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Blogrolls, what to put on them and why? |
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Reading this post by Josh reminded me of something that used to be a huge issue for us anime bloggers: the purpose of the blogroll.
What’s the purpose of a blogroll? It used to be, in the glorious days of the start of ANO, there were two kinds of blogrolls: one kind had links to blogs the site’s author enjoyed, and the other kind had links to blogs that the site’s author had made link exchange deals with.
Then the community started growing and it became the fashion to add new bloggers to your blogroll, to get them some attention, etc. Reactionary bloggers cleared up their blogrolls, deciding that blogrolls were losing their meaning with the huge influx of links that no one really cared about.
Somewhere along the line, I made a post about my blogroll, essentially an attempt to justify why I had links to the sites I did. A couple other bloggers may or may not have followed suit. I don’t really know.
Anyway, when I came back to anime blogging a few days ago, I found myself facing a challenge: my blogroll.
Several links were broken, the result of blogs moving or dying and disappearing. Several links in my blogroll I had previously set to not show because they had been blogs I didn’t really read. I fixed the broken links where blogs had moved (ex: ikimashou.net, Cruel Angel Theses, etc.) and removed links where the referenced site existed no longer, but there remained the problem of the blogs I don’t read. That demographic nearly tripled in size during my hiatus as I stopped paying attention to individual sites and just took glancing glances at Anime Nano’s overall RSS feed five times daily. So yeah, coming back to blogging, I found my blogroll was full of duds.
I cleaned it up a bit, but kept on a bunch of links to sites I’m not really interested in. Some of them are sites run by people who I was once familiar with (before the whole disappearing thing).
Given that times and hearts change, I’m not really sure why those links are there. And so here’s my question, and not just because I want advice (I think I know what I’m going to do with my blogroll): what kind of blogroll do you keep? What links go and what kind stay?
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I have two. One for blogs I emulate, and one for sleeping around.
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Ah! The comment form background!!
OK, on to the post. My blogroll is basically a list of sites which I visit the most. If I find myself going to a site multiple times over some period of time (the count and period of time is, of course, classified information, ie completely arbitrary) I typically feel it’s about time to add them to my blogroll. I just hadn’t added many sites to my blogroll for a while because I largely hadn’t gotten around to visiting many new sites recently. A couple of my links are link exchanges, but I still usually hit those up too.
Sure, I look at AnimeNano, but I usually only look at the front page whenever I go, so I’m sure to miss some posts, so I still hit the links in my blogroll as well (unless I’ve already hit them via AN).
Yeah, I’m oldschool. I still visit the actual blogs themselves lol.
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I never really pay attention to blogrolls, so at least for *me,* they’re pretty much useless. To find (new) blogs, I usually go to AnimeNano, the Animeblogger Antenna, or click on links that reference something from another blog. But heck, I don’t think they’re totally and utterly useless. I mean, I’m pretty sure they help the continual proliferation of something or other.
To answer your question, I actually can’t answer it because I won’t bother putting a blogroll on mein blog unless someone REALLY wants me to for some reason.
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So I don’t forget the URL.
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Well after reading your Blog Awards post and saying that all blogs for the humor category were trash except for JP’s. Not saying I deserve an award but that’s not nice :| Considering the fact that JP would be updating like once a month if I didn’t pester him to write posts about stuff these days
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Ack. I forgot about you because your blog is on his domain and I think of all entries on either blog as being one site! Shit :(
I’m sorry T_T
Replylolikitsune — 3/31/08 @ 6:08 pm | #Link
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I’d old fashioned. So I just clump everyone’s blog whom has linked back to me or just blogs that I’d would recommend to others. Regardless, I think I have too much time cause I frequently browse through all the blog that is only my blogroll.
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Daijoubu is not on your blogroll, therefor I can only assume your blogroll is rubbish and you have no authority to speak on this matter whatsoever. :P
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Look,
bitchnoob, it’s not my fault that you started blogging after I stopped.Replylolikitsune — 3/31/08 @ 7:03 pm | #Link
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I just use an OPML export file from my anime blog folder in my feedreader, and the Import option.
Mostly remove blogs when they start sucking (but that is rare, unless I realise one day that nothing of value was lost) or stop updating. In many cases, it’s the latter that leads to removal. Hence why I don’t entertain random people e-mailing me, because it’s tantamount to “hay can u read me plz”. Mercy adds to blogroll are lol. Go figure.
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I started before Owen did, Mr. Troll. :P
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I started a blogroll simply as a means of marking a very few favorites. I had a few links for the same reason. Then some people asked to be included and being a nice guy (if they’d linked to me already), I’d add them. But this reminds me that I need to extract the non-anime/manga related blogs that I had listed from the blogroll and make a seperate section for them.
ReplyAstroNerdBoy — 3/31/08 @ 11:12 pm | #Link
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DS‚Äîyeah, I know. But when you started, Suzumiya Haruhi was in your header and in your heart and you were pretty damn fail. That phase doesn’t count. MegaDaijoubu and the dango shenanigans began after I stopped blogging.
Replylolikitsune — 3/31/08 @ 11:50 pm | #Link
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I’m with Alafista. Though I try to take off blogs that are inactive for a while (I give large leeway with that though; some have been off for months), and I try to put on blogs that are interesting in some way to me. I have a lot of interests, it seems. :3
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Good question! I guess I’m often returning the favour of someone else adding me to theirs, plus listing my own faves, whether they link to me or not. I check it every now and then to weed out the broken links or those that have succumbed to Hiatus Disease, mind.
My blogroll isn’t nearly as long as my Google reader list though. That’s reached an insane length of over 70 blogs and news feeds now (the scary thing being, I actually give every one of them at least a cursory glance each day).
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Imo, the blogroll is much more for your readers’ benefit rather than yours. I mean srsly, when was the last time you went to your BLOGROLL to visit an acquaintance’s blog? I have them saved in my bookmarks already, I load them as I see fit.
When your readers see your blogroll, they can see who you’re familiar with (LOL POPULARITY CONTEST), and if they like your blog, chances are they’ll check out people on your blogroll to see why that person interested YOU.Pretty much the whole, ‘This place interests me, here’s a reference link.’ deal. ^^
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Yo, I should have checked this post out earlier. I share Owen’s status on the blogroll. I just keep the stuff I read regularly in there, and it mimics my reader via OPML.
Blogs I come arcoss, get bookmarked first, but if I find myself there often then it makes sense to make it permanent.
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I think it’s people I read. I removed you from my blogroll about two months ago (I think) because you didn’t blog. I’m going to add you back.
Anyway, I just put on my blogroll people I do read, and they’re not much. You’re one there, though, lolikit. <3
Hahaha.
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