Tumeke's blog rankings came out last night and NZ Conservative has slipped a few places over the last two months down to Number 21. I can't say I'm surprised as I haven't been posting much lately due to needing some down time from the internet.
But Tim Selwyn has raised an interesting point about using Alexa for traffic. I can't see how Alexa could in any way be reliable. When I compare what Alexa says about our traffic compared to Stat Counter, the latter is lower. Of course, that could have something to do with how a unique visitor is counted, and I must confess I haven't looked it how our visitors are counted beyond ZenTiger telling me a while back that he'd changed it.
The weird thing also is that the Technorati authority for our blog is currently sitting at 54, which is reasonable. And when I look at the higher volume blogs (ie those with a large number of commenters) that have a higher authority than us, that makes sense. What doesn't totally make sense are those in the top 20 whose authorities are quite low.
It also looks to me that if I sat here churning out post after post, that I could actually artificially inflate our rankings. However, doing that would drastically change the nature of our blog, as posts that people might be commenting on would get pushed down and therefore almost forgotten. One to four blog posts a day is probably the most we would want to do on that basis.
So, I'm curious as to how people think the blogosphere ought to be ranked, if the formula used is a good one or if there is some better indicator?
Related Link: NZ Blogosphere Rankings May 2008 ~ NZ Blogosphere
But Tim Selwyn has raised an interesting point about using Alexa for traffic. I can't see how Alexa could in any way be reliable. When I compare what Alexa says about our traffic compared to Stat Counter, the latter is lower. Of course, that could have something to do with how a unique visitor is counted, and I must confess I haven't looked it how our visitors are counted beyond ZenTiger telling me a while back that he'd changed it.
The weird thing also is that the Technorati authority for our blog is currently sitting at 54, which is reasonable. And when I look at the higher volume blogs (ie those with a large number of commenters) that have a higher authority than us, that makes sense. What doesn't totally make sense are those in the top 20 whose authorities are quite low.
It also looks to me that if I sat here churning out post after post, that I could actually artificially inflate our rankings. However, doing that would drastically change the nature of our blog, as posts that people might be commenting on would get pushed down and therefore almost forgotten. One to four blog posts a day is probably the most we would want to do on that basis.
So, I'm curious as to how people think the blogosphere ought to be ranked, if the formula used is a good one or if there is some better indicator?
Related Link: NZ Blogosphere Rankings May 2008 ~ NZ Blogosphere