June 1, 2004

May's Top Referrers

On the right side bar is the updated roll of Modulator's 23 top referrers. Number 23 produced 8 referrals compared to 11 for number 20 in Overall traffic was up about 11.5% from April. Statistics are culled from AWStats running on Modulator's server at Hosting Matters.

April churn: 5 blogs dropped and 8 new ones added compared to 6 and 5 in April. There was a 5 way tie for 19th.

Thank you one and all!

Also, I'd like to acknowledge significant referrals from some of the blogosphere's 'service' sites: Technorati, weblogs.com, blogrolling.com, MovableType, Blogdex, Bloglines, blogoshpere.us, Sitemeter, NZ Bear's Ecosystem, Bloogz and Daypop.

April also had a significant increase in the number of pron sites showing up in the referrer logs. Yeccch.

All of the blog rolls except the Base Roll are ordered by most recently updated so be sure to ping weblogs.com or blogrolling.com to push to the top of the rolls. These are certainly the sites I tend to look at first and visitors will see you at the top of the roll as well.

For a brief discussion of Modulator's blog rolls look here.

Posted by Steve on June 1, 2004
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Just so you know, I read you daily -- I use bloglines now, though, so you don't see the link coming off of the Nook. :)

Posted by Scott at June 2, 2004 7:20 AM

I could sense your presence...:)

This exemplifies the downside of the aggregator craze. They are great tools but they hide our readers from us.

I'd like to see all the aggregation programs and sites provide a feature that allows the user to provide a referral site so that, for example, when I read an entry from a site or at minimum when I click over to a site from an aggregator entry it shows my home page or some other identifying info.

I'd also like to see this in browsers for folks that link from bookmarks.

In the meantime, whenever I'm actually reading a site using bloglines I try to remember to link to a site from Modulator's homepage. I tend to use bloglines to catch up with folks that I haven't been to in a while and still do most of my real time reading from my blogrolls.

Posted by Steve at June 2, 2004 10:04 AM
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