Comments on: Informal Poll – Where is the line between link love & too much link love?

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:27:58 +0000

@Anali – you have a good point. I do really like link love on design blogs; not EVERY day mind you, but I like link love on design blogs more than anywhere else. Also, I can see where cooking blogs benefit, because you can offer more than the norm of cool recipe links. But personally, I’m not interested in reading loads of most links, even a lot of green link love (and I LOVE green blogs), that said, I only do green links myself once a week or less. I guess it depends on the blogger and topic.

By: Anali

Anali — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:01:34 +0000

Maybe it depends on the types of blogs that you read?

I’ve noticed that when I really enjoy and look forward to weekly link love, it’s usually on certain types of blogs. Many design and cooking blogs will have a nice roundup of interesting things they’ve seen that week. I’ve also seen 6 degrees of blogging type posts, which I think are fun.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:51:33 +0000

@Deb – I remember those old school blogs – with just links. Some of the posts were so long, it’s sure not the blogs we know now.

@Everyone – It seems that we’re erring on the side of less link love is better link love. I’m glad we all seem to agree. My gut was telling me that less is more.

@Jenn – I really agree with and like your suggestion. IMO it’s cool when people list some extra info in link form after an original post. That’s like the best of both worlds.

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:30:24 +0000

I’ll tolerate an occasional link post, especially if it has a theme or commentary, but if I wanted just links, I’d subscribe to someone’s bookmarking feed.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:51:21 +0000

I like a weekly link love update. That way I don’t get too inundated, and yet am exposed to new information and sources that will probably be relevant to me.

By: Laura-Jane - Whimfield

Laura-Jane - Whimfield — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:25:09 +0000

If there’s something that’s so amazing and you can’t wait to share it, then…of course, share a link…but I don’t particularly like link loves on their own. I think it’s because I find them overwhelming. The internet has so many amazing sites that it’s mind-boggling…

In general, I would say that I’m not a fan of scheduled link love myself. If I’m here, it’s because I want to be. Why send me elsewhere? On occasion they’re okay (once every week or two), but any more than that would be too much in my book.

But, as you mentioned, everybody’s different!

By: Jenn

Jenn — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:19:48 +0000

This was actually a big issue in what I like to call the “PR blog party” – There are more than a handful of PR bloggers who obnoxiously link to each other within their little echochamber. In those cases, it’s not even so much the link love posts, with a list of links, but rather constantly feeling a need to link to those they agree with both for backlinks and support for their own views (quite a few won’t post anything too opinionated if they don’t first know their buddies will back them up). It’s quite disgusting, and the readers do eventually notice.

For list-specific link love posts, I don’t see any good reason to do it more than weekly. I’d probably get annoyed if my favorite bloggers started doing it daily.

If they really want to spread the love with every post, there’s a better option. Write unique content, and then link to 5-10 related posts on other blogs below it. It’s added value for readers, because they can further dig into the subject matter if they want to, you’ll still build backlinks with trackbacks, and still get the attention of those bloggers when they see the links come in. I’ve actually been wanting to do this for a while at AllFreelanceWriting.com, but never seem to remember.

By: Deb

Deb — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:06:53 +0000

I like to do a weekly link love post – sharing my week’s reading with others.

Also, originally blogs were nothing but links. The first blogs were just people sharing links with others.

By: Linette

Linette — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:54:05 +0000

I like link posts, but only if they have a purpose or theme. Random link love not so much. I try not to do it more than once or twice a week.