E Mailing A Blogger

There are several good links to follow through a link below, all about sending email to bloggers, or a blog trying to get something linked. There's a quick study one blogger did and some good advice.

There are good and bad ways to do it, but it's still as much art, as science - perhaps more luck of the draw, than anything else. Some days I wish I didn't get any email with link suggestions. Some days I go looking for them. News syscles can play a part. I something is exploding and I'm into it, I'm less likely to jump to some other topic.

Fact is, what pisses me off most is my own sense of guilt for not linking things. But you get over that after sending out requests and not hearing back, or getting linked. LOL I send out a lot less requests than I once did and do try to fit the request to the blog, person, or blogs (people.)

But almost invariably what gets picked up most, isn't what I may send out. Timing and topic being everything, perhaps.

Just came across this while reading at Gates Of Vienna.

Comments

[*flo*]

I for one am known to send Dan from RWV, email links, I donot take any offense, should the story not get posted or if there is not any reply from Dan. The blogging service which Dan from RWV does provide, I find exceptional, many topics being educational...how he does daily reporting and having a full time job, this alone amazes me! Thanks Dan for being a consist blogger.

[Harvey]

I have to agree - it's pretty much all luck. Right Wing News suggests that any given request for a link has about a 10% shot, and he's probably right. After that, it boils down to the blogger's mood, whether he's currently cooking up other posts, and other factors you can't predict with any accuracy.

[Jane]

I've sent Dan things from time to time that deal with topics he's posted on recently or in the past. He always posts about it even though he and I have never exchanged an email. Weird, huh? It's just things like what happened in one case or another or side stories I think he'd like to know and tell his readers about. I'm just glad he's found it helpful every so often.