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January 21, 2005

Links, Rankings, TTLB, and The Brigade

As I've occasionally posted, I'm still trying to figure out both my traffic patterns and my linking policies. I do try to provide direct links to those blogs which link to me, and I was depending on the TTLB Ecosystem report to find when new links appeared (I only get trackback pings from other MovableType blogs, not blogs using other software). Over the past day or so, I was finding — yet again — links disappearing from the TTLB list.

This time, I thought I'd better check to see what was going on. A couple of Brigade members have been inactive for long enough that they're no longer being counted by the TTLB stats, even if they still have static links on their pages. Some of them have ceased to link to any of the other Brigade members (probably because they were using the old blogrolling script).

What's most frustrating is finding that active blogs are still linking to me, but are not showing up in the TTLB lists at all. (I know: NZ Bear provides the service at no charge, so who the heck am I to complain?) So, if you're currently linking to Quotulatiousness and I'm not reciprocating, please let me know and I'll fix that!

Posted by Nicholas at January 21, 2005 11:39 AM
Comments
This is your friend: http://www.technorati.com/ Posted by: Andrew at January 21, 2005 02:12 PM
It may be my friend, but it's a s-l-o-w friend so far. I'll see how this impacts my page loading speed. Thanks for the suggestion! Posted by: Nicholas at January 21, 2005 04:10 PM
My trackbacks have not worked properly since before the holidays so I am more or less disregarding my Ecosystem link ranking. I think NZ Bear did some tinkering that changed things a bit too. There was at least one blog that was inflating my rank due to an odd individual archive set-up and that seems to have been fixed... Still, glad to hear it is not just down to my technical difficulties! Posted by: Flea at January 22, 2005 11:16 AM
The Ecosystem is a great idea, but I think it's close to reaching the point of no return: there's probably too much out there to reasonably track on his budget (and he's doing it for free, too). After the third time I bounced up a level only to bounce right back down again a few days later (sometimes much lower), I've stopped thinking that it's actually a meaningful measurement of anything. Posted by: Nicholas at January 22, 2005 12:53 PM


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