Elbows Music Blog Community

How do you go about getting people to add you to their blogroll? Do you just email them and ask? Ive just got the blogs that i like to read on mine at the moment with none linking back to me

personally, I would just make a blog-aggregator-roll

@brandon - hit add to soon..... do you know of any good ones, nice graphics? versus just text?

lol...

I'd love a badge of sorts that you load in the feeds you want to show and it updates itself. Anyone got anything?

@bryon - check out Drumming On Tabletops - http://drummingontabletops.blogspot.com/ - (great site name, btw)... They've got that little "Blogs We Read" section. Blogger has the gadget to do that, just add the blog list and it will do that. I don't like how it's just text/links. I will it looked more like Hypes or Elbows bagde I've got up on my site, more of a graphic (like some of the twitter badges I've seen).

Tsuru, what about Sandy's site? http://www.slowcoustic.com/   ---> look at his headlines section and then the badge underneath that says "Slowcoustic Recommends." Have always been jealous of that one - looks so clean on his site too

@Lee - thanks. That widget is simply google reader - you can customize it with colour and number of posts, size, etc. I like it because you can tell folks about a single post that you may like from a blog that might not be on your "official" blogroll.

http://welistenforyou.blogspot.com/

if you scroll down a bit, you'll see "they listen too" -- pretty darn good integration of a "blogroll" if you ask me!

I like the image blogroll as well, The Waiting Room does a good job of it too: http://www.twrhq.com/

I would love to have a flash based blogroll - just because I am a nerd. Might be a bit distracting, won't show on iPhones or most mobile versions of sites...but might be an option...

@afflictedwolf: the ipod comparison is an awesome compliment :-D

I've put a lot of work into the site. The shuffle feature just a really simple random redirect -- thank you Wordpress plugins (I gotta say, Wordpress has been a pleasure to work with - so customizable!). It's not easy developing a website that is "different" from the hundreds of music blogs out there, but I feel as if the visual simplicity of my site is pretty darn good (shameless?).

That said, this whole running a website (that actually gets traffic) is never-ending. That's why having contributors is so key -- allows time to focus on the website design. I have so many ideas that I have lined up for integration -- I just don't have enough hours in the day (especially while the East coast is having such nice weather!)

Pretty sure all of you can relate.

I hear ya... been sole author for a long time, but actually, finally, opening it up a little to a few folks from the tsururadio community.

I've got the blog aggregators listed :-D

However, I've noticed that when one of my friends put me in their blogspot blogroll, it ended up producing a good 100+ "external links" to my site, per Google Webmaster Tools. And that, if I'm not mistaken, counts toward your pagerank for searches.