The Z-List
O.K. It’s been going around for a while now. It was started by Mack Collier. The whole purpose of it is to build incoming links to fellow bloggers. I must confess I wasn’t thrilled by the idea. I am usually against processes that build automatic links without actually believing in what you link to. Such automation is very quickly picked up as spam. It seems there’s already voices against the list. However, since I was added to the list by Chris I decided to join the list. First of all I feel obligated to return the favor. Second of all I’ve already seen some new incoming links thanks to Chris.
The third reason is that I realised that, although there’s a slight risk (in terms of spam) there’s a unique aspect that makes me feel comfortable about it: I took the list from Chris and am going to include in it his additions. There’s other lists from other bloggers going around. Other bloggers are picking up other lists. It’s like a tree with branches that keep growing in different directions each new branch having it’s own identity. While there’s the base of the list (those who got in among the first) each new list has new and different links.
Giving all these reasons I decide to (as TheProbabilist puts it) “spread the link love”.
It’s very easy to join the love circle. Write a new post (everyone uses the “Z-List” term in the title) in which you put the whole list bellow as well as suggest any blogs you would like to see included in it.
It’s suggested that you don’t add your own blog(s) to the list. Let those you include in the list (and who will hopefully join) add your blog.
Here’s the list:
The blogs I would like to see added to the list:
Here’s the list I got from Chris (remember to add my list to it and your own suggestions):
Carols Vault
Blog About Your Blog
Monetize Your Blog
Make Money On The Net
Make$ Money$
Successful Online Money Making
Turn One Pound Into One Million$
Work at Home Blog
Blogging For Beginners
How to earn money online?
Dosh Dosh
Money Money Money
Money Making Quest
Connected Internet
Mike’s Money Making Mission
Time to Budget
Can I Make Big Money Online
Blogtrepreneur
Flee the Cube
Blogging Secret
Blogging to Fame
Million Dollar Experiment heads Down Under
Quest to make money on the internet
Kumiko’s Cash Quest
Calico Monkey
Internet Bazaar
Shotgun Marketing Blog
BrandSizzle
bizsolutionsplus
Customers Rock!
Being Peter Kim
Pow! Right Between The Eyes!
Billions With Zero Knowledge
Working at Home on the Internet
MapleLeaf 2.0
Two Hat Marketing
darrenbarefoot.com
The Emerging Brand
The Branding Blog
CrapHammer
Drew’s Marketing Minute
Golden Practices
Viaspire
Tell Ten Friends
Flooring the Consumer
Kinetic Ideas
Unconventional Thinking
Buzzoodle
NewsPaperGrl
The Copywriting Maven
Hee-Haw Marketing
Scott Burkett’s Pothole on the Infobahn
Multi-Cult Classics
Logic + Emotion
Branding & Marketing
Popcorn n Roses
On Influence & Automation
Bullshitobserver
Servant of Chaos
converstations
eSoup
Presentation Zen
Dmitry Linkov
aialone
John Wagner
Nick Rice
CKs Blog
Design Sojourn
Frozen Puck
The Sartorialist
Small Surfaces
Africa Unchained
Perspective
gDiapers
Marketing Nirvana
Bob Sutton
¡Hola! Oi! Hi!
Shut Up and Drink the Kool-Aid!
Women, Art, Life: Weaving It All Together
Community Guy
Social Media on the fly
February 8th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
I had some similar initial concerns about how search engines will regard the Z list but ultimately decided to publish my list because I believed that the actual motive behind it is to share the blogs you like with your readers.
I love how its going so far.. I get fresh incoming links by the hour and best of all, I get to discover new blogs that have really good content. Awesome
February 8th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
hey Maki,
awesome indeed. since i’ve only been added on the list yesterday, i don’t get “fresh incoming links by the hour” :), but i had my share of quite a bunch in the last day.
thanks for the comment,
cosmin
February 9th, 2007 at 11:28 am
Hi,
The original intent of the Z-list, as Mack put it together, was not solely to give bloggers an easy way to get link love. It was originally a list of little-known bloggers that were worthy of a read. So, you added to the list those bloggers you thought were worthwhile. Maki was right on the mark with the comment above.
A side benefit is a disruption of traditional search engine rankings.
Thanks for keeping it going!
February 9th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
hey Becky,
thanx for the comment and for pointing out Mack’s original intent. it’s an extra reason for me (and others) to feel comfortable with it.
cheers,
cosmin
February 9th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
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February 10th, 2007 at 12:21 am
Becky is exactly right. And I remember how hard it was for me to build a community when I first got started blogging. I remember posting and hating that I never got comments at first, because no one knew I had a blog. The Z-List was an attempt to draw some attention to those blogs, and give them a ‘headstart’. Hopefully it will help do the same for CosminPTR
February 10th, 2007 at 5:09 am
well, it got you over here didn’t it?
i only hope i’ll manage to keep you coming back
thanks for the comments,
cosmin
February 23rd, 2007 at 7:17 am
How’s this one doing for you Cosmin? I’ve got 110 extra blogs linking out of it so far, and some new readers. I think it’s a great idea
February 23rd, 2007 at 10:54 am
it’s working great Chris. i didn’t get quite that many blogs linking, but i’ve got pretty good results.
February 25th, 2007 at 12:02 am
Hi Cosmin,
I just found this page. I was wondering where those backlinks came from. Thanks for the link love.
Jose
February 25th, 2007 at 4:12 am
you’re welcome Jose.
how about you join the Z-List?