Blogstorm Shows Blogs’ Most Popular Posts

Pretty neat!

I think there’s something wrong with the site. Apparently my blog has no readers….

I have got to teach my mom how to link.

It’s about time!

very cool…i’m going to use this on my blog.

Thanks Michael.

The Flash charts can all be embedded in your sites and we are in the process of creating some widgets to add a list of popular posts to blog sidebars.

All feedback gratefully received, I will personally look at all the blogs that are submitted to make sure the tracker is picking them up properly. It can take a few hours for the link data to start showing.

Patrick

I’m not sure it is working that well.

eg, this page
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?p=http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/19/myminilife-your-embeddable-virtual-world/&bwm=i&bwmo=d&bwmf=u
shows a bunch of urls from the same blog, blackrimglasses are inbound to the techcrunch article

and when I view source from any one of those listed links, it doesn’t show techcrunch at all.
The same issue with some of the other supposed “linking to” pages that I randomly tested.

So I’m not sure the “number of links” entry means much of anything at all, and it appears to suffering hyper inflation.

It doesnt look like the links pages are using the nofollow attribute. Hopefully you wont get a bunch of spam submissions though I guess you guys are looking for as many users as possible.

Pretty neat tool and takes the Yahoo link data a step further.

and further ..
http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/tracker.php
shows the top entry as an “autoblog” post with a ridiculous 398 thousand inbound links. Investigating this example shows most of them are splogs, or semi-splogs, and blogstorm is being fooled by entries like these across their network:
“Other Weblogs Inc. Network blogs you might be interested in” which list this post.

So basically blogstorm can’t tell a real blog from a splog, and can’t tell a real mention from a blogroll mention, and xml feed shown on a blog, or even an advert!

Sorry to be cynic, yet again, about a breathless news post on techcrunch.

Justin: The link data we get is from Yahoo so we can’t really exclude links from splogs without spidering the web ourselves, something which isn’t really feasible for this kind of service.

You will find that the Weblogs Inc blogs get a lot of links to start with and the figures reduce to a proper level after a week or so once the posts are no longer being syndicated across every page on the network.

And yes, we don’t implement nofollow but if the site is being abused then we might take action.

Justin - Yeah, that’s me. breathless over blogstorm.

Patrick, a very warm congrats ..

I wanted to blog about it first, but got hang up with other stuff..

I guess Michael made the most of it

Aw, come on - anybody here knows that these kind of things (like all sites) are an ongoing development. It’s kind of silly to pick it apart knowing fully that all of us with sites launched with limited features, bugs, etc.

At least the IDEA is good. I think a lot of bloggers would get into this type of thing.

“breathless over blogstorm.”

Hey Michael, ok “breathless” is my shorthand for what I really wanted to say which is this, in long form: if you’re going to put up something, like an entry on jobvent, or alexa data on a rising social network, or this one, is it wrong to expect that you do a little basic digging first from a default position of kindly skepticism?
Basically I consider almost every headline as probably an exaggeration (typical secondlife publicity is a choice example). If you don’t dig a bit, then you end up doing unpaid PR.

Justin - this is a service that launched today. I believe the headline is fairly descriptive. Perhaps this just isn’t the blog for you.

This is a very nice and easy tool to use. Very cool!

Two things that annoy me on the site though:

1. Beta in the logo. Self-explanatory.
2. The .co.uk domain name. I’m personally against domain names that are country TLDs and aren’t actually country-specific, but that’s just me

I love the idea - but you lost me at “Go get A Yahoo API key…” Sorry, not signing into two things to get one thing.

If you figure that out, email me - I would love to join… One thing.

Cool stuff, i think it`s very usefull. Thnx )))

@Rob — I had the same response. Got very excited, started filling out the form, got to the php page and figured “yeah, I’ll put in that much effort” then got to the API key and figured “nah, not that much.”

@Blogstorm / Patrick — Gimme a shout at eric at MyBlogLog dot com and I’ll hook you up with someone at YDN. Maybe you can get them to lift the limits.

Full of enthusiasm I went to try and fill our the form. I would have even gone farther than Rob and Eric, but… surprise, I cannot upload any php code to my blog as I don’t host it…

Too bad that this does not have a less intrusive mechanism.

Yet the idea is not bad.

devils advocate for the simple man, —- what benefit would I receive from this? Or what can I do with it that would benefit readers and visitors?/???

Kind of annoying that you have to install a php script on your server. Still not clear on why this is necessary. I’m not thrilled about installing others’ scripts on my servers without much more detail.

Awesome! Although I have a pretty good handle on all of my top entries, this tool could be useful in helping me get specific information.

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