Here’s a really funny story, that turns out not to be so funny after all!  How much time do you spend on educating yourself on your blog niche?  Well if you’re a seasoned blogger that probably is a regular part of your blogging routine.  Now as for me I will openly admit that I have been really into my blogging profession for a good few months now.

Being that I am fully retired from the daily grind of the work a day life of many, I decided to take up blogging first as a hobby and then as a possible side business.  I jumped in with both feet and started with buying blogging courses from well-known business and pro bloggers to start with.  While that gave me a good start,  I find that to get to be a good blogger, while it has been fun for me, takes real work to get it going.

So what’s the funny story that turned out not to be so funny, well here it is!  I write two blogs my news blog for fun, and a marketing blog as a side business of sorts.  When ever I find good content on other blogs that may help other aspiring bloggers, I like to pass that along by linking to that blog.  The linking does two things, one, it gives the reader something that they can use in their blogging efforts, two, it links back to the article blog site and give credit where credit is due.

Here’s where you have to be careful!  If your going to link back to a blog for a good article, make sure that the article referenced only writes articles on what you really want your readers to read.  Both my blogs are what I consider good clean niche blogs.

What I have found is that sometimes a guest blogger who may write a good content article for a niche blog, may not write only one type of content on their own blog.  So here’s what happened to me.  I linked to some great content on one of the pro blogs that I visit often, and linked to a great article on content blogging. I also wanted to give credit to the guest blogger I also linked to that guest bloggers blog.

About a week later I was checking links to see if all the original content was still there.  What I found was that at the pro blogger blog site the link still referenced the original article, but when I checked the link to the guest blogger’s blog site the next new article on that blog was a story about sex troubles of couples somewhere in Asia!  Needles to say I was shocked and removed the guest blogger link for the original post.

Now I take the full blame for that mistake, I didn’t do my homework and get to know the blog I was linking to.  here’s my advice; take time and get to know the blogs you are linking to, it could keep content off of your blog that you don’t want there.