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• 16 Sep 09
  

  Aviva Gabriel

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• 17 Sep 08
  

  Neal Jansons

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• 24 Jul 08
  

  Gabriela Grosseck

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• 13 Jul 08
  

  Michel Bauwens

  the impact that even the biggest of blogs can deliver is lessened. I believe that this is due to a few things

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• 09 Jul 08
  

  Frank Colcord

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  Matt Kramer

  I am a strong believer in the power of linking between blogs, and I still go out of my way to link, especially to peers, to smaller blogs, and to developers of services I write about. At one time, I thought being linked to by the most prominent bloggers could have a significant impact on my traffic. And for a short time, it did. But now, I've seen traffic from other blogs to be driving an ever-declining percentage of visits to my site, swamped by social media tools, aggregation sites, and of course, Google search.
  
  Yesterday, out of curiosity, I downloaded all my visitor logs going back to January of 2006, when I started regularly posting on the blog. While there's no question traffic overall is significantly higher now than it was one year ago or two years ago, the impact that even the biggest of blogs can deliver is lessened. I believe that this is due to a few things:
  
  1. People are relying on aggregators to find them new sources of information, including Techmeme, Hacker News, Reddit, Mixx, FriendFeed and others.
  2. People, especially those who read this site, are relying more on RSS readers, and many have subscribed to so many feeds that they are reading through stories in an effort to clear out their unread items, not clicking the embedded links.
  3. People who actually read blogs on the site (outside of RSS) are clicking through to respond to the author with comments, rather than viewing links.
  
  This year, thanks to covering some of the hottest topics in the tech blogosphere, I've been lucky enough to have been linked to from some of the most-prominent blogs in the market, including TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable, Scobleizer, MicroPersuasion, Jeremiah Owyang, Mathew Ingram, The Inquisitr, Profy and others. I've also been actively engaged with those flying lower on the radar, including I'm Not Actually a Geek, SheGeeks, Regular Geek (see a theme?) and others.
  
  But looking at my aggregate statistics from the last six months, not even the "big name" linkers drove a lot of traffic, relative to just

• 08 Jul 08
  

  Mike Fruchter

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  Adriana Lukas

  vaguely interesting, although the headline is misleading. I read blogs in my feed reader but click through to those blog posts I want to bookmark or blog. As a result see more stuff than I would without RSS, in aggregate as feeds allow me to capture a gre

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  Tris Hussey
  • I am a strong believer in the power of linking between blogs, and I still go out of my way to link, especially to peers, to smaller blogs, and to developers of services I write about. At one time, I thought being linked to by the most prominent bloggers could have a significant impact on my traffic. And for a short time, it did. But now, I've seen traffic from other blogs to be driving an ever-declining percentage of visits to my site, swamped by social media tools, aggregation sites, and of course, Google search.

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