WHAT?? No BlogRoll?

Oct 29, 2005 10 Comments

Since most of us write blogs because we think we have something interesting to say, our goal is usually the same; get more people to read your site. The best way to get new readers is by having your buddies who also blog kick down with a link back to your blog from theirs. Usually this is done in the form of a blogroll (see the nifty list, top-right). Any mass blogging site (blogspot.com, WordPress.com, etc) or any blogging software that is worth a it’s weight in cow dung offers the ability to add links to your buddies in the form of a blogroll. But, as I have also found, there are sites and scripts out there that make blogrolling either very difficult or impossible to do.

If you are currently writing a blog and your software or the site you blog at doesn’t allow you to blog (You know who you are), you owe it to all of your blogging compadres to jump ship and move to a better solution. It’s all about the links, man. It’s all about the links.

And one last thing. myspace.com can eat my ass! Craig, you MUST move to a real blogging site now! Visitors can’t even add a comment to your posts unless they sign up for an account at that crappy site. I’m as likely to join myspace.com as I am to be MVP of the NHL in 2005-2006. You’ve seen the type of shape I’m in, that aint F’n happening!

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10 Responses to “WHAT?? No BlogRoll?”

  1. Craig Oct 29, 2005 at 10:31 am

    Well I think your right about two things. What those are we may never know. But about the blogging MySpace is interesting because…. well there not that intersting it actually sucks so look for a new link to be emailed. As for the NHL well lets just say that I hope you are better at hockey than you are at racquetball.

  2. jessi Oct 29, 2005 at 4:34 pm

    ya totally agree, Myspace sucks. I’m thinking of getting rid of my account. However, I just found an old Drum Corps friend, so I might hold on to it a little bit more. It’s for friends who can’t seem to go to my real blog and read about stuff. Lazy Bastards.

  3. Todd Oct 31, 2005 at 1:41 pm

    I love the whole myspace vs real blog debate. Some people are definitly on either side of this fence. Personally I have a real blog and use myspace intermittently for those people who insist on using it.

  4. Sam Nov 01, 2005 at 10:38 am

    If you want to add links for something like a blogroll on blogspot.com you have to go edit the html of the template. Which I think can be very intimidating for a lot of people. So I think myspace is a nice halfway house to get people started

  5. Craig Nov 01, 2005 at 6:06 pm

    You aint kiddin about the editing the html but I think they explain it well on the help page. Well im not done yet so we will see….

  6. Craig Nov 01, 2005 at 10:59 pm

    ok give this a try and hey John you should change your blogroll now….http://tanniyn.blogspot.com/

  7. KATastrophe Feb 25, 2006 at 10:42 am

    I agree…MYSPACE sucks!

    I AM however adding you to my blogroll.

    later,
    kat

  8. abhishek Feb 21, 2007 at 12:30 pm

    Try out blogLinx. It’s a better alternative to blogrolling.com, that does away with pinging and all that. It updates in the background and is self-explanatory.