My friend Garry Parkes made a brand new post over at his blog the other day that really should be of interest to all students in the Alex Jeffrey’s mentoring program.

Traffic is probably the biggest obstacle you’ll need to overcome before you are prepared for success and the best part about what is set to transpire here is that all traffic you’ll receive from this idea of Garry’s will be targeted – meaning those people who click on your link to visit your blog through his newsletter will be looking to find out what you are up to or what you may be offering on your blog. In addition to this, you’ll only need to do the work once and you are completely set up for as long as your links remain active in his edition.

Following the examples created by others in the Alex Jeffrey’s program, i too have decided to setup a community listing for member blogs, but with a different approach.

Creating a huge list on a blogroll just is not a very good idea for a few reasons. When a web site’s page begins to contain an excessive amount of links, it begins to give a site a spam appearance… which is often frowned upon by search engines.

I’ve created a page branching off the main page which is reserved exclusively for member blogs. You’ll notice this link at the top entitled ‘friends’.