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Nobody Blogrolling Me?

Accoriding to wholinkstome there are a bunch of links to me.
I know only some people use blogrolling, and I've seen other people have me in their lists of linked blogs.

I have 30+ people in my blogrolling list on the side --->

But wholinestome shows that nobody appears to be linking to here.

Should I care?
Should I remind others to blogroll me? (Feels like begging or nagging.)
Should I delete the ones I blogroll who use blogroll and don't blogroll me? (Seems petty.)
Should I assume something is wrong with wholinksme? (I've peaked at a couple sites, I'm not there, do I need to do a full inventory?)
Should I assume something is wrong with blogroll for my site, and people just can't add me for some reason? (Could it be that simple?)
Maybe it is because I haven't done '100 things' yet. :)

What would you do? :)

Comments

Lisa said…
I've been linking to you for a few weeks now; so I'd assume wholinkstome stinks.

*grins*
Fri Nov 05, 01:15:00 PM MST
Keith Horowitz said…
I really do appreciate all the other blogs who have taken the time to put a link to me on their pages someplace.

But I was specifically talking about the 'blogrolling' app on the side of my blog. Instead of manually putting in all my links, I signed up at blogrolling.com, added blog URLs there, and put a bit of script on my site. Then blogrolling pulls up my list of linked blogs. Blogrolling gives you a couple of easy ways to add URLs. Of course, the service isn't perfect - they have had some glitches in the past.
I know at least a few of the blogs I put into blogrolling.com use blogrolling on their sites too. But I think that none of those people that use blogrolling have linked me back. I'd be happy to admit I was wrong and that wholinkstome is wrong - but I'm not sure I am. I guess I will have to inventory to see.
Fri Nov 05, 01:44:00 PM MST
Lisa said…
Ahh, blogrolling. I used that a long time ago but it kept going down, then Tucows took over and it went South fast. ;)

You can go straight to the source (rather than wholinkstome) to verify their results:

http://blogrolling.com/search_linked.phtml?q=http%3A%2F%2Fkah731.blogspot.com%2F

which does seem accurate.

___

In answer to the question in your post, my personal take on it. Blogroll people who's sites you enjoy; comment on their sites every once in awhile and eventually they'll start linking back to you.

That is the theory that I use, anyway. I wouldn't stress over it too much. =)
Fri Nov 05, 04:41:00 PM MST
Keith Horowitz said…
Thanks to great advice from both Lisa and Lisa. I guess I got a little carried away wishing things were more balanced. But I realize you are both right. I just need to be happy with what it does for me. That is pretty much what I've been doing, but I started to wonder if I was being slighted and if I should be insulted. I've been reminded in friendly ways that I shouldn't gauge myself on what other people do.
Thanks!
Fri Nov 05, 06:47:00 PM MST
Keith Horowitz said…
Yay - someone is finally blogrolling me! :)
http://aurorealis.com/
It is so new that it hasn't shown up in any of the searches yet.
Tue Nov 09, 11:09:00 PM MST
Anonymous said…
What would I do? I would and will now Thank you for the reminder. I went thru the list on my site and two links are dead...people I know in Tampa that gave up blogging. ...AND needed to add a few...including yours. I need to update my TiVo list too, but that's a bigger project. Well, I don't update it at all...Ryan does..but still.

Thanks for the reminder!

Michelle
www.girlandgeek.com
Wed Nov 10, 10:23:00 PM MST
Keith Horowitz said…
well, the blogrolling finally shows one person linking back. But wholinkstome still shows nobody. So I guess you were all right: wholinkstome isn't worth taking at face value, and it isn't worth getting stressed about people linking back to me.
Thu Nov 11, 06:18:00 AM MST
Anonymous said…
I find new blogs linking to me via Technorati, you just enter your main url and have a look see.
Fri Nov 12, 09:14:00 AM MST
Keith Horowitz said…
Thanks Anonymous! I check and saw some of the other blogs linking to me.

I also went back again and checked blogrolling. I've got two people linking me. One I had purchased blogshares in, but had not linked. Littlebits is now on my blogroll too!

And then it hit me - there is a chance that I was blogrolled by different urls. I have blog.kah731.com pointing to here kah731.blogspot.com. So when I checked that I found more. And then I tried without the trailing slash. More. Egg on my face. Time for an appology entry.
Fri Nov 12, 09:32:00 AM MST
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