10. "It's unnecessary and obnoxious." In response to In response to 8
Like someone already said, if you are offering some kind of original content on your blog, that's one thing.
But these jokers are doing bullshit like posting a screaming headline about some "news" from another source, or some new video and then linking their blog when they could have just linked the YouTube video they have embedded there, or the source URL for the "news" piece that they copied from somewhere else and pasted on their shitty blog.