Remember this from a post I made earlier on this morning:
The number one blog should be Dakota Voice. But there seems to be a big problem. Pat Powers let it be known that being linked to is an important element to the Blognetnews ratings. I have noticed that my linkage to Dakota Voice posts is not being recorded by Blognetnews. [Note I have just linked twice.] I have sent an email regarding this to Cory Heidelberger. Who is listed as the administrator. I do not believe that this is specific problem is some kind of conspiracy, just an innocent technical over sight.
And I was right, Cory responds with this:
I got an answer sooner than I thought. Tyler the tech dude at BNN says they were only counting links to Bob's old URL, "http://dakotavoice.blogspot.com". The system wasn't counting links to the current "http://www.dakotavoice.com." Tyler says they've updated the database, and the links should now be counted. See if that works!
Thanks Cory, now how much did that affect the rating of Dakota Voice? This calls into question Pat Powers being number 1. And it also goes to show that the Blognetnews rating system can be gamed by just two bloggers. Blognetnews is a great service and I will continue to use it, but its blog influence rating index has some problems.
More on that and the reaction of Pat Powers and Todd Epp to my analysis later.
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