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More and more, bloggers are talking about the A-List circular linking. Winer links to Scoble, then Pirillo links to Winer's post on Scoble, then Rubel links to Pirillo's link to Scoble's link to Winer and finally Winer link's to Rubel's link to Pirillo's link to Scoble's link to Winer. In the end, they all get a bunch of Google juice from linking to each other and everybody is happy or at least four of us are happy. There's no sense complaining, this is simply common sense and good marketing. The problem is that the many of us link to the a-listers like mad in hope that they'll just link to us once in a blue moon and boost our Google karma. They get 10 links for every link they give you, sometimes more. I admit, I link to those four quite often myself and rarely get a link back. Let's break this cycle and here's my plan. I have a pretty good Google PageRank (6). Anybody that links to me, gets a return kiss in double (assuming you're not a SPAMmer, you are a real blogger, you have a reasonable blog entry that I can link to and you didn't NOFOLLOW the link to my Website).
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OK, so I admit, I am one of those s*ckers who link to several A-listers, in the hope of an accidental link back ... or a little bit more: several of their blogs are actually quite interesting to read... ONCE, that is.   But thanks to Bloglines, I get to read the same article 3-4 times in the next day or so, as our A-lister pick up each other's articles, and quite often adding little quote each other ... haha:-)

Anyway, I just added you to my Blogroll, hoping to get that "return kiss in double" :-)

Zoli (www.zoliblog.com)
Cool idea. I hope it catches on. Personally, I really care more about good comments on my posts than I do about links. In some ways I'd rather have links from non-A-list bloggers just because they would bring some less mainstream attention and people who are more likely to comment.

Btw, I found out about this post from Zoli's blog.

Blue, (bluelightning32.blogspot.com)
I wrote an blog entry about this a while back (http://www.thosebastards.com/archives/674/), and it's really the limited voice that has become the A-list that is troubling. And generally, they are the least interesting of the bloggers that make up the blogosphere. So it becomes the elite stay elite, and the talented with new ideas get held back. Additionally, technorati is such crap that the list never changes because of how they handled the linking.

King Bastard