Comments on: Ecosystem Changes Unveiled

By: Bithead

Bithead — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 03:22:44 +0000

I would suggest, James, bumping this one ten days from now... I suppose comments will be freeer flowing once consequences from these changes, if any, occur.

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 17:43:12 +0000

So how will the ecosystem evolve? Informal networks? More carnivals? The existing carnivals with higher frequency maybe? All of the above.

And for all those creationists, look at Kent! He is speciating...err is that even a word?

By: McGehee

McGehee — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:18:23 +0000

Well, I seem to have recovered by about 130 places in the ecosystem, which given the adjustment for "formal blogging networks," of which I belong to maybe two, makes more sense than dropping into the #500 neighborhood.

Now if I could just manage to sustain my recent gains in traffic...

By: Arguing with signposts...

Arguing with signposts... — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 05:24:59 +0000

Ecosystem Update

Good luck with all that.

By: Kent

Kent — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 04:47:13 +0000

I don't get it.

A month ago, I had about 62 links, ranked around 4600, and was a Cute Little Rodent.

Two weeks ago, I had about 65 links, ranked around 4000, and was a Slithering Reptile.

Now I find that I have about 56 links credited, rank around 3600, and am now a Flappy Bird.

Me no sabe.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 04:23:22 +0000

Ah...

I think I see what you're getting at now. Because my attention is mostly on the top 50 of the rankings, I'm not looking at the spam blogs. But I imagine most folks are and are happy to have competition with them taken away.

By: N.Z. Bear

N.Z. Bear — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 04:19:51 +0000

Thanks James. Regarding the maximum outbound link limit: Glenn has nothing to fear, because he isn't really an "uberlinker" in these terms at all. His current and average outbound links are way below where I have set the maximum limit.

Anybody who is actually manually blogging and adding links themselves should have nothing to fear --- I'm just trying to prevent folks dumping huge lists of links onto their pages simply because they can...