A while back I visited Harry Hnetka's humor site and he posted a widget that shows how popular his blog is. I felt degraded in comparison to the impressive score on Hmmm's medal. I had to console myself with the fact that he is a witty guy with a lot of SEO under his belt, so he deserves to shine.



And then I was perusing another amusing blog, this time from Claire Pitt, who, coincidentally, was simultaneously blogging about our gummi bear contest for MyBlogLog Sunday. On comparing her medal to mine, I realised that a 4.2 makes Claire a BJ goddess, and momentarily my self confidence was dashed.



I got another Blog Juice smack in the popularity nuts, pardon the analogy, when I read how the Blog Juice ranking is arrived at. Talk about holey stats. Technorati ranking + Alexa ranking + Bloglines popularity? + number of inbound links = Blog Juice rating. I am not worried about having such an inadequate amount of juice for blogging, but I am saying...

Alexa relies on a dodgy tool bar used (and manipulated?) exclusively, almost, by webmasters, not real people

Technorati was gamed easily in 2004, & the 2000 bloggers trickery continues

Who are Bloglines and who cares about incoming links?

Bah humbug. Funny and popular people everywhere, enjoy your own 100% pulp, I mean Blog Juice medal, and fellow upstarts, relax!

It has been hard accepting that I languish in the nether regions of the Blog Juice funny heirarchy - but I will survive, maybe. Just throw money, that should console me.