Why I do not put a blogroll in this weblog?
in Webdev
I got some request for a link exchange in my weblog. Some people asked me to put a link in my weblogs. Since I do not have a section called “blogroll”, I can’t do that. I have some reasons not to put a blogroll-like in my weblogs:
- There are too many blogs. It might be different in 2002. At that time, Indonesian bloggers were not as many as we have now.
- I can’t guarantee that all links are valid. Some bloggers change their web addresses.
Those are my main reasons. It does not mean that I do not visit other blogs. In fact, I read many blogs. I have hundreds of feeds in my RSS reader. I read aggregators. I am a blogger. I am a blog reader.
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This entry receives 9 comments.
snydez
at least you have a commenting system available :)
Feb 19, 2007 at 2:54 pm
sufehmi
Completely in agreement with you here, nowadays with so much friends we’ve made on Indonesian blogosphere, blogroll management is something that’s becoming way too much time-consuming.
I was deliberating for quite a while on this, before finally deleting my whole blogroll.
To honor my friends, then I decided to install DoFollow plugin - which will disable WordPress’ nofollow tag.
Feb 19, 2007 at 4:49 pm
kus
same as with me, Now and future may be I wont to place another blog link to my page.
But if sometimes the money is on my mouth, may be I will do it.
Of course with stylish mode is ON
Feb 19, 2007 at 6:26 pm
ananta
I don’t have it in my blog since I started it :)
Reason? Just like sufehmi said, it’s very time-consuming
I also remove links section for similar reason
Feb 20, 2007 at 12:31 pm
firman firdaus
i do have link page, but it never updated since there are too many new blogs. i will start thinking to get rid of that page now, hehe…
Feb 21, 2007 at 11:50 am
chocoluv
i have it on my blog
but never really use it :P
i was thinking about erasing it since there are so many new blogs i found. they’re all good, but if i put all of them on my blogroll, then my sidebar will be very very long :D
Feb 21, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Thomas Arie
Yes, the main reason is that it there are to many blogs. I just do not want to answer this kind of questions, “Can you put my blog into your blogroll?”. I just can’t imagine how my site will look like if I put 100 links in my sidebar.
It does not mean that I do not respect other bloggers… it’s just too many.
Feb 21, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Fatih
hehe blog is completely personal thing, belongs to a person or individual which is nothing to do with somebody else like, say, institution. so, any decision on one’s blog is completely personal. either agree or disagree with link-or-not-to-link stuff it should be respected. including, in this case, your decision to do so. :)
Feb 24, 2007 at 4:06 am
Zawa
Jreeeeeng… sakjane aku yo gak pati seneng nggae blog rolling, cuman mesakno konco2 sing wis ngelink blogku…. dadi nek sempat yo tak link sisan hehehehe…
met kenal mas thomas….
Mar 16, 2007 at 7:15 pm