August 01, 2003

Link me - Link me!

Well, if you are not aware of it, Frank J has been making a lot of people jump through hoops to get a link on his blogroll. And Kevin is trying to make people do the same to get a link on his permaroll. I am on Kevin's regular blogroll, and I am pretty sure Kevin comes and reads me from time to time. I have him on my blogroll. Frank is on my blogroll, but he is being adament about not adding anyone except whoever wins his groveling contest. I could say that Frank is being a prick by not adding me, but I won't. I like both of these guys. They both have great blogs and I read both regularly.

Do you want a link on my blog? I am not a big dog like Kevin and Frank, but I am getting there. There are two ways you can attempt to get a link on my blog. The first is really pretty easy:

Say something about me or my blog that is remarkable in a comment or on a post on your blog linked back to one of my posts, whether it be good or bad, and you might get a place on the Hit Parade listing just under my logo.
The second is equally pretty simple:
To attempt to get a link on my blogroll, leave a comment to one of my posts or trackback to one of them. I always try to check out who visits or trackbacks to my posts when I am able to find the necessary linkage. I can sometimes do this through Site Meter also, but not always. If you trackback or comment, you leave a link I can follow. I will visit your blog. If you have blogrolled me, and sometimes even if you have not, but I like your blog, your style of writing, and you post with some regularity, you will likely get blogrolled. No guarantees, but there is a better than 50/50 chance that your blog will end up on my blogroll. If you think I have slighted you, or maybe I just visited on a down day, do not worry. Try it again. I have blogrolled some only after the second or third visit.
I hope these obstacles are not all that hard to hurdle. Blogroll me on merit as that is how you will get blogrolled here. However, I love to see those gems which praise my efforts or pan them. That is why I created the Hit Parade listing.

Posted by Tiger at August 1, 2003 12:44 PM
Comments

A ha! We are comment whores. Pick us!

Posted by: Monkeyspit at August 1, 2003 12:49 PM

Good points. I need to go update my post. My main blogroll is not the subject of this little contest, just the listing among the "Big Dog" blogs...

My policy on the blogroll is that I link to sites I visit. Everyone who blogrolls me gets a link at a minimum on the reciprocal link list, and most I add to the main blogroll as well.

Posted by: Kevin at August 1, 2003 12:54 PM

Hmmm, just what is a comment whore? Is that anything like a troll?

Posted by: Tiger at August 1, 2003 07:43 PM

Hey, I've seen that comment whore (Monkeyspit) before! It's true!

Posted by: the girl at August 6, 2003 10:52 AM

Tiger I had no idea you were out there....but now that I do, I will most CERTAINLY ADD YOU !! Please email your url to my email addy brazoscantina@yahoo.com. I am due for an update and cleaning of the broken links as it is, and I would be honored to list you!

Posted by: Sharon Ferguson at August 10, 2003 10:16 AM

But, what if we are already ON each other's blogroll? Do you STILL visit from the comments? Or, do you specifically get out of the comments and THEN go visit? This is important, you know . . .

Posted by: Tony Rosen at August 20, 2003 06:37 PM

Does that mean that groveling will get one nowhere?

Posted by: Sophorist at October 12, 2003 05:34 PM

I (heart) you.

Posted by: Random_Prose at November 12, 2003 04:26 AM

"Hmmm, just what is a comment whore? Is that anything like a troll?"

No, a troll is someone who floods message boards with meaningless stuff looking for a response, ANY RESPONSE, or at least any hostile response.

A comment whore is obviously something like a postwhore, which is someone on a message board that posts just to see big numbers in their "total number of posts", the only difference is, aparantly comment whores are fishing for links not big numbers.

Posted by: Dan at December 5, 2003 05:54 AM

Great post.

On this topic, a female blogger, (I forget who) wrote, "Send me an email. If your blog doesn't make me projectile vomit, I'll exchange links."

Posted by: The Commissar at January 8, 2004 07:19 PM