Argh

I'm getting obsessed with blog hits again.

My Technorati rank dropped and I actually cared before asking myself why.

Not why it dropped. Why I care.

I'm fairly certain that it's dropped and may well continue to do so because of all the adverts I'm writing.

My Google rank if I'm to believe other obsessed-with-their-ranking types may drop as well and really, that's the number that matters. Google rank is much like social status. It grants access to a number of things that are all based on making money.

So in an effort to curb my unhealthy behaviours somewhat, I'm heading over to Technorati and pulling my blogs down asking them to remove me from their directory.

I've learned a lot in the past couple of months about blog rankings though I'm far from being an expert. Keeping with the social status comparison, the more people that know you --the more your blog is worth. Mutual linking is a good thing if you are both high-ranked. If you are lower-ranked being linked to a higher-ranked blog will pull you up. Lower- ranking blogs can have a negative ranking effect on the high-ranking blogs. And there are a lot of folks out there that are rabid about linking.

The blogosphere seems to morph in a much more accelerated fashion here in the throes of Web 2.0. Perhaps that is due to all the  scoring-keeping that's being done.

I dunno. I'm just going to keep plugging away.