Blog Linking

Reading through Startup Dunia, I realized my thoughts resonate a lot with this post about why bloggers are not linking among each other's posts as much as we should. Forgive me for my strong sentiments, I'm after all a newbie in the blogosphere, but I feel the blogging community may be missing out on the collective gains bloggers reap by cross-linking amongst each other.

The one thing helping everyone in the blogosphere is the links we create to other locations and the links that other people create to our blogs. Some of the visible advantages of cross linking, from my 'narrow' viewpoint:

- Increase in the mindshare of information among the community
- Availability of credible information, since none of us is as informed as all of us
- The more viewpoints we share, the better informed our readers (and, indeed, all of us) will be
- Increased cross-linking will drive more traffic to everyone

Agreed, every blogger explores an area that is different from what anyone else explores. But, believe me, our individual interest bubbles intersect at more points than one. At this point in time I don't have the authority to pass any judgement about the things all of us should do so all of us can benefit, but I do believe veteran bloggers will agree in the power of linking amongst all of us.

Lastly, do share your views, it helps everyone.