December 19, 2004
DOES IT MATTER?
Graumagus of Frizzen Sparks is mulling over his hits/links discrepancy:
Take me for example, I have "Large Mammal" status. That's pretty far up the food chain. Makes it appear that if I'm not a big dog, at least I'm not a toy poodle either.I get a whopping 75-100 hits a day. Less lately now that I've been in Depress-O-Angst mode about my job and other shit.
Blog Daughter Boudicca gets that or more, and in spurts gets 200+ hits a day, and she's stuck at Marauding Marsupial level. I see her surpassing my hits count before summer (I'm a proud papa! heheh).I think she deserves a higher ranking than me.
If I wasn't crosslinked to so many people because of belonging to The Alliance of Free Blogs, and Blogs for Bush, we'd be swapping pouch grooming tips. If they had three or four more large blogging groups for me to join, I could probably end up somewhere near Higher Being status without getting more than half my hits from personal friends. (NOT why I joined either the Alliance or Blogs for Bush, by the way)
There's a temptation to say that "those links don't count" somehow. But in a way, they do. They show that you're at least participating out in the larger blogosphere, and not just typing at yourself. It means that, at some point, you made yourself worthy of that link, even if it's not currently driving traffic.
If nothing else, consider it as sort of a reward for seniority. You've been blogging for a long time, so the links accumulate.
Or you can think of it THIS way - yeah, you suck, but not so bad that you're being DE-linked.
Those old links are like battle-scars or tattoos. No, they're not fresh & bleeding anymore, but at one time they WERE.
You've EARNED them. Wear them proudly.
Read "The Tipping Point".
It's not the number of links that you have, or even the quality. It's going to be that one or two Big Freaking Links that pushes you into the the Big Time. Or not. If and when you ever hit critical mass is a matter of a lot of factors, but the more links you have, the better your chances that The One will eventually happen. Might be an instalanche, or shout out from Rush Limbaugh, or a kiss on the check from Michelle Malkin, or evem a tie in to Laci Peterson on Inside Edition... or... like most, you could die a cruel blog-death in google-ad poverty.
It's not where you go, or how fast you get there. It's who you meet along the way. Do unto others...
MARTY!!!!
Damn, man, thought you were dead! Got a new bloghome yet?
Anyway, I've READ "Tipping Point", and you're right. It's all about plugging away - however you can - until a maven finds you somehow.
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