The 1%

I read an interesting article about blogging this weekend. In a nutshell, the things you shouldn't have on your blog. I agreed with 9 out of 10 of them, so guess what this post is going to be about. Yep. The one percent.

Lifehack had this to say about Blogrolls and Link Exchanges:

"If you must have a list of links of other blogs, move them to a separate page. Your sidebar should be reserved for the things you absolutely need your readers to see or do (and having them click away to someone else's site shouldn't be your priority)."

I'm thinking...Nah, not so much. I LOVE blogrolls on other peoples sites and here's why:

1. It opens up a world of new blogs for me to check out.

2. If I respect the blog I'm reading and they recommend another blog to me, I'm pretty sure I'm going to learn something new and valuable by checking them out.

3. It tells me information and helps me to get to know the author of the blog I'm reading by seeing what kind of tastes they have outside their own blog.
4. It's a great way for me to recommend sites I love to my readers.

5. Building a platform is oh-so-much-easier when you've got blogger buddies who advertise your site on theirs via a blogroll entry.

So, what about you? Agree or disagree? Are blogrolls a valuable tool or not?