Comments on: What did you get from the 2k Bloggers list?

By: collin

collin — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:26:10 +0000

Good insight Boyd, and thanks for the kudos on the design.

Parker-
Great example. It seems like many Social Media blogs that rank people, or thank people, or simply behave as a link pool, don’t offer much.

Chris-
To be fair, it wasn’t Jaffe’s list, he was crowdsourcing his book cover at the time and thought it would work.

Zoe-
Friends under fire

Thanks for the comments… Did anybody else get something out of the 2k blogger list (or something similar) besides inflated blog rankings?

By: zoe

zoe — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:11:14 +0000

hmmmm…the closest example I have is when I got 35 new twitter followers in about 10 min when someone said something mean to me on Twitter

By: Chris Clarke

Chris Clarke — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:30:19 +0000

Greatest. Linkbait. Ever?

Way to go, Jaffe.

By: Parker

Parker — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:22:00 +0000

Hey Collin –

While I wasn’t on the 2K blogger list, something similar did happen to us at BlogCampaigning – an author of a book wrote a blog post thanking everyone he referenced in said book (including us). This resulted in everyone from that list repeating the list in their own blog posts. We were happy with the increase in rank for a while, but I agree with you: it doesn’t really mean anything.
You can have a ton of links and have your posts repeated and scraped for all their worth, but it doesn’t really matter until people are actively reading and engaging with them.

By: Boyd Neil

Boyd Neil — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:58:05 +0000

Great point . . . Technorati “authority” is meaningless if no one is actually reading your blog. (Full disclosure . . . my blog’s “authority” sucks.) What is important is the discussion your ideas start and the connections made with people who actually like to talk about ideas.

By the way . . . Love your redesign.