Comments on: Preserve the chain - how to make blogtag more valuable http://www.christopherspenn.com/2007/03/28/preserve-the-chain-how-to-make-blogtag-more-valuable/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:44:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Untwisted Vortex - Living in a Different Land » Blog Drive-Bys for 2007-04-02 http://www.christopherspenn.com/2007/03/28/preserve-the-chain-how-to-make-blogtag-more-valuable/#comment-191 Untwisted Vortex - Living in a Different Land » Blog Drive-Bys for 2007-04-02 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:02:43 +0000 http://www.christopherspenn.com/2007/03/28/preserve-the-chain-how-to-make-blogtag-more-valuable/#comment-191 [...] at Insights Into Christopher S. Penn wrote about an interesting way to tag other [...] [...] at Insights Into Christopher S. Penn wrote about an interesting way to tag other [...]

]]> By: Jay Moonah http://www.christopherspenn.com/2007/03/28/preserve-the-chain-how-to-make-blogtag-more-valuable/#comment-175 Jay Moonah Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:25:58 +0000 http://www.christopherspenn.com/2007/03/28/preserve-the-chain-how-to-make-blogtag-more-valuable/#comment-175 Hey Chris, I was thinking about this when I saw you had posted all the links back and asked everyone else to include all the previous bloggers links as well. I kind of had mixed feelings about this idea. I think linking back to the original entry _only_ might actually be the better thing to do. Aside from generating lots of extra inbound links (which I do understand the value of, to an extent), doesn't having having the complete list of previous bloggers in one entry actually _discourage_ visiting the previous entries? For instance, I made a point of looking at Aidan's entry where I found he didn't originate the game, his mom actually did, and she did based a previous meme that someone had tagged her for. If I had just read the names rather than going back I wouldn't have seen this. I also saw the other people that those folks had tagged, and same thing when I linked backward and forward from the others who have been posting their songs. That's part of the fun as well. Personally I think moving backward and forward through the chain via the links one level up and down is actually a lot more interesting, rather than seeing one entry that has links back to a dozen others. My two-cents. Hey Chris,

I was thinking about this when I saw you had posted all the links back and asked everyone else to include all the previous bloggers links as well. I kind of had mixed feelings about this idea. I think linking back to the original entry _only_ might actually be the better thing to do. Aside from generating lots of extra inbound links (which I do understand the value of, to an extent), doesn’t having having the complete list of previous bloggers in one entry actually _discourage_ visiting the previous entries?

For instance, I made a point of looking at Aidan’s entry where I found he didn’t originate the game, his mom actually did, and she did based a previous meme that someone had tagged her for. If I had just read the names rather than going back I wouldn’t have seen this. I also saw the other people that those folks had tagged, and same thing when I linked backward and forward from the others who have been posting their songs. That’s part of the fun as well.

Personally I think moving backward and forward through the chain via the links one level up and down is actually a lot more interesting, rather than seeing one entry that has links back to a dozen others. My two-cents.

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