How to Use a Blogroll to Promote Your Blog
Make a Blog List for Promotion and Networking
What is a Blogroll?
A blogroll is simply a list of links that you put on your blog. The list contains links to your own blogs and/or other blogs that you find interesting, or those managed by those you network with. When someone visits your blog, they will see the blogroll, which increases exposure to all sites you have listed there.
Am I Limited to One Blogroll?
You can have more than one blog roll. Your individual circumstances and what you hope to gain will dictate how you manage your lists, but you might make separate lists for:
Your own blogs
A collection of blogs or articles on niche topics
Blogs maintained by friends and/or family
How Do I Make a Blogroll?
If you use Blogger, making a blog roll is as easy as adding a gadget and selecting blog list or link list and entering the URLs for the various sites/blogs. If you will be putting more than one list on your blog, you might choose to give each niche a title, or let the list stand alone.
The blog roll function on Wordpress is accessed via the Links section of the Administration Panels.
Blogrolling.com is one popular site that stores the information on your lists and provides you a single URL to add that list to your blog. It allows you to maintain all of your blog lists with one account so that you can access any of your lists from one location and add them to a number of blogs or sites with just a few keystrokes.
How Do I Use My Blogroll to Network?
If you blog on a niche topic, you probably follow others of like content. If you start a blogroll on a particular topic, you might mention it to those you follow; if they use blog rolls for networking, they might reciprocate by including your blog on their own blogroll. Targeted blogrolls have the potential to greatly increase exposure to your blog.
How Else Can I Use a Blog Roll? Is it Just for Blogs?
Your link list or blog roll can be made up of anything with a URL. If you're an article writer, you might make a link list for recent articles you've written, or all articles on a particular topic - your own or those written by colleagues. A link list is an easy way to promote articles by adding the single URL for the list rather than each article separately.
It takes time to create and maintain a blog and develop a following; let a blogroll help you save time promoting it.
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19 Comments
Post a CommentVermy helpful information. Thanks!
Very helpful to bloggers!
This is so helpful. I keep saying I'm going to start a blog. I just need to do it. :-)
Excellent information, and very helpful blogroll advice.
Thanks for this. I am going to put this to use and saved for my personal file.
Excellent! Very helpful information on something I still hadn't fully understood.
Good info - thanks! :)
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This is a terrific and helpful article. I'm always willing to trade blogroll links with others. Not only does it help everyone but it's fun to see what people are up to.
This is a terrific and helpful article. I'm always willing to trade blogroll links with others. Not only does it help everyone but it's fun to see what people are up to.