Blog Tools: Who Links to Me, Alexa, How Much is Your Blog Worth?
Those of you who have been reading the scratchpad or blogging on Harvard’s server for two to three years might remember the now defunct global stats and rankings pages some of us used to watch. Many of us have been hoping we could find a similar ranking tool for our blogs or some other measure of stats, so I keep an eye out for such tools.
Bill Ives writes about Who Links to Me, a ranking site that gathers data from a few different sources. He found some inconsistencies. One possible inconsistency I noticed immediately is that it only claims 7 blog rolls list the scratchpad. Surely more than that include a link to this blog. When I technorati this blog, I can easily find six. I know of at least one more that isn’t there.
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The listing for this blog in Who Links to Me led me to the Alexa listing, which seems to blend data about the scratchpad with data for Harvard University’s domain in general.
There are plenty of other ways to measure blog value, too, like with something I consider to be fun: How much is your blog worth?, which I first noticed on The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century. This blog’s value is shown in the diagram on the left. I wonder if it changes over time. Addenda 3/13: The Information Today blog Intelligent Adviser lists the scratchpad in its blog roll, too. That means at least 8 blogs include this blog in their blog roll. 3/14: 9 blog rolls! bwahahaha! |
