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Blue Gal mobilizes her army:
Skippy and Jon Swift are spearheading Blogroll Amnesty Day this Sunday. If you want to participate, post some love for one to six of your favorite small blogs (defined as blogs with less traffic than your own) on Sunday, February 3.
The idea is to draw attention to some of the lesser known gems of the blogosphere. Rather than pick a few of my favorites, I think I’ll trawl your blogrolls for your little-known treasures. Hopefully, I’ll meet (and introduce my readers to) a few new (new to me!) voices.
The only rules: February 3, blogs with less traffic than your own, and put “Blogroll Amnesty Day” in your title.
Hmm. My office computer is futzing. Won’t let me link to Blue Gal, screws up every time I do anything with a pop-up window. I had better publish before I lose this altogether.
D.
IS there a blog with less traffic than my own? I don’t see how that’s possible.
Surf around, m’dear. You’ll find lots of blogs that routinely get 0 comments per post.
My traffic is essentially Doug Hoffman, though I know one or two of my cow-orkers and friends check it out on occasion too.
Keep posting recipes, Pat. Hey, everyone, there’s trifle at Pat’s place!
Suisan beat me to it – less traffic than me?
thanks for helping spread the word, walnut!
Do I recommend the sites to you or to Blue Gal? Or just put them on my own site? Your rules aren’t very precise – Californians, tcha. How do I know about someone else’s traffic? Would it be a faux pas to recommend a blog only to find that person is insulted that I think they have less traffic than me? Or, Horror Of Horrors – I’m wrong and they actually DO have more traffic than I do and I’m just drowning in my own egomaniacal swill again!? This is just a minefield!
Forget commenting, if you’re talking about traffic I get about six people a day. If folks are bored in Denmark and start searching for autocunnilingus, then that number jumps to about 15.
How would I know what someone else’s blog traffic is anyway? But. uh, less than six? I’m thinking even I wouldn’t go there.
Jeez Louise, this isn’t supposed to be so difficult.
If you think you’re wading in the shallow end of the pool, just pick other folks who are in there with you. Don’t worry about the less traffic bit. The idea, however, is to give exposure to folks (like yourselves) who write enjoyable blogs who aren’t “first-stringers.”
I was going to ask the same question about how to tell someone gets less traffic than I do! But I guess we “know who we are,” LOL!
I think I’ll just look for folks who get fewer comments than me. This isn’t the best metric, since some blogs get tons of traffic and few comments (YesButNoButYes, for example), but it’s the best I can do.