{"id":80,"date":"2007-02-26T06:36:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T06:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/blogging\/dont-spend-too-much-effort-on-incoming-links"},"modified":"2007-02-26T06:37:50","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T06:37:50","slug":"dont-spend-too-much-effort-on-incoming-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/blogging\/dont-spend-too-much-effort-on-incoming-links","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t spend too much effort on incoming links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/problogger.net\">Problogger<\/a> has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.problogger.net\/archives\/2007\/02\/24\/secret-confessions-of-a-link-a-holic\/\">interesting article<\/a> on the dangers of spending too much time on trying to build incoming links to your website. He points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Give it some attention by all means &#8211; but keep things in balance and realize that of all the factors that make up a successful blog &#8211; incoming links is at best midway through the list.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In general, the danger is that if you spend too much time and effort on incoming links you might end up neglecting your content.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I managed to increase the numbers of links to my blogs over time. In the process here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what else happened:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My posting frequency dropped<\/li>\n<li>Readers became frustrated with my content (which was obviously linkbait)<\/li>\n<li>I lost some of my passion for blogging and my topic<\/li>\n<li>I sold out content wise (started picking topics to write about that didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really add value to my blog)<\/li>\n<li>I started watching my metrics more than the news in my industry<\/li>\n<li>Frustration crept into my blogging when the links didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come<\/li>\n<li>My Page Rank increased &#8211; but my actual SERPs (the position of my blog in search engines) dropped<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.problogger.net\/archives\/2007\/02\/24\/secret-confessions-of-a-link-a-holic\/\">full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problogger has an interesting article on the dangers of spending too much time on trying to build incoming links to your website. He points out: Give it some attention by all means &#8211; but keep things in balance and realize that of all the factors that make up a successful blog &#8211; incoming links is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/blogging\/dont-spend-too-much-effort-on-incoming-links\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t spend too much effort on incoming links<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}