Posting a Linkback to Other Blogs

A blogger friend of mine recently started a group to support and help train new bloggers.  As we have developed a mutual friendship and blogging respect for one another, she asked me to join her little  group to help advise them.  After exploring one of their sites last night, I found a Subway Giveaway that I had not seen advertised anywhere else so I decided that I would also post it on my site.  But, I decided to turn it into a learning lesson for all the little newbies while I was at it..  Don’t worry though, this was a good thing!

After posting the Subway Giveaway on my own site, I did my usual, “Thanks for the info, VT Freebie Girl.” at the end of the post.  This serves several purposes:

1. A post with a linkback (PWLB) is my way of thanking another blogger for posting the information.
2. What is a PWLB? This means that I found something on another  site, liked it and recreated it on my own site.
3. It helps the other blogger build credibility and respect  in the blogging world, with other bloggers, and with companies.
4. It allows me a way to backtrack my information in case I need to.  I have posted a few offers in the past that didn’t work out.  I was able to click my “thank you link” and found out that the offer ended up not working out for that person either.  Sometimes they have been able to share the reason why it didn’t work out and then I was able to share with my readers.
5. A PWLB is similar to a “Blogger’s Seal of Approval” for the other blog/blogger.
6. Last but not least, it’s a way of giving credit, when credit is due.  If a nonblogger shares info with me, I still post that person’s name, but do not link it.  This way it shows that the information was not my own.  I even do this for my Facebook volunteer helper.  She’s usually awake an hour or two before me and often shares deals on my Facebook wall before I’m ever up in the mornings.  In that case, I repost it here on the website and with her  so that she gets her credit, too!

These are the general rules, about “recreating” posts found on other sites:

A better example of something that I truly created based on inspiration from another blogger is my Dishing It Up: Valentine’s Day Cinnamon Rolls.  I saw the picture of the other blogger’s cinnamon rolls on Pinterest   .  I didn’t just post her pic on my blog and some directions.  I created my own, wrote the directions and then referenced hers in my own post.  Of course, I have the sort of vision which allows me to look at something and then recreate it.  Once I did all of this, I looked at her blog post and was completely surprised to find that she had made her cinnamon rolls with homemade dough, while I had made mine from canned refrigerated dough.  I also included step-by-step directions while she included only two pictures.  If you look at my pictures, you’ll see that mine ended up being completely different from hers.  Is that ok?  It’s perfectly wonderful!  Why?  Because her post was only an inspiration for mine!