Originally Posted by
craigthemif
During my weak efforts at running a blog, I have picked up that Google SEO is big on back links, etc.
So I'm pretty sure "hat tipping" is in the bloggers own interest, provided they link to the place they stole from.
No that's not how it works. Hat Tipping is giving link juice back. It is adding links to bigger sites that work in the bloggers best interest, such as trawling the bigger sites leaving messages with linked comments.
But that doesn't mean that taking posts from others to provide fresh content doesn't help a blogger out.