I love it when I get my posting ideas from my readers. Had an email sometime back from Lisa Solomon at Question of Law and The Billable Hour. We were exchanging thoughts on Permalinks and linking between blogs. Lisa pointed out to me that some blogs don’t provide a Permalink. I was actually shocked. I never really noticed this and began to ponder the issue. As Lisa and I further discussed this, I remembered that some blogging platforms provide the permalink within the title of the post. Problogger and others do that. My blogs all have a permalink “link” at the end of every post. What I came up with is why. Why would you not provide a permalink in your blog. As I have mentioned a number of times in my tips, linking to other blogs is one of the best ways to drive traffic to your own blog. The more links you have to your blog, the more the search engines love you. Linking is one of the items that make blogs move up so fast in the search engines. It makes it very hard to link to a particular post on a blog if there is no permalink. In fact, Problogger has a great post on linking at the link I just provided. He states in part:

Blogs and links are the perfect couple. Of course, everyone knows that. You don’t have to be a hopeless romantic or some SEO techie type to figure that one out.

In addition:

Blog links have search engine power for several reasons. One of which is the different types of linking featured on blogs. All blog links are not the same, and that is part of their secret search engine rankings power. Different types of links provide different rankings boosts, in several different ways. In the end, the links add up to your blog being placed highly, for your most important keywords, in Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search.

Take my advice. Provide a permalink to your post. If you do, you will see your search engine ranking increase.