Well , its my first post in the blogger crowd . I started blogging nearly 1 month ago and found out
some intersting facts related to blogging . The following post is related to popularity
which is based on reasearch work.



why you should use Alexa and Technokrati for popularity( based on research work)????????

Answer: Researchers have analyzed the dynamics of how blogs become popular. There are essentially two measures of this:

1. popularity through citations, as well as popularity through affiliation (i.e. blogroll). The basic conclusion from studies of the structure of blogs is that while it takes time for a blog to become popular through blogrolls, permalinks can boost popularity more quickly, and are perhaps more indicative of popularity and authority than blogrolls, since they denote that people are actually reading the blog's content and deem it valuable or noteworthy in specific cases.

The blogdex project was launched by researchers in the MIT Media Lab to crawl the Web and gather data from thousands of blogs in order to investigate their social properties. It gathered this information for over 4 years, and autonomously tracked the most contagious information spreading in the blog community, ranking it by recency and popularity. It can therefore be considered the first instantiation of a memetracker. The project is no longer active, but a similar function is now served by tailrank.com.

2.Blogs are given rankings by Technorati based on the number of incoming links and Alexa Internet based on the Web hits of Alexa Toolbar users. In August 2006, Technorati found that the most linked-to blog on the internet was that of Chinese actress Xu Jinglei. Chinese media Xinhua reported that this blog received more than 50 million page views, claiming it to be the most popular blog in the world.Technorati rated Boing Boing to be the most-read group-written blog.

Gartner forecasts that blogging will peak in 2007, leveling off when the number of writers who maintain a personal Web site reaches 100 million. Gartner analysts expect that the novelty value of the medium will wear off as most people who are interested in the phenomenon have checked it out, and new bloggers will offset the number of writers who abandon their creation out of boredom. The firm estimates that there are more than 200 million former bloggers who have ceased posting to their online diaries, creating an exponential rise in the amount of "dotsam" and "netsam" — that is to say, unwanted objects on the Web .

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This is my first post to blogger crowd, though its a second post overall here on Blogger Crowd. As sachin has already written a post as soon as I invited him and even before I could put an introduction on the blog though I put it when I invited Sachin, Vaibhav, Nishant , Ajeet and many more in the invitation email.

Well I am very glad to read all the respectful stuff written by Sachin for me. Well thank you Sachin for writing a Note of thanks. I hope you will keep contributing to blogger crowd and make it achieve for what it has came into existance.

Well coming to the intoduction of BLOGGER CROWD, its a community blog where everyone who writes a blog anywhere on any blogging platform can contribute their ideas and experiences or anything they want to share. So be a part of it. For joining Blogger Crowd click here .

BLOGGER CROWD will provide a link to its members' Blogs. Thanks and be a part of BLOGGER CROWD community.

This is my first post at Blogger Crowd and I am very glad to join Sameer's blog. He has been blogging since 10 months and I have started blogging three months ago. its been a pleasure for me to join and share my views and experiences with other bloggers who are new in bussiness.

I also want to say to new bloggers that please join this community "Blogger Crowd" and share and get ideas and tips from each other. Come on lets make Blogger Crowd a real guide and meeting spot for blogger community.

Once again I want to thanks Sameer who started this community blog and thought that I am eligible enough to be a part of it.