I would like to share with about a few issues on permalinking and this will help some of those blur on this to get it right and understand the benefits of permalinking rather than linking to a person’s top level domain.

A top level domain is something like http://www.wayneliew.com and many of us, even writing about an article for example, from Wayne Liew Dot Com, have a link to my top level domain! You are doing the right thing since you are blogging about my article but not that right. There is a better way of linking. It is what I called as permalinking and what some called as deeplinking.

Permalink is the link that directly points to my article, for example, http://www.wayneliew.com/the-art-of-permalinking/ rather than my home page. Linking to it while you are blogging about the article is better because the link will be much more relevant in Google’s eyes. For an example, if I wanted to blog about the new plugin created at goldfries.com, I would have phrased my sentence as below:

I came across “Random Blogroll Plug-in for Wordpress” which highlighted this plugin that was being created by goldfries himself.

Instead of,

I read about this plugin at goldfries.com.

Noticed where the URL leads you to?

Deeplinking can give you a linkback from the article you are writing of if the article you are writing is from a Wordpress blog and the following will be examples of how linkback will look like on the source article page if you wrote about it using deeplinking. It will be called as a pingback at the bottom of the source article.

You are right, it is like a comment, and it is just that your comment will not be on my blog but indirectly, you blog about my article in your blog. With this, you can get more visitors from the article you are writing about and if the source articles are from one of the big-time blogs, you might get the blogger’s attention!

Apart from that, linking to the source article rather than the homepage will save time for your visitors to reach the homepage and start digging for the article they want. You can save their time by permalinking.

If you are thinking whether such linking method can contribute to the Google Page Rank of the source’s homepage, you are asking a good question. Definitely, this will contribute some as the article page is also linking to the homepage as well and don’t forget, you are still linking to the site but you are just going deeper. No harm will be made and I can tell you many bloggers out there appreciate permalinks from other blogs.

I am giving out these links but how can I get some?

Well, if you are giving out, continue to give out, I can tell you, the more link love you give, the higher possibility you will get one back. Spread your link love and I am sure a couple of bloggers will notice about you and start to know your blog. If they are interested to blog about what you are writing, viola! You’ll know what happens next!

Are you using permalinking all the time? After you have read this, will you use it from now on? Did I miss out any benefits of using this trick? What are your comments on this technique? I hope I can have some opinion from you all.