Easy come, easy go
The new top 100 Centre right blog list is in from Iain Dale's empire. This blog didn't make the cut this year of the main category I would have been interested in the top 100 Centre Right. There are a lot of new blogs in there, and a lot of the old guard are slipping down the table - so maybe I shouldn't feel too bad.
Oddly the interaction and visitor frequency has been up over the last 6 months or so, with Silly Week a definite hit ( a lesson for the future perhaps - people love humour, even when the message is serious ).
I've seen a number of blogs run their course this year, and more threaten to call it a day - as we must all do eventually. But this blog remains sufficiently fuelled by anger at Labour's betrayal of our nation on so many levels that I think you'll still be hearing from me until at least June 2010, unless the No 10 bus, or those squirrels outside my shed, gets me first.
Update: OK self petty tempered by only a slight reduction in the Top 100 Conservative rating ( there must be a lot of UKIP and Libertarian blogs out there ).
6 comments:
According to Alexa, my blog is ranked 28,591,388th in the World, and I just don't care.
@ContraTory - Whose Alexa ? I used to use technorati, but the service just seems to have deteriorated over the last year.
I guess I could google to find out, but better get some work done instead !
Alexa is a web information company amongst other things providing internet traffic data, including website rankings (not just blogs). I first took note of it a few years ago when, misreading the stats, I thought it was suggesting that my blog had 1.5 visitors a month - a figure I knew to be grossly inflated.
Interesting - I'll have look at them shortly. In my professional life I'm about to launch a product sold on the internet so could be a useful resource.
Some of us just didn't bother entering or asking for votes this year, hey, ho. So what? Seems a lot of effort just to get a Blue Peter badge.
If the visitor stream dried up then I'd know I was doing something wrong.
I'm with Curly on this.
I never ask for votes in this exercise, nor do I vote for myself (but my respect for many other 'blogs prompts me to vote for them — well, ten of 'em!) and it really doesn't matter anyway.
We all know from the response we get — not necessarily in comments (as a lot of us don't comment for the sake of it, but only when we have something useful to contribute) but elsewhere.
Steve Green's quarterly events — or at least he hopes to make them quarterly — are perhaps a better indication of the respect we have for each other, and how well some are recognised and (dare I say it?) almost revered.
There is just so much "stuff" out there now, that even a top hundred in any category is going to be just a limited number of examples. Apart from the (predictable) front runners, everyone else is just in the mix, and any one year's results tells us very little.
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