I would like to propose a new movement, a tribe you could say. A group of people dedicated to bringing the backlink back into regular usage within blog posts.

The back story: Just a year or two ago, before Twitter was “main stream” bloggers actually used to link to each other.

Your friend wrote a great post, you linked to it.

Someone in your niche covered a topic perfectly, you linked to it.

Times were good, great content was rising to the top and bloggers were ranking for competitive terms.

Then everything changed. Microblogging was born, suddenly everyone stopped linking to each other and began sharing stuff on Twitter. Which is fine, however bloggers are now struggling to get links and as a result getting beat on the search engines by websites which are either buying links or have an SEO team building them links through article or directory submissions.

The Proposal

I propose that from here onwards that each blog post we publish should contain at least one link to a relevant blog post on another blog.

If you want to join me in this crusade you can use the banner above on your blog, I’ll also make a list here.

<a href="http://dannycooper.org/backlinks/"><img title="Bring Back Links" src="http://dannycooper.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/bbb.png" alt="Bring Back Links" width="125" height="125" /></a>

Tribe members: Danny Cooper, Adam Mlynarcik, Diggy, John, Dragos, Damian, Freddie, Hal, ZK, Ann, Zoli, Constantin, James, Josh, Ivan

If you have any thoughts, let me know in the comments, I’m really interested in your opinions on this!

PS. You don’t need to use the banner to be part of this movement, your participation is enough!