FHK Blogroll (Updated Frequently)

UPDATED 08/25/09: In order to continue to promote the blogs we like, we have moved our blogroll to a blog post. Now, in the sidebar you’ll see a link to the Blog Roll, which contains links to some great conservative blogs. This date of this blog post will be updated at least every six months, so that we can promote other conservative bloggers by driving traffic to their sites, AND by giving them links which will count toward their Technorati count (also see here)…without the need for our previous two-foot long list of mostly unreciprocated links in our sidebar. Questions, comments and suggestions are all welcome. If you want to be added to this list or if your link on this list needs to be updated, please e-mail Jenn, here.

For more information, see: Why Blogrolling is Useless.

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• 1389 Blog
• America Needs Me
• All American Blogger
• America, You Asked For It!
• ARRA
• AWOL Civilization
• Batesline
• Benjamin Hodge FB
• Beyond the Cusp
• Big Dog’s Weblog
• Blog Catalog
• Blog of Walker
• Blue Collar Muse
• Boston Maggie
• Caffeinated Thoughts
• Cao2’s Weblog
• Capitalist Observer
• Chaotic Synaptic Activity
• Christians Against Leftist Heresy
• Colonel Robert Neville
• Common Cents
• Cornswalled
• Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State
• Crystal Clear Conservative
• Defending Crusader
• Diminished Expectations
• D=S
• Do the Right Thing CyberCrew
• Dustbury
• E!! The True Conservative Story™
• Eric Odom
• Faultline USA
• Fausta’s Blog
• Ft. Hard Knox
• Fousesquawk
• Free Canuckistan
• Freedom Folks
• Free Thoughts
• Fried Green Onions
• Gadfly
• Get Religion
• GOP Grunt
• Gov. Palin for President
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Green Country Values
• Gribbit’s Word
• Hack Wilson
• Haemet
• Independent Voters Association
• Ironic Surrealism
• JammieWearingFool
• Johnson County, KS Elections
• Jubilee Int’l Ministries
• Jumping in Pools
• Kansas Progress
• Leslie Carbone
• Let’s Get It Right
• LiberalHypocrisy
• MajorityConnections
• Maggie’s Notebook
• Marginalized Action Dinosaur
• Michael Johns
• Miss Beth’s Victory Dance
• Monkey in the Middle
• Mostly Politics
• Muslihoon
• My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
• NeoCon News
• New Republican Party Blog
• Nice Deb
• No Compromise When it Comes to Being Right!
• NoisyRoom.net
• No Sheeples Here!
• Nuke’s News & Views
• Okie Campaigns
• Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
• Papa Mike’s Blog
• Policy in Action
• Political Fizz
• PostPolitical
• Principle over Party
• Psycmeistr’s Ice Palace!
• Publius Forum
• Radarsite
• Resistance is futile!
• RFC Radio: Radio for Conservatives
• Right Truth
• Right Voices
• Right Wing Wiz Kid
• Road Sassy
• Ron’s Musings
• Rosemary’s Thoughts
• Sally Kern
• Screw Loose Change
• Site-51
• State Political Blogs
• Stix Blog
• Stop the ACLU
• TechRepublican
• The Absurd Report
• The Almanack
• The Armchair Energist
• The Conservative Hawk
• The DaleyGator
• The Endive
• The Irate Nation
• The Lonely Conservative
• The LOUD Talker
• The Lunch Counter
• The Minority Report
• The Moderate Conservative
• The Political Commentator
• The Sundries Shack
• The Tennessee ConserVOLiance
• The Tygrrrr Express
• The Underground Conservative
• Thunder Run
• Tony Phyrillas
• Tracy Karol
• Truth Serum
• Universitas Veritas
• USA Partisan
• Velvet Hammer
• VirginianFederalist
• VOJ
• Wake up America
• Webloggin
• Western Front America
• Wyoming Vote Tracker
• YID With LID

Better Ways to get some Link Love

Those of you who are weary of my anti-blogroll rants (sorry, Ben!) will be happy to know that I’ve decided to take a more positive, user-friendly, happy, less-angry approach to encouraging my fellow bloggers to attract links without the silly mile-long list of blogs in the sidebar.

We all know links are necessary to build page rank. (We all DO know that, right? Of course we do.) And hopefully, we know by now that scripted blogrolls are not the way to do that effectively (see Why Blogrolling is Useless, and Using [and Abusing?] rel=”nofollow” to Preserve Page Rank.

S,o what are some better ways to attract linksthat are also search-engine friendly (Word for the day: in the SEO world, these are called “white hat” techniques, as opposed to “black hat” techniques that will only work until search engines like Google find a way to block them)?

1. Writing great original content that other bloggers and websites want to link to is always a good option (and the preferred one), then use your social networking skills to draw readers and bloggers to your content.
2. E-Mail other bloggers, with links to your best stories, and ask them to link to you. You might suggest a link exchange, in which you also link to one of their pillar posts, or a recent post.
3. Post an open invitation for bloggers to exchange links on a specific topic. For a good example of this in action, see Careerealism.
4. Create images or content with basic html code that for other bloggers to embed in their websites. One of the most well-known examples of this in action is ICanHazCheezburger.com

Do you have other ideas? We’d love to hear them!

Trackbacks: Win-Win for Bloggers

As political conservatives, we’ve learned the importance of linking to other conservative bloggers, to promote conservatism online. Exchanging links helps us increase our own, and other bloggers page rank.

There’s another advantage to linking to other bloggers. If the blogger you’re linking to has “trackbacks” enabled, a link will be posted in that blogger’s comment section, and readers who are interested in related stories will be directed back to your blog.

Some bloggers, such as Ft. Hard Knox, Michelle Malkin, and Patrick Ruffini have featured trackback sections, and other bloggers show the trackbacks as comments. Either way, readers who are researching for information on the topic of your article are able to find you from the blog you have linked to.

Also see:

• Enough Already! We’re Blog UNRolling
• Why Blogrolling is Useless
• Using (and Abusing) rel=”nofollow” to Preserve Page Rank

Why Blogrolling is Useless (Updated)

Shortly after FHK launched we began searching for ways to increase our rankings on the search engines. The prevailing wisdom was that one good way to do this is to maintain a blogroll (that’s the ridiculously long list of blogs in the sidebar of many blogs), as it is a good way for bloggers to exchange much needed “links,” increase their link count, and move up in the ratings. Read more