Comments on: Blogstorm – Track Your Blogs’ Most Popular Posts

By: Siddharth Thakkar

Siddharth Thakkar — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:52:27 +0000

Wow! This one is an interesting application. I am sure it would be useful; but it is also an amazingly addictive one.

Cheers!

By: BlogStorm

BlogStorm — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:57:51 +0000

Hi Everyone,

The key aspect of our service is that we monitor your RSS feed each day and measure the links to your blog posts, rather than just tracking every page on your site like Google Webmaster Central.
Hopefully bloggers will see our tool as an additional way of monitoring their progress and use it as well as Webmaster Central.
We offer your link data as a toolbar button and an RSS feed so it is nice and quick to check your stats.

Next week we will be releasing a plugin to display the data in your Wordpress dashboard.

Patrick
Support email: patrick@blogstorm.co.uk

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:19:16 +0000

I’m just starting out with blogging and this gives me an idea of how much I still have to learn!

Beth

By: DIY PR Builder

DIY PR Builder — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:12:47 +0000

Hi Darren,

I use the Google Webmaster Tools to track the links to my blogs and website. I submit a new sitemap every week and when Google updates their numbers they tell you how many links you have both internally and externally.

I think it’s a much better indication because it comes right from Google and what I care about is what Google recognizes as credible links.

It is way more valuable than the link:www.mydomain.com. For example: link:www.evancarmichael.com generates 368 results but in my Google Webmaster Tools, Google recognizes 118,343 internal links and 3,835 external links. They also break down the external links by individual page or post which is extremely useful in knowing which topics are popular.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:37:21 +0000

This is a prety cool service im excited to see how it competes with technorati’s service. Yeh Darren you got a lot of links to your site lol.

By: Ramkarthik

Ramkarthik — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:02:25 +0000

This is great.But can we find the stats for blogspot blogs also?Im really amazed after seeing the stats of this blog.Awesome.

By: Russell Coker

Russell Coker — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:56:02 +0000

I started signing up for that service and stopped when I got to the bit about installing a PHP script on my server. According to the blogstorm people “The reason behind our requirement for a php script is that Yahoo (the place we get our link data) only allows 5,000 queries per day from our website” so they want to use my web server to perform queries on their behalf.

I’m not sure whether this 5000 query limit is due to Yahoo terms of service (in which case it would be unethical for me to help them circumvent it) or due to them not wanting to pay for better access. In either case I won’t be using their service.

By: Amit

Amit — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:59:50 +0000

The number of posts doesn’t matter, it depends on how ‘popular’ your posts are! no matter if its a new blog or has only 30 posts :)

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:23:57 +0000

Using the Google webmaster console, you can see which pages/posts are deemed the most important by Google and also see which pages/posts have the most links.

By: 16 Laws of Women in Photographs

16 Laws of Women in Photographs — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:16:07 +0000

Awesome Darren. Unbelievable the number of links you get, especially on the group writing project. Over 1000 if I read it correctly!

By: A Tentative Personal Finance Blog

A Tentative Personal Finance Blog — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:02:17 +0000

I don’t think I even have enough posts for it to track… almost 100.

By: Amit Agarwal

Amit Agarwal — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:44:22 +0000

compare their citations data technorati – there’s some difference.

technorati.com/chartimg/problogger.net?days=30&height=200&width=400

By: BeachBum

BeachBum — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:51:42 +0000

Technorati does something like this but not all on one graph like that.

Obviously a higher traffic blog will have a nicer chart to look at.

Keep up the good work, I enjoy reading your posts!

Michael