Cross-links — A question for Dagblog

… I’ll link to you and you’ll link to me. That’s one way to describe
the deal among Czech blogs. Dagblog has no links to sister, brother or other
blogs. It’s a simple question. Should Dagblog link to the other major Czech blogs? Recently
Yuhů’s blog linked to me.
From there it reached the Sova v síti blog and
the response was swift. My traffic meter swung to what, for me, were dizzying heights.

Yuhů added Dagblog to the web blogs in his navigation. Should Dagblog have a section with links to other blogs?
Should it link to their posts? It probably should. It has to! But only if the post covers something
relevant to Dagblog’s subject matter and if I can add more than an echo in the endless circle of blogs repeating one another.
Dagblog tries to bring its own perspective, even when it looks like it’s just echoing someone else. The answer
is to write entirely original material. Anyone can repeat what others say. There is a catch, of course.
If Sova v síti or someone like it doesn’t link to Dagblog, nobody will find out about that material.

All but the most prominent Czech blogs depend on the readers of blogs that link to them. Those readers
move from one to another by following links. That’ll continue until each blog finds a steady readership.
Until then, we all depend on our “big brothers” to send some of their readers our way.