Sharpe's Opinion

Google Blogsearch Incoming Links Useless

Devil’s Kitchen explains why my Incoming Links box has been near enough useless for the majority of the time I’ve been writing this blog – Google’s ‘Blogsearch’ tool is broken and sends alerts to all sites linked from the entire page of a blog post, rather than only from the main content of the post itself. Hence I get alerted of an incoming link every time certain bloggers put up a new post, because Sharpe’s Opinion is in their blogroll. Admittedly, this isn’t such an issue for me because few people actually link here, but I can see how it would drastically affect some of the more widely read blogs out there. Not because of ego, but because the blogosphere is one large conversation, and it helps to know when someone is responding to or following on from one of your posts.

What’s more, since quite a large portion of the value I try to bring to this blog is derived from linking to other sites, it’s reasonably important to me that other sites know that I’ve linked to them. On the other hand, I don’t have a static blogroll any more, so at least I’m not spamming anyone with incoming links…