If the person NEVER visits and comments on my blog, I toss it off eventually in most cases, because I think to have a “friend” you should be a friend, and that means supporting each other’s work/blogs/etc. Honey, you’re not THAT busy or important that you can’t stop by once in awhile, and if you think you are, why should I bother with YOU? Because trust me, I juggle at least a dozen projects at a time, plus I’m usually working on Broadway. So when people do the “I don’t have time” BS — that’s what it is, BS. You mean you don’t think my blog is worth it. Which is fine, but, for me, blogging and internet is INTERACTIVE, not voyeuristic. If it’s not a two-way street — my time is better spent elsewhere.

If it’s poorly written — I know, shouldn’t have to mention it, but a lot of people who find me claim they “want to” write but don’t write regularly and the blogs are full of errors and give me headaches. Those are quickly dropped.

Not updating regularly.

In fact, I’m about to do fall cleaning of my blogroll and toss off a bunch and add on a bunch of new, regularly visited blogs!

I don’t pay much attention to whether someone on my blogroll links to me or not. The main reason for the blogroll is to introduce my readers to other blogs I think they will like. However, when I redesigned my blog, the blogroll didn’t make the transfer. So now I’m having to reconstruct it, and I’m sure I’ll leave someone off that I really want to include.

As for commenting on every blog I read, it’s just not possible. Unless I could wrangle a full-time job as a blog commenter, I’d spend my entire day commenting and would never make any money!

As it stands now, I should be writing weight loss articles, not commenting here. 🙂

Nice post.

I wouldn’t keep a link to a blog that hasn’t been updated for months. In my opinion, I don’t even understand why the author of such a blog would bother to keep it online.