Enough, Already…We’re Blog UNrolling! (Updated)

UPDATED 07/21/08: In order to continue to promote the blogs we like, we have (as promised) revived and re-formatted our FHK Blog Honor Roll. Now in the sidebar, you’ll see links to articles we’ve found on the web that we think you might like to read. Those articles will be archived in monthly blog posts, like these. This way, we’ll help 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.

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Not long ago, I published an article, Why Blogrolling is Useless, explaining why blogrolls that use javascript are no longer “counted” on ranked search engines like Technorati. The whole purpose of the blogroll, of course, is to exchange and accumulate links.

Although we did find that the blogrolling sofware used by Wordpress does “count” on Technorati, we did some further research and found that even that is useless, for the most part, because most of the bloggers on our blogroll either weren’t reciprocating the links, or were using software like Blogrolling that uses javascript - and so those reciprocated links weren’t working. Read more

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