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I came across this article on page rank and blogrolls that I found very interesting!
He found this site, looked it over and figured out that it was a “splog” — a site that pulls in posts and feeds from other, well followed sites and totally unedited or anything, posts it as it’s own content. This site has a PR of 5!
My poor little one here has a 0, but that’s OK with me — I know what I write is original content, and while I may include a contextual link or two to sites that pertain to what I’m writing about, Google is free to construe those links any way they want to. If I’m writing a review for a site or product, I say what it is — I even occasionally get paid for my reviews (which is a good thing!), but I’m hardly making megabucks with any of them.
I’ll leave it up to my readers to decide if Google PR is awarded fairly or not.
Back to the blogroll thing.
I have a blogroll — a rather small one actually — that mostly points to my other blogs and the blogs of a few friends. I also have a blogroll javascript thingy or two that I can’t tell have generated any more traffic for this humble blog of mine, so perhaps I should remove them and see if anything happens positively. I suppose I should add more “important” links to my blogroll, too — if Andy’s advice is anything to go by, but don’t know how to keep the sidebar that contains the blogroll from showing up on the indivdual posts. I suppose that’s a template thing 
It’s all food for thought and I thank Andy for mentioning it. — Oh, and Andy, since you asked us not to, I won’t add you to my blogroll. Thanks for the interesting viewpoint on blogrolls!
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December 5th, 2007 at 12:10 am
Maybe you should get a Site Meter (sitemeter.com) that tells you where traffic is coming from. I have this on my blog.
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December 5th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Yes, I have access to those reports, too, so I also know where traffic is coming from, however this article isn’t about where your traffic comes from, but how to optimize SEO by limiting your outgoing links to those that reciprocate (at the very least).
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