During self-servowriting, burst information is written within slots defined on tracks of a recording medium. In writing the burst information, write to read interference, caused by large offsets in separate read and write elements of a recording transducer, is to be avoided. In order to avoid the write to read interference, the slots are carefully chosen. The choice of a particular slot can be independent of any predefined order, such as a successive order. Further, the order in which slots are chosen may be altered during the propagation process.