Measuring blogs the VirginWorlds way

It seems that mapping the MMO blogosphere and ranking and measuring it is all the rage. Prognosticator from VirginWorlds.com (an excellent MMO news portal by the way) has come up with his own method. He simply types the MMO blog's address into Google, and sees how many hits he gets. Wow, apparently Google has just under 10,000 links to me, landing me on rank 19 of that particular list.

Now this is a method I can accept, within the obvious limits it has: You have first to draw up a list of what you consider to be a MMO blog, before you can rank them on a list. If you didn't know about a particular MMO blog, this method isn't going to find it.

I wish he hadn't called this a "pervasion rating", that is too likely to be misread as something completely different. :) But apart from that, "pervasion" hits the nail on the head, because your number of incoming Google links is a mix between your popularity and how long your blog has been around. Apparently 3 years is already a long time in the blogosphere, which explains a good part of my pervasion rating.

Anyway, whatever you think of the rating, the thing makes for a rather good list of popular MMO blogs and sites, which is already useful enough.
- posted by Tobold @ 12:11 AM Permanent Link