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Karma, best summed up as what goes around comes around, does Karma hold true for the Internet as well?

Internet Karma in the form of  “Blogger Love
Bloggers often post their own Internet Karma posts often referred to as “Blogger Love”.   They’ll post about other bloggers, such as interesting post they’ve read. Megavegalicious recently wrote Nick (me) is “a free spirit, a traveler at heart that writes a nice blog.” Though it’s not necessary often writing about another blogger and link to their site, will often lead to an equally good dead in return… the other blogger seeing your link might link back to your blog, link to you, or leave a nice comment.  Internet Karma at it’s finest.

Internet Karma Commenting
I’ll often leave comments with a link back to my website as I read other bloggers posts… often, those same bloggers will come back to my site, read a few articles and leave comments as well… what goes around comes around…

Bad Internet Karma
With this same logic, there’s also such a thing as bad internet Karma.  You do something bad to someone else in the blogsphere and something worse might happen back to you.   Start stealing articles from people, images, or wordpress templates without asking and well Karma might just come back to get you.  You might get a slew of people writing bad comments on your blog, people writing posts about how much you suck (though this might not be a bad thing traffic wise).

Just remember, what goes around comes around… Treat other bloggers with respect and they’ll do the same… but start acting dirty… and Karma might just come to bite you in the …