December 15, 2009

What are Blog Backlinks?

From http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=42533 (paraphrased):

BackLinks enable you to keep track of other pages on the web that link to your posts, and, more importantly, allow a way for discussions (or dialogs) to occur across different websites (/blogs).

For instance, suppose Alice writes a blog entry that Bob finds interesting.
Bob then goes to his own blog, and writes a post of his own about it, linking back to Alice's original post.
Now Alice's post will automatically show that Bob has linked to it, and it will provide a short snippet of his text and a link to his post.
[This is intended to be] a way of expanding the comment feature
so that related discussions on other sites
can be included along with the regular comments on a blog-post.\

[Google Blogger's] default templates are already set up with the necessary code for BackLinks. However, if you have a custom template, you will need to add the code yourself. Instructions for that are [NOT] found here.

But you can actually find backlinks code here ...