Oh, and do what Joaquin says - naked chicks. That will bring them in like flies to horsecrap.

Keep up the good work, I agree totally with what your saying about poker blogs

MEP

The best advice I can give is to write something worth linking to. I’m not saying that as a reflection on anything you’ve written but in the more general sense that if you write things people find interesting they’ll want to share what they’ve found with others.

I’m thinking about doing a much more detailed post on this soon so I’ll not try to make my point here. Stay tuned and I’ll explain my personal issue with link requests.

Bill

I started my blog to showcase my (stinky) science fiction writing. In that section of the blogging world, links were freely exchanged because networking is important (meeting editors, publishers, etc.)

Well, the writing thing petered out and I started playing poker. My blog has reflected this change.

As I read other poker blogs I would innocently ask them to exchange links. Needless to say, I didn’t get a good response.

Here I am, not making any money from my blog, nor intending to, simply trying to be neighborly. What I got, in no uncertain terms was “What can you do for me?”

Well, what if I just want to be part of the community and be able to share what I write with others? What’s it hurting you (plural ‘you,’ not anyone specific)to link to my site? At worst, people come to my site through yours, and the return traffic isn’t so heavy. So what?

I doubt I’m getting my point across successfully. Let me finish by saying that I’ll add anyone who asks to my site. Stinky writing, subversive ideas, whatever. Community is a web- the more strands, the stronger it is.