How Not To Get Sex Blog Links
I get a lot of people who write in looking to get on the blog roll. Whether that happens tends to depend on intangible factors, but it almost never happens immediately. Usually I dump those emails into a folder to look at when I’m short of blogging material; and there’s stuff a year old in there that I haven’t looked at yet.
I can’t offer tips on what’s likely to strike my fancy. But I can offer the following tips on what not to do:
1) Send me an email about your nifty blog — and omit to send along a link. Believe it or not, this happens a lot.
2) Ask for a link…but don’t put up a link to ErosBlog. For extra points, ask for links to your “blog” that doesn’t have any outgoing links.
3) Ask to “exchange” links. I figure, if you like ErosBlog, you’ll already have a link up. And if you don’t like it, odds are you’ll “forget” to put up my link later.
4) Ask for a link to your nifty new blog “that only has one post so far.”
5) Ask for a link to your blog — that doesn’t exist at the specified URL a mere week later.
I could go on in this vein, but that’s a good start.
Shorter URL for sharing: http://www.erosblog.com/?p=906
I get lots of automated link requests that I think are generated by some software package. Many of the sites have nothing that matches mine.
And there are all those kind folks who send in tips about sites that I might like to mention. All of them little more than fronts for ecommerce sites. As if I’m too dumb to tell.
Though a few have had something worth pointing to and I’ve done it gladly even if they are a pay site.
Thanks for my link.
Ah,I remember breaking one of your rules when I first started blogging: I wrote you within days of its creation asking for a link. You were so kind in asking me to post for a week or so and you’d consider.
I did, and I distinctly remember the gentle pressure to continue my writing regularly and not screw with my readership by being too fickle or lazy.
The advice was so helpful. I’ve been approached to publish, and I can truly say that you, Bacchus, helped me to be self-disciplined enough to get a tiny bit of attention.
Hugs.
What about posting a link to yours on one of ours and hoping that you read your referers… you do read your referers, right (he says, hoping that, like the prom queen, he’ll be picked…)
Eric, that’s always the best plan. How well it works depends on how busy I am, since reading referrers takes time and is a low-priority task.
Commenting routinely and pleasantly on my blog often works well too.;)