While browsing through my daily RSS feeds about blogging strategies, tips and tricks from fellow bloggers, a blog entry on ‘Lorelle on WordPress’ caught my attention this morning: “Why A Link Post Should Be Like Mingling at a Party” seemed like a catchy title to me and so I opened it.
Lesson #1: Write catchy titles if you want to be read, but not just ‘any catchy title’ - more about that in a future blog post.
Jan, a guest blogger on Lorelle’s blog eloquently writes about the necessity to consider any link you might want to include on your own blog as a new friend you are introducing to other friends (your readers). Here is - in essence, Jan’s advice to blog entries containing links:
” When you write a link post let people know what you are linking to, why you link to it and what’s in it for them. Make clear that it is relevant and why. Qualify what you link to and you will find that people appreciate that they are better able to pick what interests them. That they are not clicking away unprepared. That they enjoy exploring what you present and don’t find themselves wasting their time. The right introduction may just be the difference between a good experience and erratic clicking to find the suggested great reads. They may be great in their own right, but if they aren’t what I like or seek I probably won’t even care.”
Lesson #2: Consider links you add to your blog as ‘a new friend’ you will be introducing to your readers.
You may access Jan’s original article here - it sure makes for a good read for those inviting a lot of ‘new friends’ to their blog readers and striving for improving their writing skills… 
What do you think about this? Certainly, there are ‘links’ and ‘links’ - should they all be treated the same? Do you treat a link like a ‘new friend’ or does this seem a little far fetched to you?
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