Blogroll re-shuffle

It's hard to surf the net without me thinking about the impending Google Page Rank update. Perhaps I'm getting a little obsessed with it but it never hurt to be prepared. The update will be like a flood where there is destruction but everything re-grows and flourishes more than before. I always say that necessity causes change and it is causing me to re-shuffle my blogroll and the 'my favourite sites' list.

As a I pointed out on Friday, this site has far to many out going links in its sidebar. It's time pick a select few and start over.

Why do I need less links there?

- There are too many links for readers to manage; it has become the custom to 'randomly click' on the list somewhere.
- It looks bad. Big lists like that are not pretty for readers or the Google spiders.
- Each outbound link 'leaks' a little Page Rank. Many of those sites are no longer updated and I don't want to be giving them better Page Rank (or traffic) when they are dead sites.
- It was a mistake to link out to some of them in the first place. Some are not at all relevant to readers of this blog. I didn't understand that concept months back when I offered/accepted a link exchange.
- Some have changed topic/drifted away from being about blogging and making money online.
- Too many links makes this page slow to load.
- The long list causes the sidebar to extend beyond the bottom of my blog posts! This could be solved by me increasing the number of posts per page but this means less AdSence earnings and doesn't help with the page loading time.
- Each outgoing link decreases the value of other outgoing links because it fragments traffic. On one level this means I am diverting traffic away from sites I want readers to visit. On the money level having more outgoing sidebar links decreases the price I can sell Text link ads for.
- Google likes sites with less outgoing sidebar links. The Sitening SEO tool ranks my site lower because of all the outgoing links.

If your site has been removed from my lists it is for one or more of those reasons. It is not because I don't like your site but because I feel you site won't benefit the readers of this blog as much as the others.

Below are all the sites I am removing. All of the sites below no longer have any obligation to link to me in their sidebar. (You can keep me there if you wish!) but there is no pressure or strings attached. I have stated the specific reason for removal next to some of the sites. Hopefully by linking out in this post they will be alerted to my actions and they can unlink to me.

bestest blog of all time

Techchee


online money tips

make money online

Current world news has moved to a new address, I haven’t been getting traffic from there for over 2 months and is off topic to this blog.

All blog submit gives an error 404

Jerrykobylt

internetbazaar hasn't posted for nearly 2 months

world of a mysterious life Isn't relevant enough to this site

free online games isn't relevant to this site

Money Making Machine hasn't posted since February

boys from the past isn't relevant enough to this site

WritingUP will not load

Canimakebigmoneyonline I had linked out to here twice in the same blogroll! whoops! I have kept the other link.

quick register

Highly recommended business oppourtinities drifted away from being relevant to this blog.

web money blog

earn online money

cool photos not relevant to this blog

Disenchanted

resourcelinks.net

the composed gentlemen not very relevant to this blog

Free ads for bloggers has not posted for 10 days

Quest to make money on the internet had not posted for over 2 months

My Quest to earn had not posted for over 10 days

Our blog review.

I have now removed those sites. The 'My Favourite sites' list is still too long but this will do for now.