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08.22.05
IceRocket Tests Out Link Tracker For Blogs
 By
Jason Lee Miller
Asking the question, "how many bloggers love me?" may be a self-esteem reducing exercise, but IceRocket thinks you should know. For IceRocketeer Mark Cuban, the more commonly used method for rating a blog's popularity, counting the number of links to it, is lacking. A truer method is counting the number of visitors, which is why IceRocket is working out the kinks in its new linktracker feature.
"[I]f a blog that no one sees links to your blog, does that make your blog more popular? Of course not, it just means that one person (at least we hope its a person and not splog) knows about your blog and has offered a link," muses Cuban on BlogMaverick.
It was this type of thinking that led to an experimental development he calls linktracker that counts the number of people, in real time, who have linked to a particular blog post (assumedly, not the entire blog). An update is in the works that will also enable a running count of how many people have actually viewed that particular blog post.
Those wishing to use the feature have the option of the PHP Server Installed Version, or the IFrame based version that requires CSS.
The IceRocket crew is also working on the possibility of offering code that allows bloggers to pick a category that they are looking to be ranked in (Personal Diary, Entertainment, et cetera).
About
the Author:
Jason L. Miller is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business. |
