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When you link to different websites that discuss some topic or has something worthwhile on it, you are sending your traffic away. The other sites love it and who knows, you might get a link or two back in return.

Now, let’s say a reader is at your site for the first time. Would you rather send them elsewhere or would you rather they stay at your site. Easy answer. So why not link to different articles you have written on your own site rather than writing posts sending traffic away.

Suppose you have written a post about how you can make money online, why not link to that to offer a reader another article on your site. You may be able to hook readers to come back if they find what you have to say is useful or they enjoy your writing. Linking within your own site also helps with SEO. The bots will crawl all over your site.. sounds kinda gross, but it is a good thing.

I have just installed a wordpress plug-in to show related articles at the end of each post in hoping to give an interested reader some other articles to read instead of them bumbling around or worse yet leaving me.

So don’t be afraid to link to yourself. Have your reader stick around your site instead of sending them off.

Here is a technique when you want to build a post for digg or any other social media site. Pick a topic of relavence and use a list. There are quite a few benefits of using lists in your post:

• Reader Freindly: Lists make your post reader friendly by highlighting the important topics. You main points are outlined and the reader has less work to do to get the jist of your article.
• Surfer Friendly: Lets face it, when browsing the internet we skim articles. This is especially true for the social media site users.. No digger reads an entire article, they are notoriously fickle and impatient. Setting up a list lets the reader look at the page and absorb the important information before moving on. If you have something interesting to say that grabs their attention then they will hopefully look around for more aticles on your site and you may snag another reader.
• Highly Linkable: Lists are nice to link to because everyone likes easily digestable information and are more likely to share some wisdom with others if there is less of an investment in time.
• Clean Presentation: Readers will appreciate the clean format of an easy digetsable list.

Now we know some benefits of a list so here are a few different ideas for lists.

• Tell Them What to Do: Instructions are a perfect fit for a list.
• Link Lists: People love when good information is easily accessable, why not compile a list of your best CSS resources and present them as a post.

So if you are looking to make a diggable post to attract readers, why not try a list.. you’re new readers will appreciate it.