~C4Chaos : (hyper)linker

KB101: Hyperlinks are Your Best Buddies

~C4Chaos said Mar 14, 2006, 1:50 AM:

 

Hyperlinks are your best buddies. Repeat this mantra: “Blog posts are not dead ends.” Don’t repeat too much stuff. Just quote it and link to it. Don’t quote yourself too much. You will come across as a narcissistic a-hole. Do it only if you’re an a-hole and proud of it. If you’re linking to a topic, link to the original or more authoritative sources as much as possible. Don’t link to a topic just because you found it on top your Google (or whatever) search results. Link to news sites, online magazines, Wikipedia, A-list to Z-list bloggers. Link to make friends. Think of linking like basket weaving, or sweater knitting. Weave the web. Link responsibly.

Lots of tongue-in-cheek again on the above injunction. But you’ll soon appreciate this all too common wisdom: OCH (obsessive compulsive hyperlinking) is actually healthy.

more on hyperlinking later…