Comments on: New Tool for Checking Links to your Blog Posts http://selfmademinds.com/200706/new-tool-for-checking-links-to-your-blog-posts/ Sharing lessons learned in business and online marketing Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:21:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Andy W http://selfmademinds.com/200706/new-tool-for-checking-links-to-your-blog-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-11666 Andy W Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:58:14 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200706/new-tool-for-checking-links-to-your-blog-posts/#comment-11666 I have a new blog but have so far only written 7 posts (albeit lengthy posts). I am now working on driving traffic to it - I get quite a bit but very few comments are left. Any way to give it a quick boost? Or is it just a case of being patient? I have a new blog but have so far only written 7 posts (albeit lengthy posts).
I am now working on driving traffic to it – I get quite a bit but very few comments are left. Any way to give it a quick boost? Or is it just a case of being patient?

]]> By: How we got 30000 visitors in Week 1  »Technology News | Venture Capital, Startups, Silicon Valley, Web 2.0 Tech http://selfmademinds.com/200706/new-tool-for-checking-links-to-your-blog-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-1827 How we got 30000 visitors in Week 1  »Technology News | Venture Capital, Startups, Silicon Valley, Web 2.0 Tech Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:07:00 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200706/new-tool-for-checking-links-to-your-blog-posts/#comment-1827 [...] Self Made Minds I reckon Patrick has come up with a winning tool here and I must admit I do have the feeling of [...] [...] Self Made Minds I reckon Patrick has come up with a winning tool here and I must admit I do have the feeling of [...]

]]> By: Paul. http://selfmademinds.com/200706/new-tool-for-checking-links-to-your-blog-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-1692 Paul. Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:19:52 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200706/new-tool-for-checking-links-to-your-blog-posts/#comment-1692 Seems like an interesting script. Seems like an interesting script.

]]> By: Patrick Altoft http://selfmademinds.com/200706/new-tool-for-checking-links-to-your-blog-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-1650 Patrick Altoft Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:13:23 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200706/new-tool-for-checking-links-to-your-blog-posts/#comment-1650 Hi Martin, If you check the stats for a blog like TechCrunch you will see that the charts show each blog post as a spike on the graph. Google Analytics reports the traffic to the site and doesn't include any link data. http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/tracker/techcrunch.com/ By offering an easy way for bloggers to see which of their posts are most popular we hope to help our users improve their earnings and build stronger blogs. Hi Martin,

If you check the stats for a blog like TechCrunch you will see that the charts show each blog post as a spike on the graph. Google Analytics reports the traffic to the site and doesn’t include any link data.

http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/tracker/techcrunch.com/

By offering an easy way for bloggers to see which of their posts are most popular we hope to help our users improve their earnings and build stronger blogs.

]]> By: Martin Reed http://selfmademinds.com/200706/new-tool-for-checking-links-to-your-blog-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-1649 Martin Reed Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:38:05 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200706/new-tool-for-checking-links-to-your-blog-posts/#comment-1649 Can't I get all this information from my Google Analytics account? What are they offering that is different, or have I missed something? - Martin Reed Can’t I get all this information from my Google Analytics account? What are they offering that is different, or have I missed something?

- Martin Reed

]]> By: Neale http://selfmademinds.com/200706/new-tool-for-checking-links-to-your-blog-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-1614 Neale Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:32:11 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200706/new-tool-for-checking-links-to-your-blog-posts/#comment-1614 Thanks For refering us to this tool I can see a loto use for it thanks Thanks For refering us to this tool I can see a loto use for it thanks

]]> By: Patrick Altoft http://selfmademinds.com/200706/new-tool-for-checking-links-to-your-blog-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-1608 Patrick Altoft Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:29:15 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200706/new-tool-for-checking-links-to-your-blog-posts/#comment-1608 If we were to try and filter we would need to loop through all the Yahoo link data (which can be 300,000 results +) and then remove any duplicate sites. Since each set of 10 results would use up a single API query its not really practical to do it. A post with 10,000 links would use up 1000 queries every time we checked it, which is about once per day. With 8,000 posts already in our database after day 1 we need to keep the number of queries as low as possible as you can imagine. If we were to try and filter we would need to loop through all the Yahoo link data (which can be 300,000 results +) and then remove any duplicate sites.

Since each set of 10 results would use up a single API query its not really practical to do it. A post with 10,000 links would use up 1000 queries every time we checked it, which is about once per day.

With 8,000 posts already in our database after day 1 we need to keep the number of queries as low as possible as you can imagine.

]]> By: Al http://selfmademinds.com/200706/new-tool-for-checking-links-to-your-blog-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-1607 Al Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:53:12 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200706/new-tool-for-checking-links-to-your-blog-posts/#comment-1607 Could you not just filter and store the count or am I over simplifying way too much. Could you not just filter and store the count or am I over simplifying way too much.

]]> By: Jay http://selfmademinds.com/200706/new-tool-for-checking-links-to-your-blog-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-1600 Jay Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:15:26 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200706/new-tool-for-checking-links-to-your-blog-posts/#comment-1600 I have to admit the charts don't really excite me, but the tip about tracking outgoing links through GA is very helpful. I have to admit the charts don’t really excite me, but the tip about tracking outgoing links through GA is very helpful.

]]> By: Patrick Altoft http://selfmademinds.com/200706/new-tool-for-checking-links-to-your-blog-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-1594 Patrick Altoft Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:06:51 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200706/new-tool-for-checking-links-to-your-blog-posts/#comment-1594 The reason I created the tool is because Technorati doesn't offer the same functionality or charts. Clicking on the charts offers the ability to drill down into the data in a way that Technorati will never offer. The link data provided by Yahoo is far more in depth than Technorati as Yahoo tracks the entire Internet, rather than just blogs. If you check a site like http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/tracker/marketingpilgrim.com/ you will see that Technorati really doesn't offer the same data. The reason I created the tool is because Technorati doesn’t offer the same functionality or charts.

Clicking on the charts offers the ability to drill down into the data in a way that Technorati will never offer.

The link data provided by Yahoo is far more in depth than Technorati as Yahoo tracks the entire Internet, rather than just blogs.

If you check a site like http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/tracker/marketingpilgrim.com/ you will see that Technorati really doesn’t offer the same data.

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