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Rank is something we bloggers take very seriously.
By xaby | October 2, 2007
To all bloggers who are crazy over your blog ranking… here’s a must read.
The problem is, nobody seems to be that good at measuring it — not yet, anyway.For the past couple years, bloggers have loosely relied on Technorati to do the job, with blogs ranked according to their number of incoming links from unique blogs. For some bloggers, though, that may change now that Techmeme has announced a new feature, Techmeme Leaderboard, that ranks blogs according to how often they appear on, well, Techmeme.
Over at TechCrunch (no relation), Michael Arrington has the scoop:
Sphere: Related ContentTo be exact, top blogs will be ranked on presence - “the percentage of headline space a source occupies over the 30-day period.” Discussion links are not taken into consideration - only full headlines are counted.
I think this is a much better way of ranking the very top blogs than the Technorati approach. Technorati has deep flaws, for reasons stated above. Techmeme, by contrast, has zero spam and tends to mirror what the tech blogosphere is writing about perfectly.
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