A bibliography is a little-know rarely used tool that can be used by virtually any web site or blog site to greatly enhance the image of the site as well as the value of the information therein.

An annotated bibliography is a list of works by other authors that is extremely useful because it not only gives credit to sources used in a particular post, article or content, but it also provides valuable information for the reader to use for further research on the same subject.

The effect of acknowledging your source of information by publishing a bibliography can have an enormous impact on the traffic and success of your site well beyond your wildest dreams. Firstly you can ensure that there is a link created that leads to the sites mention in your bibliography. This in itself will create enormous goodwill for you and make many leading site owners aware of your existence and that of your site in the first place.

Then there is the fact that search engines and their algorithms usually take into account the number of sites that a particular site has linked out to and their importance and relevance. So one immediate benefit of linking out, long before people start linking back is that your ranking will improve which should also increase traffic.

Not to mention all the huge traffic that one is bound to receive through all the high traffic sites that will end up linking back to you because you remembered to acknowledge them and their valuable contribution of information.

Many web masters may forget that the problem of plagiarism of content is two-way. The precious content on your site that you may have spent a lot of time and money developing can be copied and used somewhere on the huge colossal ocean we call the net. When you help promote the use of bibliographies, you are helping curb a problem that could already be affecting you right now.