{"id":288,"date":"2008-03-25T13:10:16","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T03:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/03\/good-blogging\/"},"modified":"2012-02-23T15:34:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T04:34:10","slug":"good-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/03\/good-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Good blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently read a post by Jeff Attwood in his Coding Horror blog. He wrote thirteen blog clich\u00e9s that he doesn’t like seeing in blogs<\/a> – it is like a list of what not to do for a good blog, and was quite an interesting read.<\/p>\n

While his post stands as is, some of his points particularly stood out to me so I will discuss them in my blog \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

One that I very much agree with is his point 5 – the big blogroll. He writes about the waste of listing many blogs in your blog roll, and wrote “It feels artificial and insincere.” Personally, a selective blogroll is a value-add; a long blogroll is ignored.<\/p>\n

So what is wrong with listing so many blogs? For starters, a long list doesn’t give any sense of referral or recommendation to the listed blogs, compared to a select listing is likely to be meaningful. It is also hard to find anything from a long list – so at least break the list in to sub-lists to make it more user-friendly.<\/p>\n

A particularly long list can also distort the look of a page, especially for short posts.<\/p>\n

Having said that, what are the advantages of including some blogs in your blogroll? For starters, it builds the blogging community to link and refer to each other. A crafted blogroll can also help your readers find more information on relevant topics, which they will appreciate.<\/p>\n

Links to and from your blog can help with your traffic and search engine rankings, so that in itself makes a blogroll and reciprocal links worth considering. But remember that links within your posts are also effective for rankings and readers, so a minimalist blogroll doesn’t mean you can’t link to additional blogs.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Are you impressed by a long blogroll when you visit a blog?<\/p>\n

Happy writing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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