Happy New Year: I Zapped Your Link!

You can tell who greeted the New Year in last night and who did not. Some blogs are silent today as bloggers recover from a night of revelry. Others had the presence of mind to “drip” their article by writing it while their sobriety was still with them.

As for me, I hit the pillow around 10:30 on New Year’s Eve and woke up as the firework’s were being set off in my neighborhood. I’ve been online since 7:30 a.m. updating the main HTML pages for this site, checking to make sure that all nine blogs I manage have flipped over for 2008, and updating links.

Not bad for a guy who will reach the Big 5-Oh in 2008, eh?

Speaking of links, I may have zapped your link today. Back in December 2006, I worked feverishly to exchange links with lots of folks with the arrangement that some would be permanent while others would expire at the stroke of midnight on December 31, 2007. Not to waste a moment, I logged on this morning and tossed a bunch of links and then checked the remaining links to this blog to see if “reciprocity” was still in effect.

What I learned today was ugly.

Most of my writing friends are still blogging away and our linking agreements are in place. I understand that Georganna Hancock will be moving links to a special page in the near future (I may do the same here) while two other writing blogs have since gone dark.

The ugly part was all of the links I made with Digital Point (DP) members — only two of what was probably two dozen links still remained. So, if you think your link is still good here you better check your site as I could not find any sign that The Article Writer is still receiving link juice from you.

Regardless, my linking strategies have changed since my DP link-a-thon. Effective immediately, I will only allow other writers to have a link on this site under Reciprocity, but I am grandfathering in a few other links as the benefit to both parties outweighs everything else.

If you are a writer with a blog and are interested in exchanging links with me, then please drop me a note and we’ll take it from there. For everyone else, I have five other blogs where linking is allowed, therefore we might be able to work something out elsewhere. Again, feel free to contact me.

That’s enough work for today. I’m taking advantage of the legal holiday and my advanced age to get some rest.

Have a Happy and Productive 2008!