus preventing the visitor from leaving the site.

17. Links Offline : Used for promotion of blog and printed on books, visiting cards etc.

18. Directory Links : These are links obtained by submitting your blog or site to free or paid directories.

19. Signature Links : These are links to your blog or site below your signature in Forums or Groups which you frequent.

20. Profile Links : Generally when you comment on a blogspot blog your name is linked to your profile. This is a Profile Link. If you choose the 'Other' option. Paste your blog link in the 'Name' and 'Your Web page' fields which open up. Then you have your blog link in your comment. Do not forget to sign off with your name.

21. Header Links : The Header on your blog is linked to the Main Page to enable the viewer to click on it on the Post Pages so as to return to the Main Page.

22. Social Bookmarking Links : These are links placed below your blog posts to enable your viewers to add that post to their social bookmarks. For example Delicious. Instead of adding a lot of icons which increases the clutter at the bottom of a post you can add just one social bookmark.

23. Dead Links : These are links that don’t open a webpage and they don’t even show some error. This usually occurs when a server is down, the page has moved, or it no longer exists.

24. Broken Links : These are links which show an error when clicked.

25. One Way Links : These are links from a site which you have not linked to. These rank very important for Page Rank as they are a measure of importance for your blog especially when coming from a relevant site or blog dealing in the same subject as your blog.

26. Article links : These are links to your blog appearing at the end of articles submitted to article directories.

27. Press Release Links : These are links to your site or blog appearing in Press releases.

28. Deep Links : These are links on blog posts linking to other blog posts deep within the Blog Archives. For example I started this blog to help bloggers who were migrating from Old Blogger to Beta Blogger last year.That is a link to the first post on this blog.

29. Review My blog Links : These are links created to invite blog reviews.

30. Viral Links : These are links put in your blog to take part in Blog Memes or Blog Trains in an effort to increase your Blog rankings.

31. Script Links : These execute JavaScript code or call a specific JavaScript function.

32. Read More Links : These are used at the end of summary posts to expand them to the full post. They serve to decrease the length of your Main Page where you can show the summary of all your posts so that the viewer can quickly scan and choose to read only the post which piques his/her interest.

33. .Edu and .Gov Links : These are links from educational and government sites. These sites are trusted more and hence links from them are a prized lot.

34. Social Media Links : These are links to your blog posts on Digg, Stumbleupon, Myspace etc..

35. Non-Html file Links : These are links to your blog placed on Word Documents or Pdf files.

36. Optimized Links : These are links optimized for search engine spiders.

37. Natural Links : These are links providing visitors with a related resource that could be of interest to them. See my Blog Resources links in the middle column.

38. Artificial Links : these are links to improve the search engine ranking of the site. For example Links taking part in Viral Blog memes.

39. Organic Links : These are links to your blog which have been put on other blogs because the webmaster liked the content. They are a pointer to quality content and are highly prized.

40. Sponsored Links : These are links paid for being placed on sites. You will see their examples when you conduct a Google search and you will get sponsored links in the right column of the results.

41. Download Links : These are links to files. When clicked on you will get a prompt to save the file and then the download will begin to your hard disk.

42. Permalinks : These are permanent links to Blogger Posts. In the Classic Blogger template the post permalink was obtained by clicking on the post timestamp. In the new Blogger Layouts template the post title carries it's own permalink.

43. Screwdriver-Wrench Links : These are special links in the new Blogger Layouts Template. They are used to edit the widget instantly without having to go through the Dashboard.

44. Quick Edit Links : These are used to edit your blog posts with one click. You can remove them by going to Settings---->Basic. They are shown by the pencil icon under your posts.

45. Redirect Links : These are used to redirect the visitor to a different URL using the Meta Tag "Refresh".

44. Spam Links : These are links used to self-promote a blog or site. They are placed on Link Farms, Blog comments etc. and lead to undesirable content.

45. Home Link : Points to the main page of the blog. Placed on post pages to enable visitor to quickly return to Home Page.

46. Archive Links : These are links to your posts in the Blog Archives. They are placed within the Archive widget in the sidebar.

47. Label Links : These are links to your label pages. Clicking on them will bring up all the posts associated with that label.

48. Comments Link : This is a link placed at the end of your blog post to enable viewers to comment on your blog.

49. The 'CREATE A LINK' link : This link is placed at the end of your posts when you enable backlinks to your blog. Clicking on this link brings up the Blog This popup window with the link to the post placed in the Link Field and within the post. This is the counterpart of trackbacks used in Wordpress blogs.

50. Login Link : This is a link to Login to the site for members. It is seen on Wordpress blogs in the sidebar. Blogspot Bloggers can create a 'Create New Post' Link on their blogs.

If you know of any more links add them in your comments to this post.

How To Construct Blog Links?

Remove Nofollow on Blogger Backlinks.

The No-No Follow Movement has gained quite a momentum. We have already seen how to remove it from the Comments. Today we will go after the second No-Follow tag in the new Blogger Layout Templates and remove it..........

This no=follow tag is present in the code for your Backlinks. Blogger does not incorporate Trackbacks per se. Instead Blogger has Backlinks.

Blogger has the Backlinks feature which enables you to keep track of other pages on the web that link to your posts. For example if someone else posts on a topic similar to yours and links back to your post then your post will automatically show a link to the other post. To enable Backlinks go to Settings------>Comments----->Backlinks---
---->Show--------->Save Settings. These links are shown under the posts with the title "Links to this Post" next to the Comments link. Clicking that link takes you to the post page where all the backlinks are shown under the post and the comments.

You have to wait until Google indexes the post which has a link to your blog post. Then the link of that post will appear under "Links to This Post" on the post page.
This link has the no-follow tag on it. Which means that Googlebot will not follow that link back to the originating post and index it. Hence the originating post does not get any "link-love" though it has given it to you.

Here is how to give the originating post some of your link-love back. Login to Dashboard and click on Layout. Then click on Edit Html subtab of Template tab. First backup Template by clicking the Download Full Template link. Then put a check in the Expand Widgets Template checkbox. Scroll down till you come to this code in the Blog Posts widget :

<b:includable id='backlinks' var='post'>
<a name='links'/><h4><data:post.backlinksLabel/></h4>
<b:if cond='data:post.numBacklinks != 0'>
<dl class='comments-block' id='comments-block'>
<b:loop values='data:post.backlinks' var='backlink'>
<div class='collapsed-backlink backlink-control'>
<dt class='comment-title'>
<span class='backlink-toggle-zippy'> </span>
<a expr:href='data:backlink.url' rel='nofollow'><data:backlink.title/></a>
<b:include data='backlink' name='backlinkDeleteIcon'/>
</dt>

Delete the code in red and save the template. Now GoogleBot will follow the backlinks back to the original post which will also gain from having mentioned your blog/post. You can also mention in a prominent place in your blog that backlinks are FOLLOWED and thus encourage people to link to your blog/posts. See this badge I have inserted to show that my backlinks are followed :

If you want to insert it in your template Login to Dashboard and click on Layouts. Then click Edit Html subtab of Template tab. First backup your template and then put a check in Expand Widgets Template box and scroll down till you come to this code in BlogPosts widget :

<div id='backlinks-container'>

Paste the line below immediately below the above line :

<img src="http://betabloggerfordummies.googlepages.com/BacklinksFollow.gif" style="border-width:0px"/>

If you want another just after the backlinks paste the img src line code again just before the closing tag for the backlinks-container. These images will appear before and after your backlinks on the post page.

Preview and Save template.

If you want to add the above logo to your sidebar with two clicks then click on the "GET BACKLINK BTTN" low down in the right sidebar of this blog.