My attitude about blogrolls is changing.?
I try to refer to lots of other folks in my posts and provide lots of follow-friendly traffic to people web-wide.? I will continue to do it.? But soul searching is going on.? I’ve cleared out my blogroll.? ? So if your link was removed, you might look around and see if there was any returned links from posts or your blogroll in the past six months.? Then again, many of those I removed won’t care.?
I recently had the change to make a suggestion to a multi-billion dollar media company for an advisor on social media/search trends in a conference with their CEO and a few other key executives in the room.? The person I almost mentioned had recently IM’d? me that I had been “giving them lame pitches” for a blogroll? link.? ? I had said to them that they gave my blog “no love” when I had repeatedly scooped them on news insights.? Not one mention was given to the write-ups I did, even as they nearly copied my work.? I withheld the recommendation because that kind of elitism gets under my skin… ah… they would have blown me off anyhow.? …I’m just a yokel from Kentucky – gotta remember that!
Anyhow…New attention going to:
Seth Godin will be heading to the top, as he continually impresses me.? ? He’s been on my blog since day one.
Guy Kawasaki lots of smart stuff.
Search Engine Land will be there because I respect some of the writers.
Shoemoney is there because he’s authentic.
Marketing Pilgrim? has become consistantly good.
Darren Rowse has done a nice job over at Problogger? so he’s going on the roll.? I’ve become a regular.
I’ve been really enjoying the posts from Stuntdubl, especially? when he does lists. :-)
Note:? I use RSS Bandit and Gooogle Reader for reading blogs.? I have around 400ish in the OPML now, sorted pretty well around best, average, and “on probation.”
Those who are in the blogroll that had a reciprocal link – you are still in there.? THANK YOU for that.
