Linknet Help

Here are two of the easiest ways to create a content-rich blog post.

Method 1: Reprint an article written by someone else - There are different types of “content” on the web. Most articles, blog posts, reports, etc. are written by someone and are not available for reprinting. The author does not want his or her stuff just copied and reprinted.

But then there are articles written specifically for the purposes of being reprinted. You will find these in “article directories” like EzineArticles.com and many others. Authors created these articles for the sole purpose of getting them reprinted by others. This gives them free publicity because each of these articles contains the author information and a link or two pointing to websites being promoted by the author.

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What should you write about in your blog? Again, there is no simple answer to this question.

Some people advocate you try to dream up “link bait” - short provocative articles that are likely to get links from other bloggers or article writers. This is easier said than done. If your objective is to get noticed by other bloggers, or to get Diggs from readers, then you might do well to study the kind of posts that are likely to get this kind of reaction. I wrote a blog post about this a while ago called “Making Social Sites Like Digg Work For You.”

Being a bit of a contrarian and a closet academic/elitist I find this idea of appealing to the sensational difficult to do and generally phoney. It’s not me… which brings me to a major point: try to be yourself. Express your opinion - but please, try to be a bit more original than going for self-indulgent “rants”.

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This is the place to look for help in configuring, using, getting the most out of your Linknet blogging products.

PLEASE NOTE: The Wordpress information is based on the user interface use in version ->2.6

After Jan 1, 2009 all our new blogs will be using v2.7 or higher. Version 2.7 included many changes to the user interface, so the instructions included in these posts will not reflect these changes until we get around to updating them.

The consolation is that v2.7 is easier to use and more intuitive, so you should be able to figure it out more easily.