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I've been thinking about blogs, and I think I might have come up with a 'theory' about the way they work.
Basically, It's a 4 class hierarchy.
A-class blogs such as engadget make over $1,000 a day on ad revenue, have an alexa rank >2,500 and a readership of more than 3 million. All together there are about 250 of them. These A-Class blogs all link to each other's posts, with each post getting ~100 or so inbound links. So, once you are reading an A blog you end up reading other A blogs: unintentional webrings.
Usually, these A-class blogs were either first to fill their niche [drudge], or share information nobody else has [huffpost], [dailymail]. They have round the clock staffing, release a new post every 1-2 hours and have active communities. The readers hate change and will not tolerate a cease in posting activity, or a change in posting style.
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The next class is B blogs. These ones usually get ~10 inbound links per post, have an alexa rank of ~10,000 and a readership of <1,000,000. Often they were first in their niche, but the niche is small [hackaday]. Other times, they are just small humor or porn sites such as [areyouup]. With about ~500k daily pageviews these blogs make about $8,000 per month. A decent chunk of change, but all and all it is still for the most part, a boring full time job.
About 1,000 such blogs exist, and they are mostly content aggregators rather than content producers.
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Any blogs which either try to imitate B class blogs are C class ones. Typically these are irregularly updated, have minimal readership, community or ad revenue. Since the already small niche is filled by a B class blog, there is no room for growth unless the blog consistently features content that isn't found elsewhere. Even then, it's a gray area.
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Class D blogs are the typical housewife/maker/diy/craft blogs. They have zero readership, but they are by far the best when it comes to interesting content. Unfortunately most of the curators never tip A-Class blogs, so class D blogs have no incoming links and thus remain in the darknet. Stumbleupon and reddit are the only ways to find them.
I wish I had some sort of script that would crawl these blogs and count links (much like google does). By creating a database of the links and where they go to, a 'network map' can be made. Such a map probably would be a tight ring of A-Class blogs, followed by a larger, less dense ring of B class ones. There would be few connections between the two, but both would end up having a rats nest of outbound links connecting to the D class blogs. C class blogs would essentially just be random blips in the middle of nowhere.
What is neat though, is that an estimated 90% of the internet is darknet: pages with absolutely no inbound links. Huge amounts of information about damn near everything, yet undiscoverable even by google. 4HV is a prime example with a good 85% of this forum being part of the darknet; viewable only via the broken search function.
Sometimes these pages are kept intentionally hidden, as is the case with the onion network. Information that not discoverable by search engines but can be found by directories [tor needed] is called the 'deep web', but that is a discussion for another time.
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The good news is that, if you own one of these D class blogs (as most of us do ) then obsessively posting on forums and mail lists, including a link to your site/blog in your signature, is quite a good way to get lots of inbound links and boost your Google page rank.
Try googling your own name and see how far up the results your actual website is. Well, assuming you have a consistent online identity that's related to some single name, which is another thing to think about. If you use different nicknames in different places, that's breaking up the search results.
You can install Google Analytics on your domain and see how well these tactics are doing for you.
You're missing a few. The E class blogs are for people that use blogs continuously to test what HTML works on there (that do not know how to use Notepad). Then there are the F class blogs in which people make them, think that they are going to keep em alive, and let them die after about 3 days or so.
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How about wave blogs activated by key phrases secreted in all the other blog types, and appearing as a function of time of day, date, sunspot numbers, and vanishing just as fast.
Is the internet finally thinking? And how would you know if it is ?
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radiotech wrote ...
How about wave blogs activated by key phrases secreted in all the other blog types, and appearing as a function of time of day, date, sunspot numbers, and vanishing just as fast.
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) then obsessively posting on forums and mail lists, including a link to your site/blog in your signature, is quite a good way to get lots of inbound links and boost your Google page rank.
