Alan Gutierrez

Out and about in New Orleans today. At the gallery openings, I’m encouraging a local artist Adam Farrington to blog. His most recent foray on the web was the Dirt Drive.

He wondered if he blogs, who will read it. I tell him I’ll read it, his wife will read it, our friend Becky, probably the other gallery owners. It seemed to be reason enough.

Because blogging is local. A-Listers bore me. Even the ones I like are too busy to spend time on me. They are too busy to spend time on anyone.

The A-Listers excite the broadcasters because they broadcast, but if I want broadcasting, I know where to find it. This is a conversational medium. The A-Listers will be lost in the cacopohny. There dominions will shrink.

Celebrity is a commodity, just like any other, online or off.

Free Your Blogrolls and Your Backlinks Will Follow – SEO Consultant Esoos Bobnar

True, they earned it, and there’s something to be said for making your site a hub linking out to the top sites in your industry. However, I’m proposing that we diversify our blogrolls a bit. I’ve actually begun to do so myselfIf you’re a fellow C-lister, and you’ve got a blog that’s of good quality, relevant to the field of Internet Marketing, and would be a good match for my readers, let me know, and I’ll consider blogrolling you. It’s got to be good and relevant, though, and posted to at least a few times a week.

Esoos is right on the money. I get links because I read other people’s blogs and because I comment in other people’s blogs. My blogroll represents the handful of bloggers that I read daily, and they are a select few.

I read Esoos because I need to learn something about search engines. I find that it’s better to learn something about an A-List topic from a pedestrian blogger. You’re comments are heeded, and you’re not dealing with someone who’s suffering from authority.

In any case, I’m adding Esoos Bobnar to my blogroll. He’s readable and quotable. I’m not expecting him to do the same, mind you, since I do not match his rediculous criteria.

Both good and relevant? There is no pleasing some people.