If your site is listed in one of my blogrolls, that makes you my neighbor!
Now, I’m not going to come over and ask to borrow a cup of sugar, or anything creepy like that. But chances are high that I will not only read your blog, and maybe even write something linking to you.
Every week I’ll post a link to 4 (very random, mind you) blogs from each of my blogrolls, and a bit about what they’re up to (according to recent posts). So I’ve chosen a few random blogs to find out what they’re posting about…
Enjoy! They are here…
Increase your chances of getting listed:
Have trackbacks enabled
This helps me help you get traffic, as well as helps you to see who’s linking back to you.
Problem:
You don’t have trackbacks by default on Blogger.com sites.
Solution:
Well, there are a few. You don’t HAVE to enable trackbacks in some cases. You do if you want different options.
But rather than explain it myself (rather clumsily), I’ll let Harvey, from Bad Example do it. Here’s his post about how to setup trackbacking for Blogger.com/Blogspot.com websites.
Basil always has some blogging ‘how-to’ stuff, too.
Some problems which will cause me to NOT link to (or even look at) your site:
Problem:
Your site takes for-freaking-ever for me to load in my browser. This is because you have too many graphics in your site or you have 2 gajillion posts on your home page.
Solution:
Try to cut down on the number of posts on your home page. To do this in WordPress, just go to ‘Manage’ > ‘Reading’ and keep your number of posts to display down to about 20. If they are fairly short (2-8 paragraphs) with not a lot of photos (1 or 2 each). If your posts tend to be more long-winded and/or contain a lot of graphics, cut this down to about 5-10.
For Blogger/Blog*Spot blogs, you can do this by going to this page to learn how.
Problem:
If you have any popups, chances are HIGH that you will never be featured here. Your site is annoying to me and likely to others as well.
Solution:
Get rid of the popups. No one likes them, and they can’t be THAT important. If they are the kind of popups that you sign up for to get more traffic, cancel your membership already.
Even if you are getting 1,000’s of hits, they can’t be all that great. No one gives you targeted traffic via popups.