Linking to SaveYourself.ca

This page makes it easy to link to SaveYourself.ca, using convenient samples of links for copying and pasting

Here are a few chunks of suggested linking text that you can just copy and paste into your blog or website, like so:

Of course, please feel free to edit the text to suit your own website and writing style! Do anything at all with them! But these templates will give you a running start.

Simple keyworded link to the SaveYourself.ca home page. Virtually effortless, always appreciated! Short and sweet!

Mini-review! Here’s a paragraph giving a nice glowing description of SaveYourself.ca, and mentioning each of SaveYourself.ca’s advanced tutorials. About 200 words.

SaveYourself.ca publishes articles and advanced tutorials about common aches, pains and injuries. The writing is style clear and fun, and there’s a strong emphasis on science. In addition to almost 200 free articles on every imaginable topic related to pain problems, the site offers several really detailed tutorials for $20 each, and there are several free sections at the start of each of them. There’s an especially detailed one about <a href="http://SaveYourself.ca/tutorials/low-back-pain.php">low back pain</a>, which is really heavily referenced and has a lot of fantastic information about how back pain isn’t really “structural.” Another large tutorial about <a href="http://SaveYourself.ca/tutorials/trigger-points.php">myofascial pain syndrome and trigger points</a> can either be purchased separately, or it comes as a free bonus with some of the other tutorials (so you can get 2 for 1). There are two big knee-pain tutorials, one about <a href="http://SaveYourself.ca/tutorials/iliotibial-band-syndrome.php">iliotibial band syndrome</a>, the other about <a href="http://SaveYourself.ca/tutorials/patellofemoral-pain-syndrome.php">patellofemoral pain syndrome</a> — and they probably offer more information about those conditions that you can find anywhere else. There’s also a <a href="http://SaveYourself.ca/tutorials/plantar-fasciitis.php">plantar fasciitis tutorial</a>, one about <a href="http://SaveYourself.ca/tutorials/muscle-strain.php">muscle strains,</a> and another about <a href="http://SaveYourself.ca/tutorials/neck-pain.php">neck “cricks.”</a> All of them seem to be simple and clear enough for patients, yet they are so detailed and heavily researched that most health care professionals could learn a lot from them as well. SaveYourself.ca is published by Paul Ingraham, a <a href="http://VancouverMassage.ca">Registered Massage Therapist in Vancouver, Canada.</a>

Bulleted list of tutorial links. Want to just links to the tutorials in list format? Great! Here’s all the markup for that. 50 words for the whole list.

Bulleted list of articles of interest to health care professionals. If you’d like to recommend SaveYourself.ca to professionals, this will make it easier! Here’s a paragraph recommending a few key articles, and then a list of several more links to content that doctors and therapists will find the most interesting. About 350 words in all.

<p>SaveYourself.ca publishes many free articles of interest to any curious doctor or therapist. Many of them are quite controversial (and interesting), but all of them are thoroughly referenced. For instance, according to Mr. Ingraham, research increasingly shows that <a href="http://SaveYourself.ca/articles/stretching.php">a stretching habit isn't good for warmup, injury prevention, preventing muscle soreness, or even for flexibility</a>, and he also has a large and advanced article about the science of <a href="http://SaveYourself.ca/articles/stretching-for-tps.php">how stretching may (or may not) affect myofascial trigger points</a>. In <a href="http://SaveYourself.ca/articles/icing-exceptions.php">"(Almost) Never Ice Low Back Pain!"</a>, he explains a common and important exception to conventional wisdom about icing and heating injuries; he also explains that there is no evidence or reason to believe that <a href="http://SaveYourself.ca/articles/reality-checks/epsom-salts.php">bathing in Epsom salts aids recovery from muscle soreness or injuries</a>. Here are several others that stand out:</p>

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<li><a href="http://SaveYourself.ca/articles/structuralism.php">Your Back Is Not "Out" and Your Leg Length is Fine</a> — The story of the obsession with crookedness in the physical therapies</li>

<li><a href="http://SaveYourself.ca/articles/biological-literacy/natural-imperfection.php">Natural Imperfection</a> — Evolution doesn't care if you have back pain … just as long as you can breed</li>

<li><a href="http://SaveYourself.ca/articles/shorts/2007-10-26-seven-ways-to-hurt.php">9 Surprising Ways to Hurt</a> — Understanding pain when there is no obvious explanation</li>

<li><a href="http://SaveYourself.ca/articles/shorts/2007-10-08-no-mri-please.php">No MRI, Please!</a> — New medical guidelines "strongly" discourage the use of MRI and X-ray in diagnosing low back pain in the early stages</li>

<li><a href="http://SaveYourself.ca/articles/alternative-to-what.php">Alternative to What?</a> — Alternative health care professionals need to decide what they are really the alternative to</li>

<li><a href="http://SaveYourself.ca/articles/my-barber.php">What Happened To My Barber?</a> — Upper cervical instability causes severe dizziness and vomiting after massage therapy, with lessons for health care consumers</li>

<li><a href="http://SaveYourself.ca/articles/does-chiropractic-work.php">Does Chiropractic Work?</a> — Notes from a science-minded massage therapist who gets asked about it every day</li>

<li><a href="http://SaveYourself.ca/articles/chair-warriorism.php">Back Pain and Other Hazards of Sitting In Chairs (Way) Too Much</a> — Recent personal experience proves that a lot of sitting actually is as risky as I've been telling my clients all these years</li>

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<p>SaveYourself.ca also has an actual <a href="http://SaveYourself.ca/readers-guide-pro.php">readers’ guide</a> for the site just for professional visitors, with a lot more links.</p>

Biographical information. Here’s a short blurb about me, which you can mix and match with any of the above information. About 75 words.

Anatomy of a good link

There’s not much point in linking if you don’t link well. Whatever else you do, if you link to SaveYourself.ca, please include keywords in your links. Google virtually ignores links that do not contain keywords related to the target page, thus defeating the purpose of linking. If you’re publishing your own blog or website, you need to know this so that you can ask other people to link to you this way. Here’s a demonstration:

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Linking Examples
SaveYourself.ca is a great website about evidence-based musculoskeletal health care	SaveYourself.ca is a great website about evidence-based musculoskeletal health care.
click here for a great low back pain tutorial	SaveYourself.ca publishes a fantastic low back pain tutorial