Comments on: Blog link tracking reviewed

By: amateur wife

amateur wife — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 08:52:56 +0000

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By: Shirazi

Shirazi — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:33:05 +0000

Do you mean that it is time to shift from Technorai to other services?

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 01:06:00 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to compile the list.

I must quibble though: Feedster is a waste of time (as of now). It doesn’t know me and I don’t know it. Blogpusle only “ranks” (I believe this implies no profiles for any blog outside…) the top 10,000. Technorati still has the best layout and design for my (lack of) money but, OY, so slow and unreliable. I’ve tried the Bloglines route and though they are my fav in the feeds/subs department, I think I’ll take a wait and see attitude toward their tracking. The others you metioned I will certainly try, especially Pubsub since Bob Wyman was kind enough to troll you.

By: Jim Kukral

Jim Kukral — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 21:59:24 +0000

Duncan, great list. I just recently re-launched with technorati links, but I’m going to change it very soon. Probably going with blogpulse. Great list and thanks for putting it together.

By: Bob Wyman

Bob Wyman — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 15:32:24 +0000

You wrote: “all these wonderful daily stats but nothing that actually adds them up”. Thanks for the compliment. Now as for the criticism: It is important to understand that we’re offering a different kind of numbers than the other services. What we focus on is the pattern of behaviors over time, not simply the raw numbers. Thus, we generate daily numbers and LinkRanks and soon, we’ll be generating LinkRanks over longer periods of time. We don’t keep an accumulated “InLinks in all time” since we think that would be a pretty useless number and carries no useful statistical information that can be used to compare different blogs (because the sampling period varies between blogs).

You wrote: “to get a total count of blog links I had to use TalkDigger to get them” Please be aware that TalkDigger only has access to the last 30 days of data when they scrape our pages. Thus, while numbers from the other services are “Links they have seen over all time” the TalkDigger number for PubSub is only “Links seen in the last 30 days.”

By the way, did you notice that we provide an Atom feed for every one of the 15+ million blogs we report on? We think that providing this data via feeds makes a great deal of sense and should make it easy for folk to accumulate data on their own sites over whatever period might interest them. The Atom feed for BlogHerald can be found at:
http://www.pubsub.com/site_stats_feed.php?site=blogherald.com

Thanks for your review comments. We’ll be releasing quite a few enchancements to our statistics over time. One we’re working on now is computing LinkRanks over periods longer than a day. Take a look at the following demo page to see one view of what the results might look like:

http://demos.pubsub.com/linkranks1000/

We hope to please you more in the future.

bob wyman

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Technoogle » Blog Archive » Blogs Link Tracking reviewed — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 13:09:10 +0000

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By: Rich Ottum

Rich Ottum — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:56:06 +0000

Duncan: I’ve worked with the folks at Intelliseek, the parent of BlogPulse, for months now, and they are smart, dedicated people. I agree their suite of tools is outstanding, and I readily recommend BlogPulse for a variety of applications. Rich

By: John (SYNTAGMA)

John (SYNTAGMA) — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:37:06 +0000

Yes, but almost all traffic linked to specific posts, particularly on hot topics like Katrina, comes via Technorati (my experience). I agree links are not well handled. But, if you want traffic, go Technorati.

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:38:09 +0000

Francesco: Actually, he’s been leaving a fair number of valuable comments on my site. I let him through, in spite of the URL, because I value conversation.

Duncan: Links in IceRocket are easy. Click Blogs. Then Click Links under the search box. I never had problems with them. If that’s your only real complaint, I’d move them above PubSub and Technorati. Particularly because they do have extra features like trending and such.

By: Francesco

Francesco — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:59:43 +0000

First comment is spam, “credit card” as nickname?

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Psybertron Asks » Blog Tracking Tools — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 08:36:58 +0000

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By: Sheila Lennon

Sheila Lennon — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 08:32:04 +0000

I think it helps to have a stable history at one address.

I blogged for years using a
handmade html page that underwent a directory change and redirect at one point, but when I switched to MT and a different server, the blog became nearly invisible.

Technorati and IceRocket see my blog and some of its links. BlogPulse has nothing on my blog; it does see some recent inbound links but, oddly, it doesn’t see those from Doc Searls.

Because they don’t see so much, I think they’re all just fair.

By: carte di credito

carte di credito — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 07:40:51 +0000

Great list!