In the past two months, the rank of this blog on Google search results has improved from #19 to #9 for Procrastination, #2 to #1 for Zack Ajmal, and from #56 to #11 for Zack.
In other blog news, I should pass 6,000 unique visitors and 8,000 page views some time tomorrow.
In addition to the Janes’ Blogosphere RSS feed, I have also provided an RSS feed by Voidstar. Voidstar includes the last 25 posts while Janes has all the entries for the last 24 hours (usually much less than 25).
In case you are wondering about the order of the blogs in my blogroll, they are arranged approximately according to the number of visits I have gotten from that blog. So if you want your blog to be listed higher, it’s easy: just send visitors my way grin.
And finally a pitch for spreading the word about this blog, copied verbatim from Volokh Conspiracy (except for dividing the number of visitors by 100).
But, like all bloggers, we’d love to have more visitors — we’re thrilled at the 50 or so we get on the average day, but we want more, more, MORE! So if you like this blog, I’d like to ask you to spread the word. I know many of you have been doing it already, but the general rule is that if you don’t ask, you usually won’t get, so we’re asking this of those who (1) are inclined to do it, and (2) haven’t done so yet. For example, you might
- E-mail friends, especially friends who you know like reading stuff online, to suggest that they check out this blog.
- Add us to your blogroll, if you have a blog. We fully understand why some people might like to keep their blogrolls small (we certainly do), but our general practice is to blogroll those blogs that we regularly read — if you agree with us on this, and you read us regularly, perhaps you might do the same, if you haven’t already.
- Add us to your organization’s blogroll, if you run it — we know some mainstream media organizations keep lists of recommended blogs, as do some think tanks and academic departments.
- Bookmark us, if you find that you visit occasionally and think “Gee, I wish I’d visited more often, but I keep forgetting.”
- Get people to add our RSS feeds (available on the left-hand side of the screen, under the orange buttons labeled “XML”) to their RSS readers.
Or, if you prefer, do nothing of the above — we’re happy to have you reading on whatever terms you like.
Congratulations. I’ll keep on plugging you every chance I get – you deserve more exposure.
Thanks, Jonathan.
Hey, I’m #8 on the list of those who send you the most visitors. I’m sure as hell never going to be able to compete with the likes of Instapundit, but then who is.
But there is a big difference between you and Instapundit, Al-Muhajabah. He linked to me once and I got a lot of visitors that day while I receive a few visitors from you daily.
True, true. Maybe if you ranked your list by who has the highest daily average, it would give hope to those of us who are insignificant microbes of the blogosphere.
The problem is that right now I am doing it manually. So I do it once a couple of weeks. If I can figure out how to automate it, I can do all sorts of nifty data analyses and rank blogs accordingly.
Blogrolling provides some automation. I use it for the convenience. If I find a blog I like, I click on the “Blogroll this” in my links toolbar, enter a description, and the blog is added to my blogroll.
It also allows you to assign a priority to each blog and then list them by priority. I suppose that you could work up a scale for priority based on number of visitors the blog sends and then if there was a sudden change, you could go in and modify the priority for a blog.
However, if you want to complete automate it you would probably need to use something like Stephen Downes’ referrers script, which lists the referrers to your page in the last 24 hours and how many visitors each sent.