These days sidebar and footer links are useless and can easily penalise your sites ranking.
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How it works.
Add a new author for your wordpress blogs.
Request blog posts from other users.
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Accept the post written on your blog by the other user.
Result.
A high quality 100% relevant contexual link, the best links for your sites ranking.
Tips for your blogs.
Use a
widget plugin for removing blogroll and other sidebar links from single page posts. Having lots of out bound links in the sidebar will devalue the link juice passed on from your blog post link. If you use
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Make sure your blogs have an archive on the homepage, without an archive the blog post moves further and further away from the homepage, using an archive every blog post is just one page from the homepage making sure it gets linkjuice passed from homepage.
Get links to your blogs. A link from a blog with no incoming links is as useless as no link at all, use
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The better your blogs the more quality links you will get in return.