Linking is when you make text that a web user can click, such as this link to Google. One common way to add a link is through HTML. This page will explain what code to write to create a link. Some sites use a different way of linking though – this site for example, to make a link one needs to put the linked words in quotes, followed by a colon then the URL. There are other ways as well, read the site’s rules and you’ll probably be able to figure it out.
You’ll get tons of visitors if you participate in digital communities related to your blog. Usually when one leaves a comment on another blog, you have the option of including a web link, so put your blog’s site here and leave a thoughtful comment. People who read your comment and are impressed by you (or simply curious) will click on the link and get to your blog.
Part of Google’s PageRank algorithm is based on how many other external websites link to your blog – the more links you have from different sites, the more credible you appear to be, thus the PageRank goes up. To best utilize this, find related blogs and do a “link-share” – you put the other blog’s link on your blog, and that author puts your link on their blog. Usually the best place to put these links is in a “blogroll” which is just a fancy term for a list of links embedded into the page (not a blog post itself). Now this one link won’t have a lot of effect, in fact many links may not have any effect – no one but Google’s engineers truly know how their PageRank algorithm works, and they won’t be telling the world anytime soon.