pantsonhead

I don’t really like Blogrolls, I think they’re often not much more than glorified link dumps. I don’t like how they give you nothing more than the Blog title, and unless that title really grabs your attention, you’re never gonna click it. I don’t like how they are often just a static list, commonly out of date, that you learn to ignore after the first 4 page views. In their current format, they just appear to be a great waste of space.
This is why I decided to create the RSS Blogroll plugin. RSS Blogroll allows you to link to your favourite blogs via the latest items from their RSS/Atom feed. Article titles are much more attention grabbing and will deliver much higher quality traffic. We all hate clicking through to abandoned blogs – displaying article publication dates also lets readers know these are up to date and active sites.
Many of us want to direct some of our traffic to related sites. RSS Blogroll will create deeplinks to the target sites, which are much more useful for SEO than homepage links. Overall it’s a win-win situation with a better browsing experience for users and the linked sites getting more visitors who are actually interested in their content.

RSS Blogroll

Sidebar widget that links to recent entries from RSS/Atom feeds.

dyersorg

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Buddy Love WordPress Widget allows you to display a configurable number of the latest headlines from sites in your WordPress blogroll. If you have specified a picture in the “Image Address” field for each link in your blogroll, the custom picture will appear to the left of headlines pulled from that site. The plugin makes use of caching, so it is extremely fast.
Some Features:
<ul>
<li>Each site can have its own icon shown beside its headlines.</li>
<li>The links can be set to “nofollow” if your headlines are coming from paid sources.</li>
<li>The number of links shown is configurable.</li>
<li>Buddy caches your feeds to keep things running fast and smooth.</li>
</ul>

Buddy Love

Allows you to show a random sampling of headlines from sites listed in your WordPress blogroll.

RSS Blogroll vs Buddy Love