The importance of links

[mojogeorgo]

The following is from the comments to a post from the other day, but I think it's important to highlight it...

Every link you give raises the authority of that Blog... And when they link back to you, both of your Blogs authority goes up even more notches on search engines' results.

Do you ever wonder how some of the junk on the right-wing sites manage to make the top of the search engine's lists?

I have said this over and over again:

"LINK DAMNIT!"

In your Blogroll and in your diaries. Shameless links help everyone in the left community.
Connecticut Man1 | Homepage | 02.09.07 - 2:12 pm

Amazing. I know about the importance of linking as far as Google ranking (although apparently the algorithms have been changed to try to thwart Google-bombing, like the "miserable failure" thing. But I hadn't thought of that as the reason right wing crap ends up so high when you search for news stories about a Democrat.

Further thoughts here
http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2007/2/11/81932/6923

[Jonathan50]

1. It's not just blogs

Every site that contains information useful to us politically should be linked to on every post which refers to the information contained on that site.

Get the sites with the best information ranked higher on the search engines.