I had this thought the other day.  I wanted to come up with a way that we, as a community here, can encourage the people that are encouraging us in the blog world.  Here’s what I propose.  Remember when I told you all to to figure out how to find your “top referrers” for the past month?  

Here’s the deal. I say once a month we find out our “Top Five Referrers” for that month, those that showed us the most “link love” and show our appreciation by writing a little something up about their blog encouraging your readers to check them out.  It doesn’t have to be anything extensive, but just something reviewing their blog, or maybe how you found their blog, or what you like about it.  Make sure it’s actual people though. If Google is sending you more than skip it and go to the next actual person. How’s that sound?  Does that make sense?  Expressing our gratitude to those that are sending us the most traffic once a month?  Then come back here and tell all of us about it.  Ready to give it a shot?  Here’s mine.

1.  RagamuffinSoul.com - I met Carlos about a year ago in Southern California but had been reading his blog for a few months before that.  Since then Carlos and I have run into each other in different parts of the country for short periods of time.  Carlos strives to keep his blog as real as he is, almost to a fault at times, but it’s amazing to watch.  His creativity and love for something new and better is pretty amazing.  I’m sure most of you here have seen Carlos’ blog but if you haven’t, check it out.

2.  ThisIsKristin.com - What can I say?  This is my hot wife.  We are best friends and continue to learn more and more about each other the longer we are married.  We are coming up on eight years being married and there is no one that I would rather spend my life with.  I also love that Kristin has gotten in to blogging.  At first she thought it was dumb, but after me bugging her for months, she decided that it would be a cool way to support what I was doing.  Turns out she is really good at it.  I love checking out the things she has to say.

3.  Andira’s Blog - I’ve never met Andira before and I’m not sure how she found me, but I know that she is one of the most faithful blog participants on my blog.  Quite literally every week she is one of the first to post on “Positive Post Tuesday” and every week I read them and am encouraged by the nice things she has to say about people.  Andira is a great writer and has a pretty entertaining blog.  Check it out.

4.  Chad Jarnagin - The Blogstar himself.  The first time I “met” Chad online was when I was when I was being sarcastic in a post that sort of was connected to Chad.  He was leading worship at our church and after I made fun of stuff we became friends.  Chad’s ultra connected in the music scene and has an amazing voice.  Numerous times we have gotten coffee and run out of time to talk about everything that we wanted to talk about.  Chad is one of those guys that whether it’s online or in person, you can relate to on some level.  Go Read.

5.  Culmer’s Thoughts - Jeff is a friend I met on the road and even though we live about fifteen minutes from each other, we have never hung out here.  Jeff’s blog is one of the most entertaining things to me.  I love spelling errors and funny pictures, which by the way Jeff is an amazing photographer.  He’s one of those guys you can’t help but like and his personality is translated perfectly through his blog.  Go say hi.

Simple enough eh?  So there it is.  Once a month I will do this thanking people for sending the love my way.  I encourage you all (not y’all) to do the same.  Let’s let people know that we appreciate being “Link Loved” by them and “love” them right back.  Write the post on your blog and link to it here. Ready?  Go.

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