The Knitting Fiend

Top five knitting blogs
as ranked by the google bot.
Does no one visit?

Knitting Blogs

This is really weird! Really weird! The “objective” graph above supposedly says I get almost as much traffic as The Yarn Harlot. In fact, near Christmas, I got more!

As it happens, I know The Yarn Harlot gets more traffic than I do. How do I know? Well, she linked me once, and when visitors clicked on the link, I got more traffic in two hours than I normally get in a day!

Still, believe it or not, advertisers supposedly use these sorts of compete snapshots to figure out how much to pay a blog when they run an ad.

Oh well… (And in case you are wondering, I have done nothing to boost my rank at this service. I didn’t even know compete existed until yesterday. In case your wondering further, yesterday I installed a “compete” toolbar in Firefox, which might boost it a little. )

Ok, so how did I find this ranking service? As many of you know, I periodically check my blog rank, metrics and all the other things that bloggers are all supposed to pretend they don’t care about. I rarely post to brag about it, because the results of checking is usually demoralizing. (My google page rank dropped yesterday. Sigh. . . )

Anyway, since I am an obsessed link and traffic whore, naturally, I found the “Compete” site and their snapshot service. I then googled “Knitting Blogs” and entered the top sites. (Well, most of the top sites. When I tried to check Joe’s traffic, I found Compete won’t report traffic for individual blogger blogs.)

Anyway, I entered these knitting blogs: The Yarn Harlot, Wendy Knits, Mason Dixon Knitting, Knit Sisters to see how their traffic compares to mine.

Then I looked at the graph and “Whoa!” “The Knitting Fiend” supposedly gets more traffic than most of those other knitting blogs! Yet, those blogs actually get hundreds of comments a post, sell books and some of the authors tour the country.

I must be “the unknown nameless faceless mega knitting blogger!”

(Oh, if you click the image, you’ll arrive at Compete’s site. If you can “compare”– if that’s the right word– blog traffic for any blogs you like. Then return and report back! We want to know if you get more traffic than The Yarn Harlot!

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Wendy noticed I was tracking an incorrect URL for her site. I’ve corrected. So, at least now Compete shows she gets some visitors. (We all knew this though!)

I was visiting Cass Knits and she described a way I could bribe reward people to post comments. I’d like more comments, so I implemented the trick. From now on, if knitters (or anyone) post comments on any of my posts, Google will “count” the link and increase the page rank of your knitting blog.

Cass also provide a list of other Wordpress blogs that have instituted the trick, and if you visit their blogs, and comment, you can improve your page rank even more! (Wow!)

What’s the scheme? It’s called joining the D List. There are basically two steps: (more…)

As many of you know, I’ve been fooling around with and periodically reporting on blog money making schemes.

I know most of you are uninterested in the details of the mega-money-making scheme, but based on what I have learned, I want to warn regular readers that there will be a format change: I’m planning to entirely split the haiku’s from the advertorials and make liberal use of (more) tags.
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