Backlinks: What are backlinks and how do I use them ?

What are backlinks and how do You use them ?

The Quick Answer

*.Backlinks display other web pages that link to your posts.

*.To enable backlinks on your blog go to yourSettings | Posts and
comments tab and select "Show"


What are backlinks ?

Backlinks enable you to keep track of other pages on the web that link
to your posts.
For instance, suppose Timmy writes a blog entry that Funmy Kemmy finds
interesting. Funmy kemmy then goes to his own blog and writes a post
of his own about it, linking back to Timmy's original post. Now
Alice's post will automatically show that Funmy Kemmy has linked to
it, and it will provide a short snippet of his text and a link to his
post.

What it all works out to is a way of expanding the comment feature
such that related discussions on other sites can be included along
with the regular comments on a post.

*How to use backlinks

The backlinks setting can be found under the Settings | Posts and
Comments tab, and consists of a single, simple option to turn it on or
off:

Our default templates are already set up with the necessary code for backlinks.

However, if you have a custom template, or one of our templates from
before this feature was launched, you will need to add the code
yourself.

Once everything is set up, you'll see a new link marked "Links to this
post" next to the comment link for each post.

If you click that link you'll be taken to the post page, where the
backlinks are all listed beneath the comments.

Clicking the triangles next to each link will display a snippet of
text from the page linking to you, as well as some author and date
information.

If you want to turn off backlinks for individual posts, you can do so.
The process is the same as that for turning off comments.

Just edit the post in question and change the options that appear in
the Post Settingssection:


Notes:
*.For the curious, this feature is based on the link operator of Blog Search.
So sites linking to your blog will need to be indexed by Blog Search
and there may be a slight delay before the backlinks appear on your
blog.

*.The comment notification email setting does not apply to backlinks,
so you will not be notified of new links when they appear.
This is because these links are looked up on-the-fly each time you
view an individual post.

*. In lieu of comment notification, you can use Blog Search with a
query such as link: your-blog- here.blogspot.com, and then subscribe
to the results. That will have a similar effect.