{"id":984,"date":"2007-09-07T08:13:22","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T13:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/09\/07\/linky-love-train-a-bloggy-chain-letter\/"},"modified":"2007-09-07T08:13:22","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T13:13:22","slug":"linky-love-train-a-bloggy-chain-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/09\/07\/linky-love-train-a-bloggy-chain-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Linky love train – a bloggy chain letter"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know I’m not supposed to care about stats and Technorati ranking and Google Page Rank and all that stuff. Really, my entire blogging experience might be quantifiably better if I could just stay away from that stuff. But for someone who had crushing self-esteem problems in her early teenage years, those silly links and stats are empirical proof that you like me, you really like me.<\/p>\n

Silly, isn’t it? I know, I know.<\/p>\n

So, when I moved blog over here and watched my Technorati rank crash into the basement, it was a humbling experience. I know you still like me, and frankly, now that I’m hardly getting any Google traffic at all, I know each person who has visited recently has done so intentionally, not just in passing looking for more information about “pineapple and IVF<\/a>” or the “ikea dog weiner<\/a>” incident.<\/p>\n

Then I remembered something I’d seen over at some of the marketing and SEO blogs I read as part of my day job, the link train. It’s simple, really. We just make a list of blogs who would like to share some linky love, and then propogate it, letting anybody who wants to play along join in. So here’s how it works:<\/p>\n

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  1. Cut and paste from this point on.<\/li>\n
  2. If you want to play along and have your blog listed, just leave a comment with your URL and your blog title.<\/li>\n
  3. I’ll add everybody’s links to a master list and post it here.<\/li>\n
  4. You copy the entire list, including instructions, onto your blog. Invite your readers to comment and add their blog to the list.<\/li>\n
  5. Lather. Rinse. Propogate.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What do you think? Want to play along?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I know I’m not supposed to care about stats and Technorati ranking and Google Page Rank and all that stuff. Really, my entire blogging experience might be quantifiably better if I could just stay away from that stuff. But for someone who had crushing self-esteem problems in her early teenage years, those silly links and … Continue reading “Linky love train – a bloggy chain letter”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}