KirstenL4W

There’s a bit of a scandal going on in the blogosphere. It concerns Bobby from The Bestest Blog of All Time. When the site was started, it was supposed to be a simple link exchange - exchange links with him and you have a one-stop shop for finding all sorts of new links. Great idea, and I exchanged links with him, and got a decent amount of traffic for my little blog. But then Bobby started getting full of himself. He redesigned the site to make it harder to navigate, harder to read, and recently, hasn’t even been updating with new links, which was the main purpose of his blog in the first place. Sure, he still has little about nothing worthwhile scattered in between his PPP posts, but on his site, I really don’t care about the posts. I just wanted an easy source for new links. I haven’t yet decided on whether or not I’ll take down the link. I need to sit on that for a bit and see what develops.

Since Bobby has been seriously slacking, I’ve been finding new blogs to read elsewhere. I go thru all the links on the blogs that I link to, and chase links again from there. Chasing links is much more fun than expecting them to come to me, and I’m almost assured that I won’t come across any crap. (Hello, this is my furst blog post and i am an eggspert on how to make moneey bloging). No, chasing links is a much better way to find blogs that offer quality content, even if that content doesn’t interest me at all. If I like you and want to read you on a regular basis, I will link to you, simple as that. I like it when people link to me, but I’m not going to be a link hound. If you like me, link to me. That’s the way it should be.

One more thing that bugs me. I understand that certain people want to keep certain blogs private. That’s not an issue. But what bugs me is when people make their profiles private. Now, when I see you left an interesting comment on my blog or someone else’s blog and I want to check you out a bit more, I can’t even see what blogs you have because I can’t read your profile. It’s not that I want to stalk you or anything. I just want to find and read interesting blogs. And privacy concerns? Well, this is the internets, but you’re not required to put your name, dob, SSN and other major identifying details on your profile. You just have to have a name, and it doesn’t have to be real. So why can’t I read your profile to find out more about witty commenters?

Here’s my advice: If you’re going to start a blog, have some real content on there that people actually want to read. Make your profile public, even if your blog isn’t. You can always put a note in there on why the blog is private. And if you do start something and can’t continue, either pass the buck or have a compelling reason on why you’re discontinuing.

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