Stricter Guidelines for my Blogroll
When Google gives me a pagerank (which is expected to be updated in April, so I will finally be given a pagerank), they determine the quality of my outbound links as a factor.
So far, because my blog was so new and I’m such a nice guy, I just exchanged blog links with everybody who asked, basically. I had an interesting chat with John Chow today over lunch, and he pointed out a few things to me. When Google gives me a pagerank (which is expected to be updated in April, so I will finally be given a pagerank), they determine the quality of my outbound links as a factor. My pagerank is forecasted to be 4/10 according to a somewhat-trustworthy 3rd party engine I found somewhere, and I don’t want to ruin that opportunity.
Starting today I am cropping out the following type of blogs from my blogroll :
- Does not update regularly (I’m not asking for once a day - just regularly. I don’t care if it’s once a week).
- Has no valid content. By valid content I mean it generates its own content (instead of gathering posts from other blogs and putting it all in one blog), and is not commercial (i.e. if your blog exists for the sole purpose of selling things for your affiliates). I will only link to blogs that have valid content that have valid information for surfers.
- Has no relevancy to my blog. There are great logs out there that have great content that I do read, but it’s bad for my pagerank if that other blog does not have anything that is related to mine. I will do blog reviews of these type of blogs, but no links will be posted on a permanent basis.
For other bloggers out there - I suggest you do the same.
Would you be interested in a link exchange?
yes sir. I like your blog.
Hey Jeff . . just sent you an email about a link exchange. Also, I was wondering if you wanted to do one of JC’s evil blog promotion ideas. I’ll reviewme you if you reviewme me
. . hope to hear from you soon!
Yup you’re on my link list.
Agreed wholeheartedly!
I never started my blog to make money, I just wanted to have a fun forum for my friends, family and anyone else interested to check up on. However, seeing my friend Stephen Fung and guys like John Chow making their primary income on their sites does encourage me somewhat. I would be very happy if my blog was able to bring in enough revenue to pay for itself and anything extra would be a bonus.
However, I see that some people have lost site of the point of having a blog and the line between relevant posts and blatant commercial advertising have been greyed.
I’d like to try this Dim Sum. Maybe later this year I’ll get to join yall around this round table.
Good to see I’m still on the blogroll.
Will you be striking me off or can I stay?
btw, what tool do you use to predict your page rank?
Your name stays Chris!
I’ll try to find it.. in the meantime search Google and see if you can find it anywhere.. I can’t remember where I saw it though.
Ok no problem.
None of my sites have a page rank yet, I’m hoping for at least a PR of 2! Anything more would be better though, obviously