Jon12345 - 9:44 am on Aug 26, 2012 (gmt 0)

If your site has i.e. 2,000 useful content pages, you can gain tremendously by posting on your own blog short posts with useful related news and information (not automatic feeds), and including links to your existing content pages.

I am interested in this comment. Why would you benefit from doing this?

Is it that links - even though from your own site - still get credited as a "vote" in Googles eyes?