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.