Comments on: Maybe real topics next month http://walt.lishost.org/2007/08/maybe-real-topics-next-month/ The library voice of the radical middle. Tue, 21 May 2013 16:53:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2007/08/maybe-real-topics-next-month/comment-page-1/#comment-29278 walt Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:25:44 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=615#comment-29278 OK, so “(whatever that means)” was more obscure than it should have been. The Authority number is based on the number of distinct blogs over some period–but given the growth of splogs and various other garbage, I question the meaningfulness of the figure. Even “popularity” becomes more questionable as the number of essentially useless links increases.

Thing is, this blog is just popular enough to be the beneficiary of this nonsense–I’m guessing being in the top 50,000 is now enough to set the sploggers to work, although not as assiduously as if you’re in the top 10,000 or whatever. If you look at my Technorati result, a significant number of the most recent links are splogs–blogs with no original content but lots of ad links.

Clarification: I just checked Technorati. Only one of the links on the first page is a splog, but four or five on the next three pages fall into a similar category–entire posts reposted, with no original content and no apparent reason for being.

]]> By: Dorothea http://walt.lishost.org/2007/08/maybe-real-topics-next-month/comment-page-1/#comment-29277 Dorothea Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:40:29 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=615#comment-29277 I believe Technorati’s “authority” number is simply the number of distinct blogs that have linked to you in the last six months.

]]>