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Traffic Technique 6: Backlinks

ProBlogger

Search engines link to the sites they list, advertising links to sales pages, and other tools that aren’t part of the web, but are still online—like RSS and email—help us generate traffic through links. Originally they gave value to links, the link text, and the metadata associated with links, such as link titles and follow attributes.

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eLearning & Deliberative Moments: The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

Buzz Marketing for Technology

But whether constructively and defensively, interest in PLE appears to be growing. PLEs are meant to simplify managing these artefacts, creating meaning through aggregation, linking and metadata tagging (eg comments, keywords). But a PLE could host a searchable index to metadata about offline resources. Click Craft. My Blogroll.

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