Comments on: A link is worth a 1,000 words http://attributor.com/blog/a-link-is-worth-a-1000-words/ Just another WordPress site Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Search◊ Engines Web http://attributor.com/blog/a-link-is-worth-a-1000-words/#comment-7 Search◊ Engines Web Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:14:46 +0000 http://attributor.com/blog/?p=23#comment-7 Having posted quotes from news articles hundreds of times on forums and blogs over the years - EVERY quote was accompanied by a link back to the original source. Even posting a comment or a thread. Over the years, this has generated TONS of traffic to those resources. This was done out of a sense of ethics and empathy. It is interesting that sites like DIGG and Reddit require a link to the source - but some members try to bypass that too. Having posted quotes from news articles hundreds of times on forums and blogs over the years – EVERY quote was accompanied by a link back to the original source.

Even posting a comment or a thread.

Over the years, this has generated TONS of traffic to those resources.

This was done out of a sense of ethics and empathy.

It is interesting that sites like DIGG and Reddit require a link to the source – but some members try to bypass that too.

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