I can't stand it any more, the pressure of rankings and linkings and popularity has stopped me from blogging. All I can do now is search the net for stats telling me how little I am read, how low I figure in the heirarchy of blogs. It is quite liberating.

Free from the pressure of writing original content with a sarcastic tongue-in-cheek twist, I am now working out ways to create link farms, and tit-for-tat Technorati favorite schemes. And bring on ways to game ranking toolbars like Alexa. Yay, if I pull it all off, I won't have any readers, but boy, the traffic will be phenomenal.

And to keep track of the decline of my site, I am going to refresh the following page on an hourly basis.



Link Popularity Tool - Instant, online reports of a site's link popularity rating in 6 top search engines, including Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN, and others - FREE! (A score over 5000 makes The Pisstakers vaguely popular already. The future popularity linking orgy looks bright and blog post-less.)

Good luck, thanks for reading my drivel so far. I promise you, there will be no more drivel. Just stats to relate my popularity. Before you leave forever, please do not add my blog address to your technorati favorites link games. I want to be popular off my own bat!!

Tags: Technorati, Alexa

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.

Tags: blogging, MyBlogLog, Technorati, Alexa