Dead Sidebar Blogs
One of the things that I love about visiting new blogs is finding more blogs from their sidebars. It's like finding a new unexplored frontier with each new blog.
Conversely, I find it really annoying when sidebar blogs are dead or the link doesn't work. I just did a sidebar cleanse and took out blogs that appear to have passed on. I figure if someone hasn't posted in three or four months, the blog is dead. Also, I deleted blogs where the writer said that they were closing down their blogs. Some of them may come back, but I'll deal with that if it happens.
It's so sad when you get used to a blog and look forward to visiting them and hearing what they're up to, then all of a sudden they're gone. I know that people have all sorts of things to deal with and it makes sense to shut down their blog for a while, but I only have so much space on my sidebar. Also links appear to go dead after six months for Technorati purposes, so it's actually better to re-link other bloggers after a while, so the link is counted.
I just added a new section called Shiny New Sidebar Blogs and I'll be adding new ones every month or so as I test out new blogs. They may get incorporated into my other categories or not. We'll see. Something new to try.
What about you? What's your policy on dead blogs?
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dead blogs?..hmm...
well, i sometime fear my blog will become a dead blog that no one will visit..well cuz i don't write several times a week and i just think my blog is not as interesting as some folks out there...
hmmm...
and the ones i follow have never fallen off the radar so i guess i don't really have a policy on dead blogs..
well have a nice one!
:)
I used to have a separate blogroll section for dead/dormant blogs. I accidentally deleted it once, but it might come back.
I love discovering new blogs, and others' sidebars are my main way of finding them.
nina - I think we treat our blogs like we do our homes. My blog feels like an extension of my living room and kitchen. : )
aviana - Your blog is very interesting! That's why I keep going back! ; )
dmarks - The dead/dormant blog section is a pretty good idea when there are a lot of interesting archives.
rachel - I have noticed that some of the really successful blogs have been around for five, six years and even more. I was suprised that people were blogging that far back!
punditmom - Technorati can be so annoying! Ten of my links expired yesterday. :(
suldog - That's a good system.
Three blogs I really enjoyed stopped posting within the last month. Two got tired of it and the third got a stalker so she shut it down. :( I always worry about people when they just abruptly stop posting. I wonder are they dead, sick, missing? Yesterday though, I wandered by one of my favorite blogs from last year and discovered that the guy who'd abandoned his blog back in November has been posting again.
Death to dead blogs, I say.
I regularly check my roll so no one has to go through my frustration.
mocha - Thanks for stopping by! That would make it easier if you don't have all the links to begin with. Then there is no messy de-linking...
moody gemini - Thanks for making things easier for us! ; )