haha awesome man! influential Tim.

awww c’mon, Cam is kicking your arse, and even scott is ahead of you… pull your finger out and get up the ranks. :)

Maybe you need to start photographing your belly?

yeah, I have seen this for a while… the scoring is a bit strange and it fluctuates a lot..

you have usually been floating around 90’ish for a while there Tim.

This could be a good drinking game or something? Whoever drops behind has to down a six pack?

@chez – yup, more belly will get him back into the 90’s

I wouldn’t be too concerned over the stats, the way it works it all out it a bit all over the shop, you can have a no active blog and still rank high, its basically on the number of technorati trackbacks and localised AU alexa rank. Lots of Trackback love and you go rocketing up.

@chez: I have no idea what you’re talking about…

@scott: Drinking game, says the man climbing the ranks faster than all of us. I say whoever climbs gets to down a six pack!

@gary: So ya telling me I should be adding trackbacks?

@Tim you need people to trackback to you, so you need trackbacks activated on this blog… or pics of a naked paris… ;)

Well I’m not 100% sold on the value of trackbacks as I very rarely follow them, so I don’t think I’ll bother adding that functionality (and the spam protection that would need to go along with it). I think a more useful addition would be a “websites linking to this” based on google’s indexing.

There are many different metrics that could be added to refine the index. Unfortunately the time required to collate the information is more than I have available each week (the list takes 2-3 hours as it is).

The reason the list fluctuates is (more than not) a function of Alexa. A surge of traffic affects the “score”, but then it normalises over time.

Congratulations on your inclusion anyway, Tim.

Thanks for the explanation and congratulations Meg!

Google trackback is an interesting idea

But wouldn’t this requre an equal amount of spam monitoring given the poor and radom linking out there? Particularly if lots of people begin to trackback this way (including the spammers!)

Sure, but that sort of spam requires more work (they have to set up a site linking to my articles). It won’t last a hugely popular blog (where their effort would justify the result), but it’d be enough for now (I don’t think anybody would bother). You could also add an approval process as it doesn’t exactly have to be timely.