With all the talk going on that google now don't likes reciprocal linking, which in fact are pretty ridiculous, how will this affect the bloggers and their blog rolls. I can say that many of my friends on our blog roll(s) were added after I was added to their blog roll. This structure of building links, or not building links (in the way of receiving bunch of links pointed back at your site but in fact ways of alternate sources of your own content) to ones site should now be punished since this is a reciprocal linking?
It is pretty ridiculous. Luckily, I never participated in a blog roll. It used to be a prime option to set up paid text links under the radar so to speak, but now G wants to come down hard since they aren't getting a piece of the action. It's a damn shame that they've gone from: "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." to what they are today. Have your rankings specifically been effected?
Bloggers have been using blogrolls long before Google started these Gestapo tactics. I'm sure they won't quit now either.
I think that everyone is just making assumptions based on nothing more than opinion!! We just need to relax and see what happens and learn from that! As far as reciprical linking in Googles eyes: I must get 50 emails a day and I love the new Spam mail going out that says that they love my site so they would like to trade links!! Those types of link farms will be the recipricals that they target I'll bet and they should!! Us Lifers work real hard to gain rank and position and some 5.00 program to just trade trillions of links is just Crap!! Blogrolls are people managed and I highly doubt that they would be targeted, plus WordPress is highly respected in Googles eyes and I think they will be fine as long as fresh content gets put in your blog regularly!! Those are my opinions anyways!!
That, or, you know, they don't want people to hijack their service and bring down its overall quality. Far fetched, I know...
A blogroll is referred to on a WordPress blog and it is no more than a link section intended for reciprical networking.
If this is true then "Alex" should be banned soon Since his link is on EVERY SINGLE COPY of wordpress out the gate
As part of some plan I had a few months ago I went through the blog rolls of a vast number of blogs in my niche. The average person had 20 to 50 links, and with the long rolls, there was always two or three dead ends - either expired or squatted domains, deleted Blogspot blogs, or just never updated for two years sites. I keep my list down to less than 10, and only add sites I really do like and view regularly, yet I feature, unsolicited, in a lot, lot more blogrolls.
I have blogrolls with 100 links and my sites are still a pr5 or better I would also think it all depends on how strong your site is
hoping so for strong site, but what if for younger with less PR site? and not intended for any violation, is it unfair?