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Blogroll Temporarily Closed to New Members

Sun, 2005-06-12 22:06 — Nick Lewis

I’m sorry to announce that the PBA is temporarily halting admission its blogroll. There is talk in the search engine optimization community of some new anti-spam filters that directly effect our little operation.

Apparently, any sudden increase in the number of links to any given URL has resulted in temporary damage to a page’s google traffic. However, the reports I’ve picked up have been vague, and I am not fully convinced that the filters exist, or effect us. Nevertheless, the reason we have this blogroll is to raise the rank of progressive viewpoints and ideas in search results (you didn’t actually think the blogroll itself was supposed to drive traffic, did you? :-P ), so I feel that the temporary closing it is in everyone’s best interest.

In the meantime, I’ve been developing a del.icio.us blogrolling application to solve some complaints of various members, and enhance the collective benefit of our blogroll. Please share any complaints, ideas, or wishes that you might have in this post’s comment box. I actually prefer any criticisms of how things are ‘run’ to be public.

If you have any suggestions, or ideas, don’t be afraid to think big. The collective brain power of this alliance is a powerful resource; it would be a tragedy if we leave it untapped.

Have wish? Consider me a lame genie that can only grant wishes in PHP.

-El Presidente

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Fri, 2006-06-30 03:14 — Arancaytar

Is this current?

The last comment made me think this was a new post, but checking the date more closely it appears to be a year old. The blogroll is currently displayed, so it looks like it's not actually closed (unless it's only closed to new admissions)?

Also asking because the blogroll has gone very long without an update (my address changed...), and a lot of people are apparently asking to be put on it.

With this site just having reopened, this might be a good time to look at ways to continue/improve on the blog roll concept. Is BlogRolling still the best supplier available? Would it perhaps be better to split the blogroll up to cut down on the length?

Mon, 2005-06-13 00:22 — The Continental Op

deli.cio.us

I like the idea of using deli.cio.us for the PBA blogroll. The tagging function would be a simpler way to accomplish what we once tried to do with "clusters". Let me know if you need a hand with that.
Sun, 2006-06-25 06:37 — No Blood for Hubris

Blogroll

Sorry to hear the blogroll's closed. Have been trying to get on it for, apparently, 35 weeks. C'est la vie. No Blood for Hubris

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