Many other sites have written about this, so I might as well, too.
I’ve noticed that blogrolls often operate much like big business: The ones that are already entrenched are nearly ubiquitous, while the smaller ones — the ones in much greater need of linkage (some say blogrolls don’t count for much, but every bit is important, especially when you’re dealing with Google algorithms) — have a hell of a time competing for readership.
Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of great Heavy Hitters (e.g. FireDogLake) who link to a lot of us smaller sites, and it’s really awesome that they do that. But unfortunately, there are a lot of other upper-echelon bloggers who tend mostly to just link to each other, which is sad because there are a lot of other smaller sites with great, interesting content that need another link much more than, say, Daily Kos (which, well, Markos reportedly doesn’t like to link to many smaller blogs, and claims that blogrolls don’t do much anyway).
So for anyone interested in my blogrolling policy: If you link to me, I’ll link to you. Of course, there are the obvious exceptions: I’m not about to link to KKK advocates, Kinderfickers, homophobes, you know, the usual lot of general rejects. But otherwise, that’s all there is to it — link to me, and I’ll link back. But you have to let me know, because I don’t always catch all the incoming links.
Anyway, just so you all know, in case you were curious, there it is.
Chick Dissection tomorrow, followed by hopefully more frequent content again. I’ve been rather busy and distracted the last few weeks, so haven’t been able to put much up during the week between Dissections.
Yay! I basically have the same policy, though I think usually I’m the guy who links somewhere and gets linked back. Either way, though!
I’ve been meaning to ask — the “Everyone Else Is Doing It” list of bookmarking sites and whatnot — is that from a simple app or something that I can put in to automagically do that at th’ bottom of all my posts at Kittysneezes? Because that might end up being useful or something. Probably not, but you never know.
Basically if I could get on MeFi, I’d be happy, but I’m not really holding my breath for that.
Hehe, I have a Metafilter account, but I’ve never had the… for lack of a better term, audacity… to link to the Chick Dissections. Mostly, I just end up arguing in comments about how people don’t just get “free adoration and respect” tickets just by virtue of being dead.
The “Everyone Else Is Doing It” stuff is a WordPress plugin called Sociable. I think it just links to various shared bookmarking/linking sites, making it convenient for people to share posts they find interesting. Or something.
Heh, yeah… I do too, but I don’t wanna get banninated. A’cause I would and but quick! My best bet is, I guess, to keep doing High Quality Content and hope that the link gets spread around naturally.
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Sorry.
Hm — I should check if there’s a similar plug in for Joomla! Or something else like that! Hm!
Matt, did you know people can’t log in to your site from the comments pages? Annoying. I don’t know how to fix, it, though, so there’s no real point in me mentioning it, except here, because maybe Josh knows?
I really like your Jack Chick dissections (I’ve been doing something similar, but with Al Hartley comics” and the popular Christian “sexual purity” book “Every Man’s Battle”. I’m interested in a link exchange. My blog is here:
http://cynicsage.blogspot.com/
Thank you.
The Cynic Sage
Hey, Jabber! I’ll take a little of that linkage.
http://fundiewatch.blogspot.com
I’ll add you both within the next day or two. Thanks!
UPDATE: You should be linked now.