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Retweeting Is The New Linkback – Could It Be?

Source: SheGeeks

Aug 10, 2009

Summary

Since the rise of services like Twitter and FriendFeed, blogs have been at war with them. Last year, the war turned into bloodshed as linkbacks to blogs started to decline, while retweeting via Twitter continues to shoot up to stardom. Don’t believe me? Name 5 blogs that don’t host the tweetmeme button that you read everyday. (Don’t worry I’ll wait…)

These days it seems you’re more likely to get a retweet for your content before a linkback to it. Not surprisingly so due to the huge difference between the process needed to create a linkback versus a retweet. Let’s examine, shall we?

The Effort Of Retweeting Versus Linking Back

Retweets are so much easier to create from Twitter’s site or a client. Linkbacks usually require some type of blog posting to make it official. Not everyone blogs, but a lot of people like to tweet. Another reason retweeting might be more favorable is because of the size of one’s audience. On a blog, it’s much harder to build up a nice size audience, which adds more value to the content you choose to share. However, gaining a couple h

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