Criteria for Top WordPress Blogs
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Yes, basically. With your blog subject, searches are going to be way more important at driving traffic to you than a placement on WordPress top blogs or top posts, so as long as Google is ranking you fairly it’s less of a concern how WP is…although of course it’s irritating when it seems so arbitrary.
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Google seems to like me for a few terms, MSN and Yahoo seem to be ignoring me completely.
The Top Blogs bug is not really arbritrary … It appears to be aimed at specific sites.
If it is a bug then it has been identified and out there for over a month now.
If it is not a bug then it has to be specific targeting of sites that someone with system-wide access doesn’t like.
I don’t know which it is but either way, I believe that it makes those listings innaccurate and dishonest.
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That’s what I meant by arbitrary: some people behind the scenes make up their mind, without reference to any metrics we can determine and with zero transparency, whether a blog is going to be boosted or sunk on the listings.
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Yes, someone with a lot of power around here wrote me to say:
“BOTD is meant to highlight the most interesting blogs, not the ones with highest traffic.”
I am wondering if I should take that to mean something like …
“I do not find your blog interesting so I have decided that it will never show up there (botd) again.”
… could that be correct on that … or am I being just paranoid?
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The thing about subjectivity is, you can always say, “Oh, that person’s been eating too many funny brownies” and subjectively review their judgement. In the absence of other sources of solace, it’ll have to do.
I mean, I turned in a round dozen spam sites I found on Top Blogs; they were NOT that interesting, trust me.
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