The search from Swicki just keeps on accumulating interest. Compared to Google searches, it is miniscule, but it seems to appeal to a fair few users every day and over time, I am sure it will actually have some tradable value. Hell, if you can sell old postcards...

The key feature of a Swicki is that it is very web 2.0, user-modifiable search engine. So you can search your blog name for instance, and then add in your own description, proper and informative for future searchers' benefit. I suppose it is a bit like the Technorati WTF feature where you can go to town expounding/expanding on a topic to your heart's content.

To be honest it makes me wonder why people got to The Pisstakers to search. And for pantone? Maybe they want to know the colors of the website to rip it off!!!

Tags: Swicki, search, Technorati

I was looking through a webmaster forum and people were looking for yet more bloody stats counters. As if Google Analytics, and Crazy Egg, Awstats, Technorati, Alexa and Blog Juice and the rest of the unusual suspects aren't enough. Anyway, this freebie logger was recommended so I copied and pasted the code and came up with the widget below.


What made me smile though was the warning that came with it. Initially quite business-like, it soon deteriorates.

Note: If you alter the code above your account will be disabled or we may show ads on your site or a big image that tells everyone you have stolen this counter or we will call you names and take away your birthday.

I changed the font size.

free web counter

Will they call me names? Like Pisstaker, maybe?

Tags: Google, Technorati, stats

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

Did I say yesterday that Technorati top 100 (A-List) ranking isn't necessarily all it is cracked up to be? Well, all change!!!! Now, after careful reconsideration, [irony] I think a spot in the A-list is an underpinning goal of the Pisstakers.

Look, ranked at 57,000 and rising, the blog is worth how much? Extrapolating and multiplying like crazy, if I get to number 57 in Technorati, hey, I might be able to swap the blog for the Taj Mahal, or some other modest abode.[/irony]

So, everyone currently blogging for fun, time to change the chip. There is money in this lark. And lots of it. And them that are currently blogging for money, do as we do - blog for fun and earn your money later - at sell-out time. (End of irony part 2)

Tags: Technorati

According to a pyramid image thingy at Change is good, an A-list blog is one that appears in the Technorati top 100. Languishing at 58,000 and change, that elevated Rank One position seems unattainable to me. After a comment from Hmmm Harry Hnetka, I began to wonder, though, if it is actually worth aspiring to this A-list. Ratings are so open to manipulation, interpretation and statistical masturbation. So I took a quick look through Technorati to see if A-listers provide the best blog posts on the internet.

Favorites

Boing Boing top the list by number of favorites. We did a review of them, a long one, but I don't suppose it was ever read by the boing boing main protagonists. In summary, I rate their posts on all things wonderful, I rate their pioneer status in blogging, and I think their podcasts, in the early days at least, were the worst sound quality ever. The best posts ever, though? Well researched, well-written, but surely nothing you can't read anywhere else - unless I am missing something.

Techcrunch come in at number two by favorite, number 16 overall on the A-list. 377,000 RSS subscribers too! Unbelievable! They must have copied the code from our Feedburner feed? As far as quality blogging, I guess you have to give it to them, they do announce news rather than rehash it. With intros like, This afternoon, so-and-so will release... you have to take them seriously. Their best post in recent times was the convoluted April Fool, taking over Fucked Company. Some of the commenters were seriously fucked over by the con, and came out with some indignant remarks that made them sound more full of A1 crap than the article.

Problogger gives the world of bloggers its pro dose of daily posts. Third most favorited by the Technorati faithful, 68th in the rankings, Problogger is of no interest to anyone except the 71 million bloggers already out there, and the 120,000 joining the blogosphere daily. Is that a big enough audience and are their articles of sufficient quality for them to be taken seriously as an A-lister. I suppose so.

Britneys of blogging

So where are the wolves in sheep's clothing? Which A-listers got famous on the back of link whoredom, with little or no substance to back up their fame? Let's call them the Britneys of blogging!

What is the Daily Kos?

Number 29 in Technorati. Big guns on the A-list. Obviously full of content, but having read a latest post on protest, my first impression is that I think they are a bunch of rude fuckers whose f-word bandying commenters need a lesson in manners. But this is what they think they are about, according to the wiki

A Democratic blog, a partisan blog. One that recognizes that Democrats run from left to right on the ideological spectrum, and yet we're all still in this fight together. We happily embrace centrists like NDN's Simon Rosenberg and Howard Dean, conservatives like Martin Frost and Brad Carson, and liberals like John Kerry and Barack Obama. Liberal? Yeah, we're around here and we're proud. But it's not a liberal blog. It's a Democratic blog with one goal in mind: electoral victory. And since we haven't gotten any of that from the current crew, we're one more thing: a reform blog. The battle for the party is not an ideological battle. It's one between establishment and anti-establishment factions. And as I've said a million times, the status quo is untenable

Good luck with the mission, but really, shouldn't it be called the Daily rant, or the Daily Fucking rant? Too rude for me to revere them, even in their A-list state of the nation!

Perez Hilton dot com

Self styled most hated blog on Hollywood. I didn't think it was too bad, a bit pink, a bit gossip column predictable, so nothing outstanding to write home about as far as content. So why is it an A-lister? Probably the author's name. Can I admit to something? I thought Perez was Paris' sister. What a dumb ass Ed can be sometimes. But there is a clever About section which reveals that she is a he and proud to be inclined towards a she. I am tempted to call myself Paris Pisstaker or Perez Pithtaker. Which do you think will catapault me to A-list status quickest?

Rank 1 in Technorati

I really don't know who is number one in the A-list. What I do know, is if you search on Technorati for Rank 1 in Technorati, you might find a mention of the Pisstakers! This is living proof that rank 1 in Technorati probably mean absolutely nothing in terms of quality and credibility, but I imagine it must be good for egos and business if you are included on the A-list?

Time to go back to that story I am writing on Fucked Company taking over the Daily Kos. They are thinking of calling it Fucked Kos of the A-List Company we Keep. Do you think it has potential?

Tags: Technorati, A-List

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

Like all clever ideas, which the MyBlogLog Sunday feature seems to be, according to Say No to Crack and MyBlogLog themselves, there may be more advantages to the idea than meets the eye. In addition to gooey link love and prizes, participants get free info that may be useful for SEO and Search Engine ranking (SERP) purposes.

Back up, what is MyBlogLog Sunday?

MyBlogLog Sunday was one of many goofy ideas floating around The Pisstakers head (quarters.) The process is:

Every Sunday whenever Ed the editor starts blogging, he takes a snapshot of the last 10 visitors on the MyBlogLog widget in the sidebar. He visits each of those ten blogs and does a fun mini-review. Those ten blogs are then eligible to win the weekly prize of the gummi bears and the full blog review. You accomplish that by being the blog to send him the most traffic during the week (MyBlogLog)

- everyone happy.

And on reflection, Ed the klutz is offering one more perk hidden in the mini-reviews

MBL Sunday mini review aids SERP

Instead of just looking at participation in MBL Sunday as an extra link in your Technorati bragging rights, treat it as a chance to see what someone going cold to your blog thinks about it. The smart ass remark is based on a fairly serious look around your blog, and may even throw up a word, phrase or angle you never even dreamed of for SEO purposes.

Like Boing Boing but funnier. (SNTC);

A quick-fire colloquial trip around the world of music, film and boobs...(Billion Dollar Baloney)

So a mention on MyBlogLog Sunday provides free info on keywords, taglines and market research about your "blog feel". This is all useful info to improve your campaign for a higher SERP/ place in the google web search heirarchy.

Pisstakers and MyBlogLog

To me it is very cool when I read that other blogs don't think I am associated with urine - or are they taking the piss behind my back and telling people they wouldn't pee on Ed if his blog were on fire! But on fire The Pisstakers certainly were (by my standards and MyBlogLog community stats at least) last Sunday.




Why not join the Pisstakers at MyBlogLog. It's free and easy, and the community is modestly sized, like Ed.

See you Sunday, MyBlogLog bloggers looking to improve your SERP! And those advantages again? Check out the pros in my contribution in Comments Friday

Tags: MyBlogLog, Technorati

John Chow used his evil streak to questionable effect when he tried to outsmart Technorati with some deceptive pinging software. The bottom line is, he got caught.

Imagine if someone else had pulled the same beat the Technorati ranking stunt. In a short space of time they got found out, played dumb with Technorati, in order to get reinstated - and then admitted to the deception publicly before it came out by mistake.

Keep on reading, dude

Tags: Technorati

Technorati ranks 63 million websites according to link popularity. Apparently the higher up the list you are, the more blogs and sites link to you. The higher your rank, presumably the more popular, useful and wonderful your website. I say bollocks!

Keep on reading, dude

Tags: Technorati