The Internet isn?t as organized as say the NFL or Miss America. To know who?s ?winning? requires some amount of research into a few things:

1) on what are blogs ranked?

2) how do you track that stuff?

3) who?s winning?

4) how much do we care?

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This is Part 1 ? On what are blogs ranked?

The current standard for ranking blogs is Technorati (http://www.technorati.com). As of June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs. Technorati is THE ranking system for blogs. So let?s check it out. Technorati measures a blog on:

#1 ? Technorati authority

#2 ? Technorati rank

Authority is the number of blogs linking to a website in the last six months.
Rank is calculated based on how far you are from the top.

If you click on a technorati link for a blog you find out both.

http://www.technorati.com/blogs/niltomil.com

You can see that NiltoMil.com has an Authority: 8 and Rank: 709,835. The lowest ranked blogs, those with no authority, are 4,704,172.

Blogs can be ranked on Google but you have to take into consideration keywords then and your results will vary. For ?microstock blog? NiltoMil is ranked #4. For ?microstock blogger? though, we are #1. You can use Google to determine a lot about your rating in that system but Technorati gives you an exact placement.

SEO & Technorati, Part 1
SEO & Technorati, Part 2
SEO & Technorati, Part 3
SEO & Technorati, Part 4