The benefits of a blogroll and how do you create it?

A blogroll is a list of blogs, usually placed in the sidebar of a blog, that reads as a list of recommendations by bloggers from other blogs. While it often indicates a blogger's affiliations or advertisers, this list can also include many other recommended media types, including newspapers, journals, books, or companies.

Benefits of Using Blogrolls on Websites

A blogger might use a blogroll to help promote their friend's blog or to give their readers more variety of resources about a particular niche. Blogrolls can be set based on the personal preferences of each blogger, and can be updated at any time.

Some divide blogrolls into categories. For example, a blogger who writes about cars may divide his blogroll into sections with backlinks to other blogs he writes, other blogs about cars, and other blogs on unrelated topics.

It's an unwritten rule in the blogosphere that if someone puts a backlink to your blog on their blogroll, you should reciprocate. Of course, every blogger approaches this with their own goals.

Sometimes, you may not like blogs that link backlinks to your site. There are many reasons why you might decide not to reply to blogroll backlinks, but it's a good blogging etiquette to at least review every site that links to yours to determine whether or not you want to add it to your own blogroll.

Another great step is to contact the person who listed your backlink and thank them for adding your site to their blogroll. This may be a must especially if their mention drives significant traffic to your website, even if you don't really like the blogroll owner or their content.

Asking someone to add your website to their blogroll is not good etiquette, even if you have added their site to your own blogroll. If they want to add your website to their blogroll of their own accord, that's great and looks very natural.

Blogroll Can Increase Your Website Traffic

Blogrolls are a great traffic driving tool. With every indexed blog, there is a chance that readers will click on your backlink and visit your site.

Blogroll equals publicity and exposure across blog sites. Also, blogs with lots of inbound backlinks (especially those from high-quality sites rated by Google PageRank) are usually ranked higher by search engines, which can bring additional traffic to your blog.

If you are a blogroll owner, it's a good idea to update your backlinks every now and then. We recommend at least adding new backlinks or rearranging your content to keep it natural. If your visitors know your blogroll is updated frequently, they will likely visit your page regularly to see which new blogs you recommend.

How to Use Blogroll

The word “blogroll” sounds complicated, but it is just a list of backlinks to websites. You can easily create one, no matter what blogging platform you use.

If you are using a Blogger account, you can do this in a number of ways. Just add a Link List, Blog List, or HTML/JavaScript widget to your blog that contains links to the blogs you want to advertise.

If you have a WordPress.com blog, use the menus in your dashboard. For any blog, you can edit the HTML to link to any blog. Blogroll is a list of backlinks to other blog sites that you own, or blogs that you maintain like PBN. Blogrolls have a long history in the blogging culture.

In this article, we will share an easy way to add a blogroll in WordPress. We'll also talk about the history of blogrolls, and how you can benefit from them.

How to Create a Blogroll in WordPress

WordPress has great menu management features which is why the core team decided to remove the blogroll feature. Typically, you'll use the navigation menu in WordPress to add links to your website's navigation bar, footer links, or elsewhere.

However, you can also use the same navigation menu to create and manage blogrolls in WordPress. Just go to Appearance » Menus page and click on the ‘Create new menu’ link.

WordPress will now create a new blank menu for you and ask you to provide a name for it. You can name it Blogroll, so it's easy to spot as you work on your website.

Don't forget to click the 'Create menu' button to save it. After that, click to expand the 'Custom Links' tab under the 'Add menu item' column on the left.

Here, you need to enter the URL of your blog or website, then add a blog title under 'Link text'. After that click the 'Add to Menu' button.

You will see the items appear under the right column and your empty Blogroll menu will now have the items in it.

Now you can repeat the process to add any other links that you want to appear on your blogroll. When finished, don't forget to click the 'Save Menu' button to save your blogroll link.

You can also use how to plant a Blogroll in the sidebar of your blog. Simply, go to Appearance » Widgets page and add the ‘Navigation Menu’ widget to your sidebar.

After that, enter the title you want to display for the blogroll and then select the menu you created earlier from the drop-down menu.

Don't forget to click the Save button to save your widget settings. You can now visit your website to see your Blogroll displayed in the sidebar.

We hope this article helped you learn how to easily add a blogroll in WordPress and know what a Blogroll is. That is all and thank you.