On a whim I decided to see what has happened to the Technorati rating of this blog over the past week. Much to my surprise it has gone up from being ranked over 299,000 to just under 201,500. And this apparently on the strength of being linked to by two blogs (thank you Ariel and Paul Cornell). Obviously being ranked lower than 200,000 is no great shakes (Emerald City is still up there at 21,000), but think about this for a minute. Getting just two more links moved me up almost 100,000 places in the rankings. There must be an awful lot of lonely and unloved blogs out there.
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I noticed that with my new blog, too. It slows down a lot later, where the extra links don’t mean as much gain in rank. My LJ had a rank in the 50s, but my new blog has yet to break 100. I haven’t had any copyediting posts lately, though, and that’s what people really come to mine for; once I think up something industry-specific, I’ll probably get back to 100.
You’ll go up a few more notches now as I’ve just realized I forgot to list you and have now corrected the error. Very sorry.
Wow. I link to you as well but I guess that doesn’t help as only about four people read MY blog. 🙂
Hmm, yes. looking at it more closely, I don’t think Technorati picks up on a link in a blogroll. It only picks up on links in actual posts. Which means (shock! horror!) that we have to say something interesting to other people…
Give me time and I’ll go through that list of indie music links you have and talk about it.
Rock on! And it’s a great list of links. Go forth and play, m’dear.