Question for bloggers
March 27th, 2006Why do you keep your blogroll?
This is a real question and one that I wonder about whenever I look at the blogrolls of other people. Are they all blogs that you read regularly? Are they link exchanges? Are they sites you feel deserve your endorsement?
For me, I keep my blogroll of blogs I actually read, or mean to read. At least once a week I go through and visit all those sites, some more often then others. When I stop reading a blog, I take them off my blogroll, but that list doesn’t represent the whole of the blogs I read.
For me, a blog has to have me coming back for more. If it doesn’t, why blogroll it? So I only add ‘em when I find myself going back after a specific post has lost interest or when multiple posts catch my attention.
You?
I had the exact same opinion on the notion, so I don’t even bother to use blogroll, I just put in hard links, if a blog isn’t worth my time to hardcode it, I’m not serious enough supporter of it to list it.
Now I keep a much longer RSS feed list, including blogs I’ve found something interesting on the past, but blogs get dropped from it as well when I feel it’s been too long since the last time they had something interesting on them.
Comment by Jamison � March 27, 2006 @ 12:52 pm
Same with me…everyone on my blogroll are the one’s I read fairly regularly.
Comment by mindless dribbler � March 27, 2006 @ 14:55 pm
I agree with the above comments. Those that are worth reading again get hardcode links… just surfing through via Blogmad, but I’ll be back.
Comment by Al B Sure � March 27, 2006 @ 18:00 pm
Why bother bookmarking sites? Just go to your own blog and click the link.
Ahhhh… the life of laziness.
Comment by Parizad � March 28, 2006 @ 9:25 am
“I had the exact same opinion on the notion, so I don’t even bother to use blogroll, I just put in hard links, if a blog isn’t worth my time to hardcode it, I’m not serious enough supporter of it to list it. ”
I understand the reasoning here, but I have to point out that maintaining a list of links via Blogrolling connects and organizes the blogosphere in a way hard links do not. If I want to know how many people have “rolled” me, a search on Blogrolling gives tells me who is reading me and I can know my audience. Knowing who digs me can validate a previous notion or gain a new view of who I am.
Comment by coolbeans � March 28, 2006 @ 11:22 am
I don’t use blog roller and never have. I just link to the sites that I like, because I like to link to sites I like. I usually visit them all the time- they are in my bookmarks. I don’t click my links because I have them open in a new window.
Comment by Dawn � March 28, 2006 @ 14:56 pm
My blogroll is a list of people I actually read on a daily basis - and a few people I have a personal obligation to. I also have a large folder of blogs that I’m keeping up on, that I try to read at least every other day. That may become links in the future.
And, BTW, I love your new layout! It’s so easy to read!!
Comment by Marcia � March 29, 2006 @ 8:40 am
I used to use blogrolling, now I use the links list in my WP and list them as my blogroll.
Most of the sites on my list are sites that I like, and quite a few are those that I visit at least a few times a week, while others I visit once in a while because they don’t interest me as much but I still like them. Some I’ve outgrown, but they have links to me on their sites, so I don’t want to insult them by removing their links.
All in all, I usually only remove sites that no longer work. Only a few have made me bored, and I finally removed them.
Comment by jafer � April 2, 2006 @ 19:21 pm