Linkroll
Linkroll is a free service that allows you to draw links back to your blog. If you’re business is blogging, Linkroll is a great way to direct traffic back to your blog site.
It also allows you to check out other peoples’ blogs, save the blogs you like and create your own personalized page for easy access to your favorites. Linkroll offers RSS feeds so that you can keep up to date with what others are blogging.
A new feature on Linkroll allows any user to create their own podcasts. These podcasts use mp3 format and are very user friendly. You can do your own podcast, or you can do a podcast as a group on a certain topic of interest to everyone.
One thing that is different about Linkroll is that all information is public. This means that no part of your profile is kept private. Everything is out in the open; the point of Linkroll is sharing info.
To give you an idea of what linkrollers are checking out, here are the top five categories: software, internet, business, online and free. News isn’t far behind, nor are home, health and tools. As you go down the list of categories, you’ll see all kinds of other random stuff, so Linkroll is not just restricted to these categories. It just gives you an idea of the most popular.
Linkroll is loosely based on the design of del.icio.us. You can put the Linkroll bookmarklet on your web browser and use an RSS feed to bring the latest links straight to your desktop.
A quick spin through the most popular links of the day and you find an article on getting rid of belly fat, how to get loans for business trips, the vacation diary of somebody who went to Mexico, a news story about inner city schools, a tutorial on how to use shopping cart software, a site on air compressors and lots more. Linkroll has a wide variety of links, pretty much anything you’d find in the blogosphere, you can find at Linkroll.
The giant list on the right side of Linkroll’s front page makes searching categories easy. The most popular are listed at the top, and as you scroll down they get more and more obscure. If that doesn’t satisfy you, you can enter terms into the search bar. Linkroll uses tags in the same way that del.icio.us and other social bookmarking sites do, allowing users to tag their own links and search for others using tags.
Linkroll is a great way to get your blog noticed by like minded bloggers.
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