Being new to 
, I wandered down the block to my neighbor’s blogs. I’ve always heard the b5folks are a very friendly bunch. I started with the
because I needed the fresh air. When I walked in, I was greeted by Duncan’s post on Blog Links Building Traffic and it lead me to a post on
- The Capitol People Region Blog that makes a compelling argument about links–that links make the difference between a 200,000+ page views a day that Michele Malkin does and the however many pages views a day that you and I do.
- which lead me to Help build traffic by how you link by our own Sabine’s CT BIZ Blogs
- and to Going the distance: building blog traffic through perseverance back at the Blog Herald
where I could finish reading the original post where Duncan mentions the Weblog Empire Blog Link Exchange Forum.
Thinking I should visit at least one more neighbor before the day was over, I stopped by to see what had been going on this week at Blogging Tips at
Darren has been talking about receiving offers to carry links for payment on your blog and what you should consider before you do. While I was there I found two more links from his article on Hate Links.
- One was The Snark Manifesto that you may have seen going around.
- The other is Handling Hate by Andy Hagans.
These aren’t really about linking, but about not linking up with bad things.
Checking My Google Neighborhood
Google says I should link with my neighborhood, blogs that are relevant and related to my own in some way. I guess I just did. If you want to check who Google thinks your neighborhood is, go to Google Search and type in this search text.
Now I know who in my neighborhood I can visit next.
Making New Neighbors
If you’re looking for more links about links and linking you’ll find these worth linking, uh, looking , into:
Think Before You Link
Blog Promotion Basics for Everyone
Intra-Linking as Promotion
Think Before You Intra-link
Checklist for Linking to Quality Blogs
Got Another Link Post?
Of course, there’s always room for more neighbors to stop by here. So if you have a post on linking add it to the comment section of this post. We could start this massive chain of links to posts on linking–just for the fun of it to see where it goes.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
