Getting on the blogrolls of other bloggers can improve your search engine ranking and increase direct traffic. Both people and search engine “spiders” see links on blogrolls as important recommendations for the blogs they list. Here are some tips for getting your blog on more blogrolls…

1. Posting original content on your blog with new ideas, hard-to-find information, or useful tips makes other bloggers more likely to add it to their blogrolls. On the other hand, this is of little use if the blog isn’t promoted sufficiently enough for many people to know it exists.

2. Leaving positive, interesting comments on relevant blogs with a link to your own weblog (if this is allowed) might attract the other blogger’s attention to it. The chance for this to work effectively is increased if you regularly post high-quality comments in this manner, rather than just once.

3. If another blogger posts an interesting entry on a subject related to your blog, consider linking to the entry from your own blog and encouraging readers to have a look. Post a comment on the other blog responding to the entry and mentioning that you linked to it. Other bloggers will likely appreciate this, possibly getting you on their blogrolls.

4. Consider offering helpful tips to a blogger who asks for assistance with a technical problem or other issue, and mention that you also have a blog. You may gain a regular visitor or even a link on his or her blogroll, but don’t expect this sort of benefit as a certainty.

5. Make sure the name of your weblog fits well on blogrolls (preferably not too long or short) and is attractive to click on. In general, it is also helpful if the blog title either provokes curiosity and/or refers to the topic of content it offers.

6. A few blogs actually provide their own tips or instructions for getting on their blogrolls. Have a look around blogs on related subjects and see if you can find any directions of this type. Some are specific, others only specify what sort of blogs they consider for their blogrolls.

Even after getting on one or more blogrolls, keep in mind that the links can always be removed. If your blog is not updated for weeks, becomes too promotional, or stops covering the subject other bloggers are interested in, blogroll links to it might be replaced with other blogs.

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