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Are these little chicklets of value or do we put them on our blogs to stroke our egos?
There are some changes going on with BlogTopSites. Everyone is to update their code to point to the new URL for the site. Because so many sites haven’t done this I’ve noticed a significant bump in the rankings on my sites with the BlogTopSites Code. In fact I currently have 4 blogs in the top 100.
Not bad for a hyperlocal blogger in Tucson. But other than stroking my ego over having accomplished this feat which I have no control over what good is it? A link back? I think it comes under the heading of link exchanges since my chicklet is a link to them and the listing in the directory is a link back to the blog. Again I’m left asking “What is the value?”
From a conversation this morning about the value of Blog Top Sites
“we all have different audiances, different market sizes, some blogs are national, some local , some small town, some big city”
This means even the rankings themselves have little or no value. It is based on traffic not on effectiveness of your blog.
Recently I had huge bump in positioning going from in the high 80’s to the 50’s and 60’s in ranking. Upon checking my Hittail search results I found a blog about Apartments had put a reference to a post I had written over a year ago showing an old milk delivery box built into a house. I got hundreds of hits from that reference.
The post had nothing to do with Tucson Real Estate. It was a kind of human interest post and someone picked it up for the blog post on unusual thing you find in old apartments. The net effect was a huge jump in the rankings.
This leaves me wondering why do I have BlogTopSites and BlogTopLists chicklets on my blogs?
Can anybody give me a reason why I should keep them on my blogs? Or are they just another leak for juice which should be plugged?
