Just the other day, a comment was left on my blog regarding a new service for allowing readers to link up to your blog, called inlinkz. Since I am just getting ready to start using that sort of thing with the 365 Days of Decluttering Challenge, I decided to check it out.
Here’s where you can read the whole story about how impressed I am with the people behind this, or you can jump down for the bottom line.
When I first went to the site, most of the links to more information weren’t working, but within a couple of hours, I had a comment from one of the site developers letting me know that they were actually in the process of going live at that moment and that the links would be operational very soon.
So I went back and signed up and did a test list on a draft blog post. When I entered my link and name, both items showed up as a two-column list on my blog. I realized that could get very long and messy, especially if people were linking to a specific blog post. Since the developer had left me a comment, I emailed her and let her know my initial thoughts.
To my amazement, she emailed me back and said she would add more options to the site for how to display each list and asked me to let her know about anything else I was looking for. (You can follow inlinkz on twitter to keep up with them as well.)
The Bottom Line
Inlinkz is very simple to use and configurable in terms of what shows up and how much space it can take up on your blog. You can put end times on your lists, moderate them, edit the configuration and even see stats of how much each link was clicked on.
I’ve put a simple one-column list with an end date of January 31st down below if you’d like to try it out. Just click the “add your link” button and enter a link to your blog homepage. (Fine print: links going to any weird locations will be deleted!)
I entered my own link so you could see how it will look – the text shown will be whatever you put in the “Description” field.
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Thanks for the info – definitely something I want to check out.
Accidentally added my link twice. Sorry!
Thomas
That's okay – I fixed it! Thanks for linking up.
Wow! I'll definitely have to check this out. I'm also about to add Disqus to my site. I waivered on that decision for MONTHS. I think I'm about to finally take the dive, though.
I am pretty happy with it. It's nice that your comments stay in your blog dashboard and aren't only in Disqus. So it's fairly easy to go back if you decide to later. Let me know how it goes!
I am pretty happy with it. It's nice that your comments stay in your blog dashboard and aren't only in Disqus. So it's fairly easy to go back if you decide to later. Let me know how it goes!
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