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I cleaned up my blogroll today. I also cleaned up the right sidebar of the home page of this weblog… I did this for a few reasons, most of all to get the page-load time down on this page (blogrolling.com returns the blogroll feed slowly sometimes) and to cut down on the referrer spam that was showing up on the referrers part of the sidebar.

So, what was my criteria for taking someone off the blogroll?

1. If the site that was linked didn’t have an XML feed, they got dropped.
2. If a weblog I was linking to moved URLs since I added them, they got dropped (as I was obviously not reading them enough to know that they’d moved URLs).
3. If the weblog wasn’t updated in the last two months, it was dropped. Note: If the weblog was a good read (like The FuzzyBlog) I updated the blogroll, by deleting the old link and replacing it with a new link.
4. If the weblog or link I was blogrolling doesn’t ping weblogs.com or blo.gs, I dropped the feed.
5. If the link to something I’d blogrolled was dead or otherwise old, I dropped the link.

I pared down the main blogroll of this site from 70+ links to 58. I’m sure I’ll get it back up to 70 by the end of the year.

Oh, and the other reason I did this today was so that I could avoid going in to the office for a few more minutes (I really have a lot of work that needs to get done by Monday).