This is one in a series of posts for mastery of del.icio.us and assumes you have a working knowledge of the system. For a complete listing of all you can do with del.icio.us, read through the help documentation. 1. Add a linklist to your blog! You need to stick del.icio.us links on your site, because it's important for a lot of different reasons. This may seem like a trivial matter, but a list of links can really help your creative process. Plus, it can help your site remain relevant in Google. Plus, it makes a dandy page to impress the kids! Part of the simplicity of del.icio.us is that it tries to make it as simple for anyone to put your links on your site. One line of javascript and you can get the latest links on your site. Set it up on this page, and then transfer it to your page. There's a lot of customization you can use, and it will take just a little customization to make it look good on your site. Obviously, you've got the knowledge that it's easy to put links on your site. Easy to customize, easy to implement - but you want to know what's in it for you? You wouldn't read this far if you didn't. It all has to do with rhythm, and your blog has one, if you didn't know it. Most posters aren't the great thinkers of the internets, and most posts are less than 256 characters - perfect for del.icio.us. Ever seen a post, thought it was pretty funny, then did this:

Wow, this is pretty funny.

That's your whole post? That's just what you need a list of links for, to cut down on those wasted posts. Now, if your name is Glenn Reynolds, or you have raging comment sections, you can get away with this (I'm looking at you, Atrios), but for the 99% of us who don't have faithful link followers (or comments), you're doing a disservice to yourself, and to your SEO, but having throwaway posts. For almost all of us, we have more links going out that coming in. A linkfarm like your blog can actually harm your prominence in Google's search results if it discerns that you're just linking to everything on Earth. Since you're only using a finite number of links, you aren't going to appear that you're a link clearing house. In fact, right now, I've got over 500 links on del.icio.us, but you only see 15 on this site, and only on one page. If you get a sidebar plugin for WordPress or Movable Type, it'll show up on every page, but still, it's only 15 or so links. Now, I made mention that the kids dig the pages of links - it's because they do! Fark.com is essentially just a list of links, so is Digg, and many other of the most popular entertainment websites are simply lists of links. Fancy, with comments and voting, but essentially just lists of links, and people go to them everyday just to read the links. When I was setting up With a linkness, I figured it would be okay, but I figured the RSS subscriptions would dwarf the people going to the page, and I was partially correct. What I did not foresee was the del.icio.us network (sneaky link), where people can add you to a single page with all their contacts. I get a lot of traffic when I link to my site from other people's networks, so I know that's the entry to where a lot of people who don't use RSS feeds to find new links. Read all the posts in the 5 ways to more deliciousness 1. Add a linklist to your blog! 2. Add the feed to your feedreader! 3. Add me to your network! 4. Add a license to your links! 5. Use it.

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author: John Stansbury
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