Referencing in blogs: important?
Referencing texts is some pain for all reseach students, but is it really important to ref texts/links in our blogs as well?
we do ref pictures by adding a 'pic courtesy ' under the pic but what about posts? I feel it is imp but also feel it wouldn't make an interesting read. how do you guys around this?
Referencing to internet sources will give a big boost to your Google PR rank, if nothing else.
The way PR is acalculated, if you link to a blog or website with high PR rank, you blog/website's PR rank will also shoot up.
Yes, it is Varun. For example, if I take inspiration from any one of your posts or the one which is unique to yourself and write something about it, I have to give you the credits. This may not be the case in a very general topic.
I dont think crediting some one makes a blog post uninteresting to read. If you do simply copy paste, then its a different story. Then you need to as Adarsh said. But when you counter view it or support it, its always good to give reference to the originator.
I would summarise the text and provide a link to the entire text at the end.
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