SEOMeter graphs your Google crawl rate
SEOMeter is a new analytics tool that tracks how often Google is crawling your website, and they win my gratitude as being the first to order a paid review. SEOMeter displays graphs of your blog/site and the related crawl cycles (CC), which are how often Google visits your blog for new content. If you have a crawl cycle of 1.0, then Google visits your blog once per day. With this in mind, the lower your CC the more trusted Google finds your blog. If that introduction was over your head, you can check out their FAQ page which might explain it better than I can.
Technorati Sucks
I was planning on writing one final blog post announcing my Technorati milestone of getting my blog into the top 25,000 blogs of all time, but I decided to change it to a negative post after I have finally been fed up with Technorati.
Technorati has always been attacked by spam blogs, but only recently has it been overrun with them. It started when the pharmaceutical companies started their Technorati Favorites spam campaign. Technorati and their staff didn’t seem to do anything about it, so as you can guess, the spammers evolved their techniques into a more hostile spamming campaign. Keyword spammers seem to have also taken siege, and I have not heard about any new features coming out. Even the new versions of WordPress have switched from utilizing Technorati reactions over to using Google Blogsearch listings.
Blog Contest
Update: Just a friendly reminder, this is a contest I am sponsoring, but my biggest contest where I give money away every week is located on the post called The Weekly Winner Contest. Sorry if any of you were confused as I have both of these contests running. Feel free to enter both if you would like!
My friend over at Bloggin-Ads has just published his One Heck Of A Giveaway contest. I have sponsored his giveaway with (3x) one month 125×125 advertisements on my blog when the new theme is complete. I have also pledged him 300 Entrecard credits but it does not look like he has them in a prize package. If he decides not to give them away, I will donate them to one of my readers.
RealRank Sucks
IZEA, the company that runs PayPerPost and pays bloggers to write about products, has just launched their new “blogging statistics” site called RealRank. IZEA said that there was no accurate way to measure a blogs popularity, but that is a blatant marketing lie. Google has “sent the hounds” on IZEA and their products because Google does not want people artificially gaming their system, so Google has resorted to banning and penalizing offending blogs. Google has been lowering/removing pagerank from blogs that have been caught selling paid links and paid blog posts that pass Pagerank.
The Digg Effect Case Study
My last post talking about the top 10 reasons this list will be popular on digg was not only popular, but it was a flagship Digg post for me. I knew the digg users would digg it up, but I had no idea it would receive over 5000 diggs. This post is going to be a case study showcasing the Digg effect on my server. The Digg effect is where an article is featured on the homepage on Digg.com and receives tens of thousands of visitors in a very short time period (a huge spike in traffic).
New year = a new direction?
I have a lot of big blogging plans for the 2008 year.
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