B$ Strategery

I don't have an exact formula, and probably never will, but the sweet spot for maximizing outgoing link value seems to be to have about 3x as many outgoing links as incoming ones, give or take a few percentage points either way. If you have 10 incoming links, having 30 outgoing will gain you a boost. 20 incoming means 60 outgoing, etc.

Obviously, linking to those linking to you should help. An idea I've been playing with is to also link to blogs that link to blogs linking to me. As long as I have extra links to spread around, seems like a sound strategy.

Problem is many blogs linking to me are in a freefall at the moment, and many have the wrong number of outgoing links to stabilize things at the moment. Might have to ride the fall before the upswing can begin.

Regarding my last entry, having more than 3x outgoing as incoming is OK, you still get the boost, but obviously the outgoing value is split among all of your outgoing links. One blog I know has over 8x as many outgoing as incoming, and is still seeing the boost.

A rough formula: Outgoing Value * # of Outgoing Links / Blog Value. If you're not hitting the sweet spot, this value will be close to 1. If you're hitting it, it will be something around 5-8, depending on the exact ratio of links.

Project Bootstrap is well under way. This is the code name I've given to my effort to get the values of my blogs back up to where they had been a few weeks back, before the market slid into the toilet.

I had made some early headway, but was foiled when some other blogs that link here changed their links, and crashed their incoming values to me, and it's been a slow slide ever since, despite my best efforts. At long last, things have stabilized, and we're now on the upswing again.

A few other blogs that link here have taken my advise on linking, and increased their outgoing links to about 3x the incoming, and have further linked to those that link to blogs that link to them, seeding things further, and this is now paying off by a nice upward swing.

At this point, just having one more blog increasing their links this way would result in an even greater boost, I'm sure...