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Posted: March 23 2006 at 9:20am | IP Logged Quote Lissa
I thought I'd mention the TTLB Ecosystem in case you haven't heard of it. It's quite silly but lots of fun. It's a ranking system for blogs based on the number of incoming links they have. If you go to the site, you can look up your own own blog in the Ecosystem. It may already be there. If not, you can enter it yourself. (It's free and they don't share your email address with anyone.)

Brand new blogs start out as "insignificant microbes" at the bottom of the ecosystem. As more people link to your blog, you move up the ladder to Wiggly Worm, Crunchy Crustacean, etc. Bloggers like Michelle Malkin and Instapundit, with thousands of incoming links, are "Higher Beings" at the top of the ladder. I notice I'm a Marauding Marsupial today--one notch up from Adorable Rodent, where I've been for some time—probably a result of a bunch of new links I got from a post I wrote yesterday. The rankings change from day to day because TTLB only tracks posts from the past 10 days or so. When people link to you in a sidebar (like my 4Real Learning Blogroll), those links are always part of your score; but when someone links to you within the body of a post (as in, "click here to read this great post at Alice's blog"), those links only stay with your score for while they're on the blogger's front page.

As I said, very silly. But amusing. You can add code to your own blog so that your ecosystem ranking is displayed in your sidebar (scroll all the way down in my righthand sidebar for an example), but that isn't required.

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Posted: March 23 2006 at 10:20am | IP Logged Quote Meredith
I'm a Filppery Fish!! It is quite fun and silly, but a neat way to see what kind of traffic you are getting!

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Posted: March 23 2006 at 2:24pm | IP Logged Quote Dawn
Lissa wrote:
Brand new blogs start out as "insignificant microbes" at the bottom of the ecosystem.


That would be me!

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