Damien at the Speed of Life

I’ve developed some backlinks understanding and wanted to share it with you. Pre-1995 thought tells us that people visit a website when they see it advertised or if they find it through a search. The advent of Google and blogs has brought about a different thinking since 1995 and that is this:

People will come to your blog through text-links, blogrolls, social media (I know of at least 150 big players) direct reference in a post or in a review … and many more ways.

A related issue is advertising. We used to think advertisers paid when you had good roadside real estate that a lot of people saw. That is still somewhat true but now there is a whole new internet advertising market that pays to be effectively “linked” and picked up by Google. My dad recently asked me how I make money on my blog. When I told him about the reviews and ads he was surprised that I didn’t get paid only when people clicked on a product like they used to c.1995 when the affiliate stuff was just starting.

Here’s the point of all this folks:

The more backlinks you have, the more traffic you get.

I care about the content I publish more than most people, but I also recognize that blogging without an audience and SEO to bring people is rather pathetic. You might as well be writing in a journal you keep under your bed that no one reads. I read on the web constantly how people say “I don’t care if people read my blog, I don’t care about traffic.” I think I either don’t get their comment and need to hear more about why they say that or I think they are pretty much idiots. I mean why would you spend the time to publish your words when you didn’t care who read them? The fact is peeps is that all bloggers care about what people think of their words and all bloggers want their analytics and circulation to be as big as possible.