After recent controversy with the Top 100 Australian Blogs I am hoping this week’s update will be less controversal. I have decided to show my support by including the Top 100 listing in my site (via OPML file from Duncan Riley) and besides a little bit of outward linky love never hurt anyone.

The idea of how to do a perfect Top 100 has continued to vex me somewhat and none more so than when i discovered i had inadvertantly manipulated my own ranking on Technorati. Technorati works by counting the number of links to a particular blog in the last 90 days and determines the ranking from there. Of course there are far more spectacular ways to increase your technorati ranking but doing so can produce less than the desired technorati result. Of course sites like The Top 100 Australian Blogs uses a more complex method that involves fancy thinking and all a bit beyond my capabilities to understand. I failed maths a couple of years in high school and naturally got a job using maths all day so these things happen.

So its all food for thought and what i am pondering is out of all the blogs out there that are registered on technorati, how many are being manipulated. Spammers are big at creating spam blogs (splogs) so i wonder how many are manipulating technorati rankings? There is money in it since some review sites like ReviewMe, Text Link Ads and PayPerPost include Tecnorati rankings as a criteria advertisers can search on so there is money to be made in it.

Of course it could be argued that i also think too much. People say that a lot but not about my mathematical abilities!

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