It is essential to give credit to authors and build your relationship with other bloggers

You find a good article on the web or a post of another blogger with a so beautiful idea. You want to blog about it; to present it to your readers and add some comments. Will you rip the whole thing; put it on you blog with your comments without reference back the original author? I hope no!

Personally if the idea came from another source than my mind, I’ll put a link to the source of information. If I found it on a specific web site and that site reference back to the originator, then, I’ll reference the place where I found it and the place where the original idea came from. It’s the way I work. I put the reference of the place that point me out a thing, and if it’s the case, the reference to the originator of the idea.

Personally I think that back-referencing is probably the most important thing you have to do while building information web pages (like blogs). The first point is to give credit to the author. It’s a simple act of civism essential for the good health of the Internet. Secondly, it helps you to give credibility to your works. Finally it will help you to build a good relationship with other authors. If I take the example of blogs, it will help you to be read by other bloggers. Why? Because most bloggers are addicted to their blog’s statistic. Usually, if he doesn’t know the reference web site to one of his post, then he’ll check by clicking on it, and he will read what you wrote about him. Usually he will eventually give you the credit back by blogging on one of your post.

The core of this healthy relationship between bloggers is the fact that peoples references-back the originator of ideas.

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