Bloggers: Paying it Forward
*Updated* - Thanks to DouglasKarr.com for pointing out the purpose of this list. I also want to point out that I am doing my best to try and create a community on my site and that this was the first and foremost reason I participated with this list.
Paying it Forward - Blog StyleZ - Click Here for the Complete History - Thanks goes to Dosh-Dosh for hooking this up! To participate, the exact steps you need to follow in order to join the meme are:
- Create a new post on your blog.
- Copy and Paste the entire list of blog links below
- Add any blogs that you want to include near the top of the list. (This isn’t compulsory, so you can either add as many blogs as you want or none at all.)
- Include the blog where you first got the list from, on the list in your post.
- Do not include your own blog links on the list in your post.
- Make sure that all links point to each blog’s homepage.
- Publish the Post.
Do note that you can join the meme even if your blog isn’t listed below. Just copy and paste any or both of the lists below, add Dosh Dosh and any other blogs you want to share on the list and publish it as a post in your blog.
My Additions
Agloco 101
Daytime Deals
Eat Drink & Be Merry
Pink Deals
The PokerLetter Life
Dosh-Dosh
Kumiko Suzuki
Previous Additions
Connected Internet
Blog-Op
Mike’s Money Making Mission
Time to Budget
Can I Make Big Money Online
Blogtrepreneur
Flee the Cube
Blogging Secret
Blogging to Fame
Million Dollar Experiment heads Down Under
Quest to make money on the internet
Kumiko’s Cash Quest
Calico Monkey
Internet Bazaar
Original Z List
Shotgun Marketing Blog
BrandSizzle
bizsolutionsplus
Customers Rock!
Being Peter Kim
Pow! Right Between The Eyes!
Billions With Zero Knowledge
Working at Home on the Internet
MapleLeaf 2.0
Two Hat Marketing
darrenbarefoot.com
The Emerging Brand
The Branding Blog
CrapHammer
Drew’s Marketing Minute
Golden Practices
Viaspire
Tell Ten Friends
Flooring the Consumer
Kinetic Ideas
Unconventional Thinking
Buzzoodle
NewsPaperGrl
The Copywriting Maven
Hee-Haw Marketing
Scott Burkett’s Pothole on the Infobahn
Multi-Cult Classics
Logic + Emotion
Branding & Marketing
Popcorn n Roses
On Influence & Automation
Bullshitobserver
Servant of Chaos
converstations
eSoup
Presentation Zen
Dmitry Linkov
aialone
John Wagner
Nick Rice
CKs Blog
Design Sojourn
Frozen Puck
The Sartorialist
Small Surfaces
Africa Unchained
Perspective
gDiapers
Marketing Nirvana
Bob Sutton
¡Hola! Oi! Hi!
Shut Up and Drink the Kool-Aid!
Women, Art, Life: Weaving It All Together
Community Guy
Social Media on the fly
StumbleUpon | Digg | Del.icio.us | Dzone | Newsvine | Spurl | Reddit | Yahoo! MyWeb
It’s important to state that the primary reason for the Z-List was not to increase Technorati ranking, it was to promote blogs that were not well known with other bloggers. By putting the list on your site, it attracts those other bloggers to your site.
Many folks, including Technorati, have criticized the Z-list as ‘gaming’ the ranking… please don’t perpetuate that image.
Thanks for the mention! I’ll be back to check out your site - it looks a blog I’m interested in.
Respectfully,
Doug
We may not want to perpetuate that image, but that was the original intention as I understood it.
This Z-List was an interesting exercise because almost none of the links (and there were probably 50) to my blog got picked up by Technorati.
Technorati’s system for ranking blogs doesn’t really work.
Lesson: A broken system can’t really be “gamed”.
Personally, I think the Z-list was first meant to be a philanthropic effort to help people gain exposure for their blogs, but soon became a tool for people to increase their rankings at the same time. I still believe in the good of the idea and think that if it’s done in moderation, it wouldn’t be considered “gaming” the system as much. Just fyi, I’ve only gotten 3 sites that have linked back to me since I’ve posted the list, so it’s not an instantaneous miracle post that will increase your rankings. I still went to the blogs that linked to me and some of those that didn’t and read their blogs to leave comments. It gave me exposure to their blog and I think that was the biggest reason for the list. Anyways, I’m biased since I posted the list, but that’s my 2cts for today. Hope to hear more opinions on this subject soon.