We sometimes get e-mail from people asking us to link to their blogs. We actually very rarely add new blogs to the blogroll, which is already pretty long; perhaps this is a mistake, but that’s our tentative approach to this. However, we’re always happy to consider linking to interesting posts on other people’s blogs. Two brief reminders about what tends to make this process easier for us (reminders to which I’ll link from a permanent “Linking policy” link that I’ll be adding to the front page):
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Pitch the post, not the blog. If you have a post that you think we and our readers will find especially interesting, let us know about that — such custom-selected posts are generally more tempting than just a suggestion to read whatever happens to be on the front page of some blog.
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Include both (a) the text of the post and (b) the URL of that particular post. When we’re working from home, often on slow connections, this makes it much easier for us to read the post — and thus much more likely that we will read it and consider linking to it.
I suspect that many other bloggers have similar preferences to these.
Sorry to be so demanding, but the volume of e-mail that we get has ended up requiring this.
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