Comments on: I Hate Link Trains

By: Rene Kriest@ProBloggerWorld.de

Rene Kriest@ProBloggerWorld.de — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:44:31 +0000

Pretty cool wrath.

I just don’t get why there is so much fuzz, envy, emotion and arguing in a world of freedom about a link?

Does John really do any harm? Is it correct to give out the Apple iPhone only to AT/T customers? And why is the iPod so damn expensice? Why do we have to die?

I think I’ll stop here because I need to do some quality work for my blog instead of wasting time about anyone’s decision to link/not link, do-follow/no-follow etc.

Regards,

Ren

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By: Viralink - Bite my shiny metal ass!!

Viralink - Bite my shiny metal ass!! — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:03:19 +0000

[...] still amazed at how many people jump on board these link trains. I’m sick to death about posting about them but so many Blogging Tips readers are taking part [...]

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 02:04:34 +0000

very good comment dave. the quicker the blogosphere gets away from these poor promotion techniques the better

By: Dave Starr --- Mr. GPS

Dave Starr --- Mr. GPS — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:45:17 +0000

Funny that you mention John and Pyramid schemes in the same paragraph, Kevin. I like John and I read him every day but I also watch to see what he is doing to earn those bucks. And the truth is, he’s continually pyramiding. The ‘Net is populated with a lot of people who either have very little common sense or else suspend theier brain when surfing.

I participated in John’s “revie me” campaign just to see what would hapen. Got perhaps 100 visitors over a couple days … and of course no clicks, because John’s readers pride themselves on never clicking.

I have given up on several new blogs I was going to become a regular on because the blogger started cluttering their space with thes useless “trains”

TANSTAAFL … for those who don’t know the acronym,Google it. “trains”, pyramid schemes, even those idiotic Nigerian bank scams make hundreds ot thousands a year from otherwise intelligent people who just can’t seem to understand that trying to something for nothing normally yields … nothing.

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By: Analyst

Analyst — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:44:50 +0000

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By: Tara

Tara — Tue, 01 May 2007 08:41:24 +0000

I removed the no follow to get more commentors, I admit it. Why, because a blog is not very interesting if its only the blog writers opinion and no discussion and if if helps the commentators too thats great. I also like finding out who is reading my blog so I can check out theirs. If a comment seems to much like spam you can always delete it.

Regarding the Technorati link train, I didn’t partake in it as I wasn’t prepared to favourite sites that I perhaps hadn’t even visited or didn’t like. Anyway thats just my 2 pence worth.

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Links Round up - May 1st 2007 — Tue, 01 May 2007 08:14:48 +0000

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By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 05:49:39 +0000

well i removed the no follow tag from here ages ago. its not something im concerned about but to many commentators it is. So it will keep tham happy haha

the thing that i dont like about the no follow campaign is that people were putting more effort into getting links to their blog than actually promoting the idea of the no follow tag.

these things will give you a short burst of traffic for about a day if your lucky. i hope it was worth alienating their readers

also – just to say, your blog has a fantastic design. very nice

By: Domestic Geek

Domestic Geek — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 05:10:51 +0000

I am so glad I am not the only one that hates all this stuff. It’s disturbingly reminiscent of high school popularity games.

A well-meaning friend added me to that Do Follow thing going around and I really wished she hadn’t. I use a CMS that doesn’t put a no follow in my comments in the first place. I’ll be glad when that whole movement dies.

I also refuse to participate in link exchanges. If people find me, great. If not, I won’t lose sleep over it. I personally don’t write for “the masses.”

By: Denise

Denise — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:44:35 +0000

I heartily agree, and thank you for wonderfully honest post!

By: Chris Merriman

Chris Merriman — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:55:45 +0000

I came across this post via the pingback on John’s batch 57 ;>
Different system, I obviously understand, but I’d not have found you if I hadn’t checked his batch for my link.
Not trying to say your argument is incorrect, just attempting to add some info to it.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:00:15 +0000

i dont think im on any kind of link train now haha. i linked to two articles in the post but i also link to posts/articles which i am referring to A link train is when i would post a list of links etc

maybe i should clarify. im discouraging bloggers to post lists of links to other websites in the hope of getting a link back.

thing is, i have and always will link to sites and articles which i like. However, i see no benefit to the reader if i post a link showing all the sites that linked to me.

By: Joshua Dorkin

Joshua Dorkin — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:53:06 +0000

You hate it, but you are now a part of it . . . a bit ironic? I’m not ripping on you . . . just looking at what’s happening. I hear you on the link trains, though. Instead of gimmicks, a blog’s success will be based on the quality of its posts. I went through many of the sites on the d-list and saw no benefit to getting involved. There is no connection between my sites and theirs.

In the end, it is quality of content that counts . . . the gimmicks can only get you so far.