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Having a place to put links to other blogs has a similar effect--helping the search engines notice your blog. Both titles (plus the smart use of keywords in the body of the blog post) and links to other blogs help other people find you. But, if you link to another blog, be sure you e-mail that person and tell them you did it. Then, in the nicest way you can, ask them to put a link to your blog on theirs! Cross-linking like this is the best way to generate an audience for your blog, unless you have a really huge family and thousands of personal friends...
The other reason to cross-link with other blogs is because it can help you form a community of interest around your own blog. Let's say your blog is about Space Sports. You go to Google and put in the words "space sports" and "blogs". Up comes a bunch of other blogs. You link to the ones you like and ask them to do the same. Your life just became much more interesting--to yourself and to a lot of other people! Let's say you don't have a blog with something as riotously popular as Space Sports. Maybe your blog is about quilting that uses cloth made from reeds that grow on the banks of South American rivers. What? Google choked?! No sweat. Link to blogs about cloth manufacturing at home, or protecting plants that grow by rivers in South America, or any ol' quilting sites. Who's to say how you go about building a community of interest around your own blog? Do what you feel is right. Do what you want. It's your Place in CyberSpace !
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