I’ve noticed a lot of other bloggers basically just giving out links. Links to blogs they like, links to blogs on their blogrolls, links to their top commentors, or links to where they link to!

That’s a lot of link love.

So I just wanted to share some recent posts I’ve enjoyed from other blogs around the net.

From our author list:

Making Money from Your Videos by Mike
Links I Like by Chris
Lies, damn lies and Google Analytics by Ed
It’s a total bla.st by John Chow
Here We Go Again! by Blonde Chick
The Market is Open by DolphinFan

I encourage our other authors to share some links. I was also thinking about doing a monthly or bi-monthly blog carnival. Bloggers would be able to submit one article and have it basically listed on our blog.

Would anyone be interested in this? The category could be anything, I think we could do better with no category though. I would be looking for your best or favorite post of the month.

Leave us a comment about whatever you want. Hopefully we can get a little discussion going in our comment box. I will personally visit each commentors blog, and I hope others will too! I will select a random blog to add to our BlogRoll for the week.

Our authors should join in, should get you a few extra visitors just by leaving a comment 🙂

Start commenting!

[Update]

This week I’ve chosen Blue Panther 

You never know when the blog muses of the universe will hit you with a life lesson.

Today, while I was enjoying my Italian BMT from Subway, I developed this little tale. Take a look and let me know your thoughts.

Remember When Bologna Didn’t Matter?

First of all, why would you want to list every site you have ever linked to? In the case of The Pisstakers, nearly all the information and food for thought required to create ranting humor(less) posts has come from other sites on the internet. The extraction script enabled us to view all links to those inspirational sites.

We could have stuck with a simple lazy ass links list, but instead we thought we would add our own short commentary on each site and develop the longest homage in history. Looking at the miniscule percentage of links so far completed, it may not get finished any time soon, but we are here for the long run!

Why else might you want to extract all outbound links? According to the script writer, it makes it easier to identify bad neighborhoods. Presumably by bad, he means sites with low Google page rank. That may well be so, but surely everyone starts at zero, so it would be a harsh and cold blogmaster who chopped out links to anyone blogging consistently but still below a certain PR? But if you want to get on in life, maybe you have to go against the spirit of the internet from time to time in order not to dilute your own page ranking?

All you need to do to see the script in action is go to Right Scripts and their Outbound link checker, input a URL and see what happens. It may take some time!

Stefanie from Random Encounters of We has been chosen for a Blog about your Blog author interview. I have asked her a series of questions about some personal things, blogging and blog about your blog. I hope you enjoy the interview.

When was your blog created?

Random Encounters of We was created November 11, 2006. My husband found an article by Steve Pavlina and that kind of inspired the whole beginning.

Why did you choose your blog topic?

My blog doesn’t really have a topic. It is about the random dealings of my life. It has a little something for everyone: money making tips, humor, sponsored posts, news articles. We (my husband and I) did some research about what kind of blogs do the best and such when we were deciding on a topic and title. We decided we really didn’t know too much about anything and so what other choice did we have than to make it random. It’s really eclectic.

I guess the best topic is no topic!

Did you think you were going to be instantly successful?

No, I hoped, but my realistic side knew I wouldn’t be immediately successful. I knew from our research that blogs with a specific niche did the best, but we didn’t have a specific topic so we jumped in and hoped for the best. I think I would say that we have had little successes.

What do you enjoy most about blogging?

I enjoy providing interesting or helpful content to the reader. I try to write articles about things that have really helped me. I try to convey my sincerity with the things that I post so my readers know that I’m not leading them astray or claiming false things. I also like to add some humor when I can find it.

Where do you see your website in one year?

Along with Random Encounters of We we have some other blogs. We self titled the collection our “random world.” We have Random Games and Random Super Heroes. In a year we hope to have a few more blogs added to our random world. We want Random Encounters to evolve along with our knowledge of blogging.

I can see a little random ring of blogs forming.

Do you have any new upcoming projects or ideas you want to announce?

Random Encounters of We just received a face lift actually. We were sick of having a standard blogger template and so my husband has been learning a few tricks on how to personalize it and make it our own. That was the major project that we just completed. I’m sure he has something else up his sleeve for improvement.

I was so stuck until I contacted Lee about BAYB template. Once you find your own template and features you can then finally emerge as your own blog.

What is the best feature on your blog?

Since we are new to blogging and programming we have kept our blog malleable. I love how it evolves with the new things that we learn. It is constantly growing along with us which helps to keep it fresh (in my opinion).

When will you feel like an accomplished blogger, or do you already? If so, why?

I’m proud of what we have completed so far with the blogs but I wouldn’t say I feel accomplished. We have a few personal goals that we set in the beginning and perhaps when we reach those goals I’ll feel more accomplished. I feel like there is so much to learn and I have been blogging for such a short period of time that I am definitely still a novice.

Share some of those goals with us.

What do you rely most on to get traffic to your blog or website?

Link Referral brings in a TON of traffic to our site. It is a great program and doesn’t require much maintenance. The most important thing we do to bring in traffic is write quality or interesting content and then get it on either digg or reddit. When we manage to get some articles on those sites our stats really soar. Plus being apart of Blog About Your Blog helps since this site is huge and growing every day!

Thanks for the plug! We also use Link Referral, but unless you spend time on it daily, it doesn’t pay off as much.

And the final series of questions, a little bit about Blog About Your Blog

How did you find us?

I found Matt in blogger forum. He had a post about wanting to make a community blog and wondered if anyone would be interested or thought it was a good idea. I commented that I thought it was a great idea and would love to be apart of it. I hold a little pride in that I was one of the first to join Blog about your Blog. It’s like I can say “I knew you before you were famous!”

I am taking everyone to the top with me when we make it! I have daydreams about being able to cut everyone a fat check.

What do you like most about BAYB?

I love the community feel. Even though I don’t really know anyone on this blog in person I feel like I have some friends here. I loyally check a lot of the other authors blogs. I also love how huge this community is getting to be. Not only with register authors, but on MyBlogLog the stats are always crazy high. It’s incredible.

I like that the most about us, with one post, you will at least attract the fellow authors of the blog, let alone our readers. I have set personal goals for MyBlogLog and have spent a nice amount of time trying to get more people to join our community. We are on our way to the top 50.

And for the hardest question of all…

What do you like the least?

I feel like the articles on BAYB are of really good quality and content and I don’t feel up to par, so I don’t contribute as much as I would like.

Any contribution is a good contribution. What is great about us is like your blog, there is no topic. You and your husband have tons to offer and I hope you blog with us more.

Who have you chosen to be the next one interviewed?

I have chosen Ed the Editor from The Pisstakers. I wrote an article once and he found it and included it on his blog and that really perked my spirits and made me feel like I was doing some good. He then reviewed our blog. He is a fun guy and I think he would make for a funny and interesting interviewee.

I hope I am up to par about asking Ed some questions. I already have a few extra submitted to ask, if anyone else has some questions for Ed please feel free to submit them. We’d love some more original and unique questions. Are you ready Ed?

My girlfriend submitted our son’s pictures in a few contests, and he was chosen as cutest kid of the day. He will be featured on the front page of parents.com for the rest of today. Here is a screenshot of the picture. Isn’t he precious?

We’ve all been there, your blog is languishing in the depths of Technorati Despair, and nobody is reading what you have written. You fancy encouraging a spike of activity around the blogosphere, so what you do is post a few comments on your favourite blogs.

Comments are the best form of getting comments, I mean, at the very least you’ll get at least one clickthrough, at best you’ll get your comment referenced in a later post (such as one of my comments on Mike’s Money Making Mission). There a good way of building traffic between blogs, as often blogs have similar readerships.

Just one word of advice, don’t be shameless with your self promotion, and offer something to the post, other than just your blog.

One such incident a few years back was considered the birth of targetted adverts. Uber-blogger Tom Coates blogged about his father when he got a comment. It seemed heartfelt, but on further research the comment was from a splog, you can catch up more with this story here. Tom Coates was a fairly big fish in the small blogging pool, and it got brought up on the BBC website too, so much so that the reputable company behind the comment had to issue a formal apology regarding the whole situation.

All of us here would love more readers, of course! We’re all bloggers here, and we all actively participate in the blogosphere. We are all understanding, and want to make a useful contribution to the blogosphere, and to other people’s posts. Just don’t shamelessly promote your blog. If you do, you’ll get far less readers than you may hope for.

With that being said, I’m sure you’d all love my fantastic personal blog: The Gospel According To Rhys 😉