How to become one of “Top Posts from around WordPress.com”?
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WordPress actually is partially advertising-driven. WordPress.com itself has google adsense on some of our blogs.
And people will always compete for popularity anyway: that’s just how people are.
There are a lot of people who scoff at such measures and such tendencies; it’s probably more restful for them if, instead of requesting that popularity tools be altered to measure something other than popularity, they apply themselves to developing an impartial measure of quality. The best suggestion I have is to make an arbitrary listing and reviews.
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The Blogs of the Day (BOTD) internals are a trade secret. Plus, I have so much fun reading your hypotheses and I would hate to ruin the fun!
I can let you in on a few things, though. BOTD does not use your blog stats; it has its own counting mechanism. The lists are regenerated every hour from the last 24 hours of data.
The featured post (Blog of the Minute [BOTM]) is usually the #1 post in whatever language you have selected, but we have a way of overriding that whenever we find something worthy of notice.
You can see the rank of a post in the list by hovering over it or viewing the source.
At some point we started sending pingbacks to all of the top posts in the Unfiltered list as it stands at midnight UTC.
BOTD used to be powered by a WordPress.org installation but it is now a regular WordPress.com blog. (You might have noticed when the admin bar started to appear there a few weeks ago.)
Hmm, what other beans can I spill? I think that’s enough for this year. ;-)
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You forgot the most important bit: Can it be bribed, and if so, what kind of BBQ sauce is preferred?
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We are new to this and and do not get out on line too much but if this is okay maybe ya perhaps ya are able to tell me , sence ya live in Austin, if you know A Bob Brown from Beaumont TX just curious ! we are in the North East area Blessed be whiteashK
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Uh, no. No-one here can help you. Asking to track individuals is not okay in the technical help forum.
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Not the right place LPG. You need to be posting in this thread:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=7101&page&replies=203
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