The following is a comment just published to this post about Sitemeter and Spyware.

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Sitemeter users are bailing out at record numbers and the stat counting company has still not posted anything about it in their blog, privacy policy, or public website. In the end this will be a very painful lesson on how NOT to handle your public relations issues.

Since my original post, this blog has received about 250 to 350 visits per day searching for information regarding Sitemeter’s sell out to spyware advertisers. And since that first post, the blogosphere has been working overtime making sure that readers and other bloggers are aware of the devastating decision made by Sitemeter.

The following illustration was posted over at Debbie’s Blatherings.

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My post on Sitemeter’s use of spyware in their tracking code has gained a LOT of attention over the past few days. On average, the post brings about 400 visits a day via search engines and such. It’s clear a lot of peeps are out there seeking questions.

While Sitemeter may not have answers, they at least have a response.

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In only three months of being online, ConservaBlogs.com has jumped into the top 9,000 blogs at Technorati and we’ve gone from 6,000 visits the first month to what is shaping up to be more than 25,000 visits for March.

This growth has allowed me to view some very interesting statistics. It was difficult during the first month because I knew that the stats were skewed due to such small amounts of traffic. Now, however, the stats are large enough to actually be taken seriously.

The most surprising statistic has been the user browsers. Let’s take a look.

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This is COMPLETELY new to me. For someone who spends countless hours surfing the blogosphere, I don’t know why it’s taken so long to discover and enjoy this new social network.

MyBlogLog is a new blogging community service that brings bloggers closer to each other by building networks of information that is compiled and made readily available via user accounts.

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The last month has been a wild ride for ConservaBlogs.com. We now host more than 50 blogs and have only been up and running for less than 8 weeks. Not bad for a guy who has spent $0.00 advertising dollars and very little time marketing the product right?

On top of the success we’re having with traffic and bloggers, our Technorati rank seems to quickly be on the rise. In fact, I’ve been quite stunned with how fast we’ve moved into the top 20,000 blogs. I’m really not sure what this means for us because it appears as though even the top 10,000 means virtually nothing as far as extra traffic. But considering the fact that Technorati tracks millions upon millions of blogs and we’re in the top 20,000 I think we’re doing well.

But how did we get there so fast? Just 6 weeks?

Oddly enough, our homepage URL, www.conservablogs.com, is getting credit for links coming in to blogs on sub-domains. When you look at the link list for ConservaBlogs on Technorati, you’ll find that a majority of the links are pointing at sub-domains or blogs on sub pages, yet the homepage still gets credit.

Most of our bloggers have their blogs claimed with Technorati, so it’s easy for us to compare the links and see that they line up to an exact number. For example, Publius Forum, one of our most active bloggers, recently moved from blogger to ConservaBlogs. When he contacted all of his link partners or bloggers who had him in their blogrolls to change the URL, both his new blog AND the homepage of our site got credit for the links.

So it’s clear that blog hosts and networks are going to do quite a bit better as far as rank with Technorati. Or at least, they’ll be able to move up the rank ladder much quicker than any normal, stand alone blog.

Interesting. Interesting indeed.

-Eric Odom
ConservaBlogs.com

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