[site news] Made the Feedster top 500 list — thank you! |
Thank you to all those who read, link and subscribe to Things That … Make You Go Hmm, as this blog has made the inaugural Feedster Top 500 blog list for August 2005. And thank you to Feedster for creating this monthly list.
Feedster CEO Scott Rafer explains how this ranking was determined:
It is a ranking of the blogs with the most inbound links over time, however only blogs with posts in the last seven days were included.
I downloaded the Feedster top 500 tab delimited file and ran the list against blogcompare and found 120 blogs existed in both lists. Something about this doesn’t seem right, so think I’ll check this again later more closely.
Jason Calacanis likes the top 500 list, but is being taken to task by some dissenting commenters because the list shows Engadget at the #1 spot. Kevin Burton fails to “see why this is that interesting” but thinks it is cool that they provided the raw data. Scoble: “Me? I’m #74. Very honored. But, personally, it’s not a big deal.”
Will be back later after our daily workout, running late!
Update: Successfully re-claimed this feed (I’ve done this before) and for some reason my icon isn’t showing, even after I tried to upload several times. Apparently this is buggy … or it’s cached.
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At least we now have a second list!
When we have five lists like this we will really start to understand the number of links people really have and the impact of those links.
I’m just happy that we can now see 101 to 500….. and that we have another look at the world.
Competition is going to be great for Feedster/Technorati/PubSub/Icerocket… if only Google and Yahoo would join the party!
best j
Comment by Jason — August 16, 2005 @ 9:34 am PST
Please post the overlapping 120 ranked by some weighted average mechanism that your disclose!
Scott
Comment by Scott Rafer — August 16, 2005 @ 5:12 pm PST
Scott - Blogcompare stats are totally open and available to anybody. No disclosure needed
They are based off the stats via the Technorati API, see: http://www.makeyougohmm.com/category/blogcompare/
Also the Alexa ratings for each site (save the domains that do multi-blog hosting) are available for sorting. Pretty much anybody who will open up an API I’ll be willing to put in there for comparison. Check it out as I think you’ll find it pretty useful for comparing blogs. Users that aren’t in the database can add their blogs and they will be updated every week or two, depending on when the source data is updated.
Comment by TDavid — August 16, 2005 @ 5:18 pm PST
[…] Traffic from those main search results. This morning Google has sent this blog some 90% of all search engine result traffic. 90%! Heck, being on the Feedster Top 500 list has sent more traffic today than Yahoo and MSN combined! This is pretty authoratative proof of which search engine is best for my business. It echoes what I find when I conduct many, many searches. Google keeps track of the searches I’m making and it’s something like two dozen a day on average. […]
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