Forget Traffic, It’s A Waste Of Your Time
Loren is right, and I knew it, and now the “dirty little secret” is out? Look, it wasn’t a secret to me. This tiny little bubble we all live in in this tiny tech world is unnoticed by the rest of the real world. Somehow there was this idea that we marketing/tech bloggers drove massive [...]
Who Cares About Traffic? Techmeme Is A Branding Game
Silly Scoble, traffic is for kids. The real value of being on Techmeme, having your stories listed on Techmeme is NOT traffic, it’s association. It’s branding. Look at this list below (graphic), for this story we’re talking about right now. Look at the names in that list. I took this screen grab before I wrote [...]
People LOVE Lists – You Should Make One
It’s pretty amazing that a one-person team with no investment money can, and has, completely kicked the butt of an established service in a matter of a year. I’m talking of course about Gabe from Techmeme, who’s new “Top 100” list will in my opinion finally drive the nail in the coffin of Technorati. The [...]
How Does Google Blog Search Rank Blogs? Now We Know.
My nightly Techmeme roundup found me learning about how Google ranks blogs in its blog search engine. I always thought it worked just like Technorati defaults, which is by “most current, relevancy”. But I was wrong. According to Search Engine Roundtable… What positive factors contribute to a blog ranking well in Google Blog Search? How [...]
Uh-Oh, Techcrunch Grabbed The MyBlogLog Story
Thanks to Sam for pointing this out to me. I wrote about this last night here. Judging by the first comment at TC (below), I can already see where this will be going. Not good for MBL. Holy Christ, what kind of developer doesn’t encrypt their login cookies? That’s not a security hole, it’s just [...]
TecheMeme Loves Sam Harrelson’s Cost Per News
This is blatant proof. Seems that Techmeme.com picked up Sam’s write up about my new plans. I didn’t think it was that big of news, but I guess the Techmeme system did! Or, more likely, they value Sam’s Costpernews.com highly, as they should. That’s probably it :)









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