Helium is Now Open to External Linking
Helium now opens its doors to external linking as it allowed embedded links in its articles. Would this be an open door for writers who wants to improve views of their related articles?
Based on a thread in the Helium forum, it was September 29, 2008 when they announced that they are now allowing live links in every articles submitted.
The live linking announcement came with other new functions including the refurbished spell-check, article preview and the most awaited word count.
But what concerns members the most is the linking option. The thread was flocked with questions as to what can be linked and to what can be linked to.
Link building is one way to promote an article and improve search engine ranking. With Helium’s PageRank at 6, it is eminent that members can use this linking feature to improve the rankings of their own websites.
Embedded Link Dos and Don’ts
The Helium Team was quick to come up with these “Dos and Don’ts of Embedded Linking:
- Do use embedded links to provide sources for your articles.
- Don’t use embedded links to link to your personal or business website. Self-promotion in articles is against out User Agreement.
- Don’t use embedded links to link to adult content.”
Helium also encourage the use of flagging to stop inappropriate linking.
Their User Guide is clear on not allowing promotion like “including your name or website or your products in an article you write is not allowed. Why? The simple answer is this: Anonymity is critical to the success of the rating process.”
Helium’s rating process involves comparing two articles under the same title and rating which one is the better. Having a name or any identifying information would make the rating biased.
So what can the writers link to?
They are not really strict on what you can link to. The Dos and Don’ts are just general guidelines to show that Helium trusts their members. As long as a member is not violating any guideline, he can link to anything and to anywhere he wants.
With a creative mind on how to link well, writers can still bring traffic to their own websites and improve their rankings.
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October 29th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Another very useful article. Thanks for the information.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:59 pm
I will have to check out Helium
September 5th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Richie,
I didn’t know you were here at Triond back in 2008.
When you said:”Link building is one way to promote an article and improve search engine ranking.”
Did you just repeat these words posted on other websites or did you really know what you were saying?
September 5th, 2010 at 7:46 pm
Fornis,
I did know that link building is a way to promote articles and improve search engine rankings. I just didn’t know how to use it well at that time.
I started here on May 2008. Then I stopped writing for quite some time here because I began blogging. It is only this year again that I renewed my interest at Triond.
September 5th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
I was also out of Triond from about March 2007 to Jan 2009 although I started in Nov. 2006. But I blogged even before that. My blogging took off only in the last year when I failed at Triond after starting again in Feb 2009. I was about to mention about the importance of blogs. Now that you have already done it, its easy for you to learn.
September 5th, 2010 at 11:35 pm
Yes, I can really use the tips I learned from blogging here at Triond.
And I am also linking my blog entries to my Triond articles and vice versa.
What is your blog?