[…] points of course. One of the first things I’d do is lifting the consequences of an ongoing Google-Blogger conspiracy by adding a few links to Google’s blogroll. Next I’d catch the saboteur in the Blogger […]

JLH, I really appreciate your thoughtful linking within your content! That’s not just “worth a little something”, actually those links are way better than blogroll links, because these topical connectors send me visitors who are interested in the stuff I wrote. As a byproduct they carry hearty search engine love, what is more than the sheer cyclic PageRank transfers and more or less non-topical site connectors from blogroll to blogroll can do.

Not that blogroll links are bad, but they usually deliver less visitors in a year than a linked post per day. Ok, the Google blogroll definitely sends more visitors, I know that from lurking in foreign stats. But as you say, Google and Blogger have this unreal conspiracy thingy running what excludes our blogs from a honor they certainly deserve. Perhaps I’ve slandered the blogger crew too often, and revealing that the Google founders threw chairs on their engineers in building 43 didn’t help much either. Selling PR8 links in lots of thousands and paparazzing Adam Lasnik may have put us over the edge. Sigh.

JohnMu, oh why do you rub salt into my wounds? Nick Baum is such a helpful guy, I just can’t bother him with a request to develop a gadget which carries clean links to shared items. Also, I’m not sure we can convince Dan Crow to tell Ms. Googlebot that following JavaScript links within the GoogleReader gadgets is a bright idea. Well, I can think of a way to convert the shared feed into a raw blog post. If I’ll find the time I’ll put code where my principles are: linking out loud gains link love.

Thank you all

I definitely think you deserve some link love for all the good info you have been posting. We are linking to you this Friday.

Khalid