Ah, how long ago it seems; geological ages ago, fast-vanishing in the rearview mirror of the hurtling cosmos. And yet it was only yesterday that I was the most popular blog of the half-million blogs on WordPress. Today I’m #52 #91. Sigh.
Sic transit gloria bloggy. At least I’m up to 65,000 59,000 on Technorati.
Keith Olbermann, you’ll always have a special place in my heart. A place closer, perhaps, to the part I use to play poker with than the part I use to store actual affection in, but that could all change over drinks sometime. Call me. Although this was far from your finest rant, it was worth a cool three thousand hits in 24 hours.
Salon, I’m going to have to start reading you more often. Link to me again and I may blogroll you; we can work something out. Have your pixels call my pixels. (If my guess is right they follwed me from a Gawker post about Salon’s disingenuous celebrity uterus coverage {gee, even Salon checks their trackbacks; even famous people like to hear what others are saying about them} and on which I blogwhorishly dropped a link to my own blog post about the infamous and unnameable Cthulhu ultrasound. Then they poked around until they discovered Keith. But this is just a theory, and we all know what the mainstream press thinks of Chtulhu-TomKat-BushBashing theories).
Mere moments ago I was linked to in DirtySpoke‘s review of Anal Amy. We shall see if this is better than Olbermann, hitwise. UPDATE: two hits. That would be a no, by a factor of 10 to the third power.
I’m going to let someone Catholic explain all this to Sister Mary Martha. Volunteers?
And in a special bonus section tonight, we’ll answer some questions that popped up via the Search Engine Referrals.
- Yes, Vic’s diner at the corner of Main and Cordova is closed. No idea when/if it will reopen, but I already miss their sweet Filipino spagetti (sic). Starting December 1, drown your sorrows in Pat’s Pub, where they’ll be serving their own microbrew. Tonight is Redneck Wednesday, with country rock on the stereo and Bud and Jack Boilermakers for $3.75. Apparently the Pacific up by the porn theatre is going to be joining the ranks of microbrewers; hey kids, it’s not just for gourmets anymore!
- Kimveer Gill is still dead. Time to deal with it; put the black candles and athame down and back away slowly.
- Steve Irwin also dead. Film will not be shown at eleven, nor at any other time.
- The Blackzilla video here is NOT the one you’re looking for, people.
- Lucy Gao still worth a half-dozen hits a day. Someone needs to be looking at freshening their newsgathering methodology.
- Beautiful Agony Free Samples Not Here!
And now we return you to your regularly scheduled Communal Anarchist, Cthulhoid, short attention span Canuckistani blog.
raincoaster 
Hey, I know I’m way way down there near the WordPress cellar, but I would love to know how you got your WordPress ranking. I’ve looked through the forums and the faq and cannot find anything about WP rankings. Is it available to us mere mortals or only to the WP Blogging Goddesses?
You’re not looking hard enough. Type Blog of the Day and Top Blogs or Top Posts into the forum search. Only the top 100 are counted, and they’re all on the Blog of the Day list I linked to, which changes dynamically. Check this thread for inspiration.
How did I get my wordpress ranking? Didn’t I just explain it? I posted the contentious Keith Olbermann rant, which got linked to by Salon.com, which gave me three thousand hits in 24 hours on that one post alone. Besides which, I’ve been blog whoring since February to see how high I can go. Since the switch to raincoaster.com from raincoaster.wordpress.com I’ve gone from consistently in the top 25 WordPress blogs to not absolutely guaranteed to be in the top 100, which is very bloody annoying, and hits have dropped from a norm of about 1400 per day to 900 or so, but I will get back there in time.
Thank you, I was actually interested in the number thingy but your hints about increasing traffic have been noted. I guess I shall have to become a blogging gigolo. My theory that I am nothing until I hit the 1,000 views per day seems to be correct. Whoohoo – I’m about 10% of the way there! Now, who should I gigolo with next :) Desert Sharks were not good enough. I have to find a lowest common dominatrix.
A thousand hits per day will probably get you in the top 100, yes. Best to whore yourself out to Technorati, and read Dr. Mike’s http://pimpmyblog.wordpress.com. Flamewars, my friend, are awesome for hits. See if you can get Tom Cruise to hate you and you’re golden.
Just to note, hits only work if they’re happen if they’re on an article that is 1-2 months old.
I get ridiculous traffic on something I wrote in august and it was a sad day when it became too old and I lost what I thought was my lock on the top 100.
Man, I need to get a life.
Oh, and good move on reading the search results, and writing about it. It’s easier to provide content based on what people are already finding you for. :)
http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-15,GGGL:en&q=i+hate+internet+explorer+7
Hey, we completely missed out on the Canadian Bloggies: http://cba.myblahg.com/
I know: there are at least two of these, and this one looks by far the smaller. I think Darren Barefoot is in charge of the others. I only recognize two of the names on this one, frankly. I did bookmark it for next year (started a file called Blog Awards).
Posting about search engine terms is not only interesting to your readers (seriously, people love this shit!) but it reinforces your ranking in searches for those terms, of course.
Got to disagree about the “hits have to be properly aged” thing. My Olbermann thing was only one day old, and I got to 3900 hits and top blog again with Lucy Gao three days after the story hit the news. But it’s great to have an old post that keeps paying dividends. I got a boost when Borat got beaten up in New York because I’d done an old post about someone defacing his posters and I called it “Borat Attacked” which was, of course, the #1 search on Google the day he got attacked. This is why I wish WordPress templates all had a “next entry” button, so people would stay longer. Quite a lot are too dumb to figure out you click on the name.
Oh dear, what a sad way to try and boost your ratings.
Incidentally, the Filipino ‘spaghetti’ is pancit bhan. Having had several Filipinos as neighbors, I can testify that it’s great stuff. And the way our neighbors fixed it, it was as freewheeling as paella.
Oh, I know enough about Canada to know that winning “Best Canadian Blog” is worth about five hits on a good day. I just like to win stuff. And Steven, you can hardly sneer at my efforts: one notes that you have not posted in a solid month. Your comments section is filling up with spam. You look dead from here.
FFE, I think the Vic’s version was a bastard child of that. I had some in Manila and this was reminiscent of that in its sweetness and the fact there was cinnamon in there somewhere, but it also had basil, which I’m pretty sure didn’t make it into the recipe at Jollybee.
I meant that hits have to be on a “newish” post (1-2 months young) in order for it to count towards the wordpress.com top 100.
Those blog award sites are purely a promotional tool for the blog they’re hosted on. Much like those blog worth widgets.
Ah, right. Me stupid without coffee.
But I think the blogworth widget has a far higher calling: relentless self-gratification when you go in and change the URL to, say, Gawker.com and post you’re now worth $68 mill or whatever. Then you giggle uncontrollably. See Metro for a heinous example.
I thought my blog had disappeared
Yes Steven, your blog went POOF off the blogroll because you haven’t updated it since something like the second week in October. It’s in suspended animation, and I periodically go through the blogroll and weed out the dead ones. Blog and ye shall rise again!