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A little world of Camille

I’ve been pondering what strategies to put into practice for this purpose. I’m pretty bad at socializing, so I guess forum posting is not an option for me…

What about these inputs?

- Social Link Exchange (if I’m lucky to find blog friends…)
- A Twitter account
- Blog Directories
- Webrings
- Post exchange.

The sight of things like “0 comments” on my entries, and a blank Alexa rank button is kind of saddening to me. I know these things need time, and that all bloggers start in the utmost complete silence, but I’ve been here for quite some time, and although I have a few friends linking to me already, I get nearly no feedback on my entries. I wish I would get more of that, and an increase in traffic too. Perhaps my posts are too short to sound appealing? Who knows… I have an issue with long writing sessions anyway…

The re=nofollow attribute seems to get bad looks from advertisers, bloggers and search engines together. I guess that’s what Google thought it to be, in their view: a tool to depreciate some links in respect to others, as a way to fight spam and sites made solely of auto-generated content.

From what I learned, though, Yahoo!’s politics is a little different: they give both normal and ‘nofollow’-ed links the same weight, and it’s up to users and admins together to report spam pages, without any propedeutical penalization. Honestly, I like that politics, because it leaves webmasters with more freedom of action over their links; also, having paid links is normal marketing activity, and it should not be subject of penalization. What about TV ads then? Oh, there would be so much to penalize there at times…

Personally, I’m willing to use the rel=’nofollow’ attribute on non-reciprocal links under my Blogroll, and when I link to websites that contain something I need to cite but that do not interest me particularly. Oh, and in comments of course, unless I’m going to favourite a few of my friends. To me, that seems like a correct politics to use on a blog.