Creating a blogroll

Most bloggers like to read blogs as much as they like to blog themselves. They have favorites, and they're happy to share them with you in the form of a blogroll: a list of links that the blogger regularly refers to. Blogrolls are also a way for bloggers to share blogs they admire with their readers.

Of course, bloggers also create a blogroll for other reasons:

1 It never hurts your search engine rankings to be linking to highly trafficked Web sites.

1 The blog you link to may return the favor, especially if your blog is sending it traffic.

Blogrolls are usually sorted alphabetically and placed in a column on the right or left of the blog content, as shown in Figure 13-4.

You can easily add a blogroll to your blog, but you do have to spend some time researching available blogs to find those that are most appropriate for you and for your audience. People reading your blog while they are at work don't appreciate being sent to something X-rated or frivolous just as the boss walks by.

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Blogrolls are also usually fairly organic — expect to add and remove blogs over time, especially if you're actually using your blogroll to detail what blogs you are reading. Blogs come and go, so be sure to check the blogs you include in your blogroll regularly to make sure they are still active.

To get your blogroll online, check to see if your blog software has a mechanism designed specifically to create it. Some do; some don't. If you don't have built-in blogrolling or linking functionality and can't just write the HTML for it yourself, take a look at BlogRolling and Bloglines, both of which can generate a blogroll for you.

If you're a chronic link surfer, and you want to share many interesting links on your site each day, consider setting up a second blog. If your blog software lets you create multiple Web logs, you can just create another blog and alter your templates to display the link blog alongside your main blog.

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BlogRolling is a free Web-based tool was designed to give you an easy way to create and use your blogroll. Simply visit www.blogrolling.com and register for a free account. You have to handle a little bit of copying and pasting to get the necessary code onto your blog, but once that's done, adding and editing your blogroll are fairly simple.

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If you are using Bloglines (www.Bloglines.com) to read RSS feeds, you can generate a blogroll based on those feeds to put on your blog. You have to copy and paste a snippet of code into one of your blog's templates, but once that's done the blogroll is completely automatic. Follow the blogroll instructions on the Share tab.

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Furl (www.furl.net) is a Web tool that lets you save bookmarks and actual Web pages in your own personal archive. It also has a way to place your latest saved pages on your site (and, incidentally, in a daily e-mail newsletter).

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  • evie
    How to make a blogroll?
    1 year ago
    1. Log in to your blog and select the page or post where you want the blogroll to appear.
    2. Click the Text tab on the Visual Editor toolbar to access the HTML code for the page or post.
    3. Type the following code where you want the blogroll to appear:<ul>
    4. Add a list item for each blog in the blogroll with the following HTML code: <li><a href="LINKTOBLOG">BLOGTITLE</a></li>
    5. Replace LINKTOBLOG with the URL address of the blog and replace BLOGTITLE with the name of the blog you want to link to.
    6. Repeat step 5 for each blog you want to link to.
    7. Close the unordered list HTML tag with </ul>.
    8. Save the page or post and preview it to make sure that the blogroll appears as expected.
    • nasih
      How to make a blog roll?
      1 year ago
      1. Gather the URLs of the websites you'd like to add to your blog roll.
      2. Log into your blog platform and find the settings page.
      3. Look for the option to add blog roll links.
      4. Copy and paste the URLs of the sites you'd like to add.
      5. Add a title for each link and click Save.
      6. Repeat the process for any other sites you'd like to add.
      7. Go to your blog's homepage and check to make sure the blog roll links are visible.
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