Here we go once again. This month, the famous Ms Marmite Lover finally enters the fray, Lizzie Mabbot dethrones Chris Pople to go top and the highest climber is The Graphic Foodie to number 13, up by 12. Congratulations to all. Isn’t it more exciting watching the list change leaders now that the all powerful WOM (it is still all powerful, and no list is going to change that right?) has vacated the top spot?
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Tags: 2010, food blogs, gastronomy, july, rankings, wikio
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That’s kind of weird. I wrote to them recently asking why my blog was number 950 in the rankings and a couple of weeks later it’s in the top 20? Something a bit nefarious about this…
Nothing has changed, still same links, still same stats…
I wrote to them because to be frank, I found it odd that my blog was so low down in the rankings and much lesser known blogs were in the top 20. My other blog The English Can Eat was something like number 5,500!!!
You are a techie Kang, do you believe in all this?
Ultimately it’s all rubbish. You write and photograph and tell your stories because you want to, you have something to say…
msMarmitelover – Yeah I’m not entirely sure how it works to be quite honest. I am led to believe that in addition to counting the feasible beans…there are also ‘magic numbers’ which Wikio uses in their algorithms to determine the rankings. Although to be fair, all ranking methods are abit wonky anyway as they can vary widely depending on which they view carries more/less weight. Like for example Compete.com , Alexa and even Google’s own PageRank algorithms all vary differently.
Yeah, ultimately this is all for jokes really, I suppose people write because they have an opinion to voice, but also I think more importantly, that they feel they have something of value to add to the public domain.