Comments on: Tips to Request Links from Top Bloggers

By: Patrix

Patrix — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:34:51 +0000

X, dig it up. I guess, I am in the old boys club now :)

By: x

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:29:16 +0000

And Iâ€™ve completely agreed with their choice and never once complained.

Are you sure? Some post regarding old boys club comes to mind …

By: Patrix

Patrix — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:01:46 +0000

Rezwan, social news networking sites have made it easier for smaller blogs to get noticed but most consider it hard work promoting their stories and even social networking sites like Digg have their old boys club that A-list bloggers are accused of. Kiruba’s Extra Bed initiative is indeed notable and deserves to be spread around.

Santosh, Heh. Tried to come up with a comparable English word but couldn’t :)

By: Santosh

Santosh — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:46:12 +0000

Nice use of the word “raada”.

By: Rezwan

Rezwan — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:50:15 +0000

I agree to your point that no one has any obligation to link another. There are many ways to propagate one's article. One can take initiative to get listed in aggregators or use tools like Nowpublic. Blog articles become popular not only by linking from top bloggers but the quality and ingenuity of the content. And for the good content you do not need to do anything to get linked. I check Desipundit regularly and have tipped a few links (not my writings) because I felt that these should be shared to a lot of people. For an example today I was amazed with Kiruba's Extra Bed report and is dying to spread the news everywhere.

By: Link away… « JAB

Link away… « JAB — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:42:12 +0000

[...] Tue 30 Jan 2007 Link away… Posted by chaitra under Article Every once in a while when we have a slow news day [or a week], the blogosphere creates its own raad… [...]

By: Patrix

Patrix — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:48:30 +0000

Havoc, I guess you would know better coz you are out there now. But blogging, as in any activity eventually forms ‘cartels’ or networks that can get increasingly difficult to break into. Like it or not, we all are part of some ‘cartel’ or the other.

Beth, Glad to have you in the comments here. I agree with what you say – manners do count. It is not just what you have to say but how you say it too. Thanks for the tips.

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:01:32 +0000

Gawd, I couldn’t agree with you more on these points about link-blegging. I got so tired of it I ended up putting my email address in a page about an email policy I was forced to write, and I’ve even put that page link in a dropdown for all my “pages.” IOW, if someone really needs to email me, they’re gonna have to have at least two brain cells to find the email address.
For those who auto-spam every post they write, I “helpfully suggested” a couple links to free opt-in newsletter services. One got the point immediately, and although he was a little miffed, he quit spamming me. Others cut back, and another apparently didn’t even READ MY EMAIL (and he expected me to read his?!).

Here’s another couple of tips for people who send links: check that blogger’s site BEFORE emailing them! I can’t believe the chutzpah of people who will email me saying “OMGZ, look at this story!!1!” when I’ve already covered it myself! If you’re mass-emailing, be honest right up front and say “this is urgent” (and it had better be urgent) “but I haven’t had a chance to check everyone’s sites, so please forgive me if you’ve already written something about this.” Or whatever. Bottom line: MANNERS COUNT. At the very least, assume that whomever you are asking for a link has about 100 times more email than you do, and acknowledge the spamee’s time is limited. And as said in the post, know the person to whom you’re sending the link. It’s extremely irritating (and shows you don’t care about the spamee’s blog at all except for links) to get a bleg for a link to a post about Subject X, about which I couldn’t care less. I’ve gotten link requests for posts that actually are in complete opposition to what I believe in (try being a conservative political blogger that’s OK with Bush’s immigration strategy and thinks Tom Tancredo is a mouth-breathing idiot!). KNOW YOUR SPAMEE. Don’t send a Linux fanatic a post about how much you think Windows Vista r0xx0rz. (Duh!)

Also: use a spell-checker–in the email AND in your post. Nobody with a brain is going to link to someone who calls himself a “writer” but can’t spell or put together a coherent sentence. If you’re a lousy writer, you may as well quit begging. It’s not gonna happen whether you beg or not.

Yeah, I’m crabby as hell about email, could you tell? It’s one of the reasons I’m on a break from blogging and instead hanging out in everyone else’s blog comments. ;-)

By: Havoc

Havoc — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:23:26 +0000

I have noticed that a few top Indian bloggers (I dont wish to name them) have formed a sort of a blogging cartel and when they want to raise an issue they do it through their group.

I was surprised to notice this in blogging coz inherently its supposed to be a liberal channel!!