Political Blogging Tools
I’m not an expert on how people find your political blog but I am someone that is very curious as to how people find our blog, Papamoka Straight Talk. Like many people that poor their heart and soul into well written pieces, I want to know how people find that well written piece. I’ve tried Technorati and other tools for bloggers to see where all of our works are showing up and with no success lately but I finally found one that actually works. I put up thier service in our sidebar a couple of days ago. It's at the bottom of the side bar for now but I'm thinking I should raise it up a few notches.
For a couple of years I have watched as our Technorati ranking rose to 70 where this site was in the top 100,000 in the world and sank to where it is now at 38 links and wondered how they lost all the links that have actually linked in to Papamoka Straight Talk? How is it that this site is picked up or linked too by Reuters, Chicago Sun, The Wall Street Journal, The Moderate Voice, Crooks and Liars, Gun Toting Liberal, The Left Coaster, Yahoo News, Featured Posts on Memeorandom, Real Clear Politics, Slate Magazine and the list goes on forever but we only have 38 links on Technorati? Today alone the Huffington post linked in? Shocked the hell out of me but it is what it is. Did Technorati change the metrics as to who is a link and who is not because they never told me? I apologize in advance if your link to this site does not show up on Technorati but I do my best to give credit to those that link in. I now find myself using Google Search to find links that has proven more reliable to find your links to this site over Technorati.
Anywho, I love to find links to Papamoka and the contributors that write here and give those sites linking in credit. A lesson I learned over at Gun Toting Liberal. Unlike many other bloggers, we credit back to sites that have linked in on any of our posts. Call me an idiot but I like to thank people for appreciating our work and give them credit for doing so. It would be rude to not do so in my opinion but that is just me. If I have missed your link in from your site then please let me know ASAP in the comment section or by email!
I can’t speak for the folks over at Technorati as to why they don’t count all of the links to this site but I can tell you that I found a live link count that works for this site. I’ve tested it and it works without fail. It is called E-Referrer and it lists all sites that link in to your blog from anywhere. It goes one better by keeping a tally of who is linking in over the last 100 plus days. I put it up in my sidebar and I’m very happy with the product they provide for not so affluent bloggers like me.
I have not been paid by E-Referrer for this post so all of you folks thinking I’m in the tank for them, you are wrong. I don’t do paid posts here at Papamoka. You can however feel free to visit the sponsors and show your thanks for this hat tip for your personal blog. They are the ones that keep this site up. Thank you Google for that!!!
E-Referrer is a great product for your blog and if you would like to know where your readers are coming from then I recommend them highly. My E-Referrer has only been up for a day or two and I’m surprised more than you know who is coming to this site and from where. You can check it out in the side bar or clicking on thier logo above and sign up for the free service for your blog from there. I hope it helps you understand where your readers are coming from and give you some aspect as to how important it is to be political and speak up loud and clear.
Papamoka
For a couple of years I have watched as our Technorati ranking rose to 70 where this site was in the top 100,000 in the world and sank to where it is now at 38 links and wondered how they lost all the links that have actually linked in to Papamoka Straight Talk? How is it that this site is picked up or linked too by Reuters, Chicago Sun, The Wall Street Journal, The Moderate Voice, Crooks and Liars, Gun Toting Liberal, The Left Coaster, Yahoo News, Featured Posts on Memeorandom, Real Clear Politics, Slate Magazine and the list goes on forever but we only have 38 links on Technorati? Today alone the Huffington post linked in? Shocked the hell out of me but it is what it is. Did Technorati change the metrics as to who is a link and who is not because they never told me? I apologize in advance if your link to this site does not show up on Technorati but I do my best to give credit to those that link in. I now find myself using Google Search to find links that has proven more reliable to find your links to this site over Technorati.
Anywho, I love to find links to Papamoka and the contributors that write here and give those sites linking in credit. A lesson I learned over at Gun Toting Liberal. Unlike many other bloggers, we credit back to sites that have linked in on any of our posts. Call me an idiot but I like to thank people for appreciating our work and give them credit for doing so. It would be rude to not do so in my opinion but that is just me. If I have missed your link in from your site then please let me know ASAP in the comment section or by email!
I can’t speak for the folks over at Technorati as to why they don’t count all of the links to this site but I can tell you that I found a live link count that works for this site. I’ve tested it and it works without fail. It is called E-Referrer and it lists all sites that link in to your blog from anywhere. It goes one better by keeping a tally of who is linking in over the last 100 plus days. I put it up in my sidebar and I’m very happy with the product they provide for not so affluent bloggers like me.
I have not been paid by E-Referrer for this post so all of you folks thinking I’m in the tank for them, you are wrong. I don’t do paid posts here at Papamoka. You can however feel free to visit the sponsors and show your thanks for this hat tip for your personal blog. They are the ones that keep this site up. Thank you Google for that!!!
E-Referrer is a great product for your blog and if you would like to know where your readers are coming from then I recommend them highly. My E-Referrer has only been up for a day or two and I’m surprised more than you know who is coming to this site and from where. You can check it out in the side bar or clicking on thier logo above and sign up for the free service for your blog from there. I hope it helps you understand where your readers are coming from and give you some aspect as to how important it is to be political and speak up loud and clear.
Papamoka
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