I'm new at this. I've heard and read all this stuff about links. Lets say I create a blog today. What is the linking process in simple terms. Thanks in Advance -- I really value the experise here Cheers!
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by 'linking process', but since you're in the 'Link Development' section, I'll assume you mean how do you build inbound links to your site. Really, it's all about marketing your new blog to other people. 'Building Links' means getting other website to have links to your website. The more quality links to your website, the more popular your website is, the more traffic you have. There are many ways to build links to you site. - Find blogs and articles in blogs that are the same topic as your site, and post comments with a link back to your site. - Find forums and threads in forums that are the same topic as your site, and post threads and posts with a link back to your site. - Write unique articles with links to your site and submit them to article directories. - Use many social bookmarking sites to link to all of the articles in your blog, one at a time. - And yes, use text link advertising and paid reviews to get people to link to you or write articles about you on their blogs.
You need to submit your RSS feed to some RSS directories, also submit it to blog directories and use your signature as well ;-) Apart from this you need to keep writing on your blog and participate on many other blogs.
More like Twitter, Digg, Technorati. Those are the best 3 in my opinion. Technorati is old, but they have an automated ping, and I get great traffic from them when I ping a new article. Del.ico.icious reddit.com You can use facebook and myspace as well, but they are not as effective IMO.
in a simple term, "linking process" is basically making your blog/site known on the internet. and of course there are many ways to do that. for example you could write an article and submit it in an article directory website like asociatedcontent and in the article you can leave a link to your site/blog, so when somebody reads that article(which has more chances of being red there than on your site/blog) and liked it they can click on your link and go to your site/blog, which is what you need to have a successful site, which is more visitors. of course that's one way to do that, as i said there are other methods too, some free and some you have to pay. but i would suggest stay away from paying methods now, because there are many good free ways to do that effectively. that's the whole idea behind 'linking process". now there are some other important things in it too, like having your site/blog link in big sites, gives you a better ranking in the ayes of search engines. but for now i wouldn't focus on getting into detail that much(believe me, you will learn as you go on). i hope it helps, and good luck.
Doing blog promotion with directory submission in blog and RSS submission.Also you can do SMO for your blog.