You Must Be This Tall to Ride This Ride

Power 150 Creates New Entry Requirements, Stiffens Others

Posted by Charlie Moran on 10.09.08 @ 06:28 PM

Ever since we introduced the easy-to-use submission form on the Power 150, the amount of daily submissions we've been receiving has exploded. On the one hand, this is great. The submission process is now streamlined and there's less pretension of political jockeying or other nefariousness for people to get themselves in. With more and more blogs now -- we've just about doubled since Ad Age took it over from Todd -- our little list is getting more attention than ever.

However, with all this growth comes some pains. We've also gotten more bogus submissions than ever -- thank you, we're full up on porn and cell phones already! -- and far more genuine submissions than we can get around to adding in a timely manner. So, in the interests of all involved -- including ourselves, of course -- we're putting up a small barrier to entry for new blogs. Why? We'd like to speed up our process of blog additions. By imposing this new limit, blogs that are sufficiently established -- at this point, a new blog that makes it past our barriers will land around the 600 rank, so we don't think we're setting the bar unnecessarily high -- can get listed quicker and we can spend more time improving the service than performing lots of time-intensive vetting.

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Help Us Help You by Helping Us

It Is Your Blog, After All

Posted by Rahmin Pavlovic on 08.24.08 @ 06:14 PM

The internet -- being the dynamic place that it is -- is wrought with frequent changes and updates. Websites often find a new home; technology for things like RSS feeds are often updated; names of products often evolve; and search engines are -- despite otherwise being the shining beacons of technology that they are -- often a few steps behind, or may be indexing things in a way you may not expect.

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How to Make Friends With Technorati

A Few Tips on Making Sure You Have the Right Score

Posted by Charlie Moran on 08.12.08 @ 04:08 PM

With all the emails we've been getting about Technorati issues, we're starting to feel a bit like Santa, except, you know, the Santa that everyone hates, aka Don Imus. So we thought we'd save all of us some time and also shine some light on why some people's scores have been dropping mysteriously.

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New Metric, FAQ and Submission Screen

How our Makeover Affects You

Posted by Rahmin Pavlovic on 06.06.08 @ 10:41 AM

After a long season wearing the same outfit, the Ad Age Power 150 puts on some new clothes.

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Technorati API Problems

Or, Why I Dropped 100 Points in a Day

Posted by Rahmin Pavlovic on 06.05.08 @ 06:18 AM

Every morning (at about 4am EDT) our spider crawls the list of Power 150 blogs, fetches a variety of rankings for each, totals them all and then scrunches them down into a nice, friendly score. (Hooray, score.)

The last couple of days, however, Technorati's Bloginfo API has been choking during the update. On Tuesday, June 3, we received nothing for Technorati Rank, Authority or inbound links. However, on Wednesday, June 4, Rank was the only metric to barf.

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Welcome to the Power 150 Blog

... Now Get Out

Posted by Charlie Moran on 06.04.08 @ 03:26 PM

Since we started the Power 150 less than a year ago, we've made subtle and not-so-subtle changes along the way, and we've done our best to let our bloggers know about what's been going on. However, sometimes there's smaller tweaks or other service updates that we'd like to keep everyone -- both bloggers and readers -- abreast of, so we're starting this blog.

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