Notes and Thoughts in a Virtual World

Found an interesting free service while wandering around the internet. That service is provided by Marketleap and allows users to see how popular their website/blog is compared to other websites.

Here's the report for my various blogs:

URL List	Total	Google/ AOL	HotBot	MSN	Yahoo!/ FAST/ AltaVista
www.tv.com/users/mikebriggs/profile.php	1	0	0	0	1
www.Travelleap.com	2	0	0	2	0
michaelbriggs.wordpress.com	5	0	0	3	2
entertainmentuniverse.blogspot.com	92	5	3	21	63
www.popcornpalace.com	585	11	7	305	262
www.spinnakersailing.com	944	15	15	682	232
nationalsbaseballfan.blogspot.com	985	36	36	546	367

The bolded URLs are mine. The first one is my blog on TV.com. As I suspected, no one recognizes or cares about that blog. The second bolded URL is my newest blog over at Wordpress.com that I started to report various interesting things I find around the internet, though mostly use to talk about webcomics. The next one down the list is this blog. I wasn't surprised about the link popularity of the first three, but surprised that my baseball one is almost out of the white Limited Presence (0-1000 references) range. I have one more blog that isn't listed above, both because I didn't have ability to include it and because I don't use that blog anymore, and rarely wrote in it when I did use it.

Yes, as I suspected, it has little in the way of links . . . um, what? I have something like four entries, and it's my most linked blog, and is actually in the next level up (Average Presence) with 2004 links?

URL List	Total	Google/ AOL	HotBot	MSN	Yahoo!/ FAST/ AltaVista
www.Travelleap.com	2	0	0	2	0
www.popcornpalace.com	585	11	7	305	262
www.spinnakersailing.com	944	15	15	682	232
usapeople.blogspot.com	2,004	85	85	4	1,830

Ok, I see, most of the links are from just one website. Strange really.

Well, this was fun, off I go . . .