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Unofficial Mugglenet Campaign

I am starting a campaign to get the mighty mugglenet listed on the Technorati Top 100. Right now Technorati is tracking over 8 million weblogs and over a billion links. I think it would be cool if the most popular Harry Potter website were on the list of the top 100 weblogs. The key is to have enough incoming links from enough sources.

Right now mugglenet has 2070 incoming links from 1634 sources. The Website at number 100 has about 2417 incoming links from about 1779 sources. Therefore mugglenet only needs an additional 200 sources to link to it to get on the top 100.

So if you are a Harry Potter fan and wish to participate, please do the following:
1. Create a weblog if you don't already have one. (Its really easy at blogger.com.)
2. Register at Technorati.com (Unregistered blogs may not be counted.)
3. Post an entry that links to mugglenet.com
4. Let me know that you've added the link (Linking to my blog is sufficient.)
5. Ping Technorati (To let them know you've updated your blog.)

It might not even require any new links from any new sources. I think Technorati first counts links of blogs that are registered with them. So if you already have a blog and have already linked to mugglenet, register at technorati and ping them.

Blogcritics and Google

The staff at Blogcritics.org sure know how to maximize the features at google. I've only made one post at blogcritics and now if you search for the terms "bored of education" or "books math education" my blog comes up on the first or second page of results. Even a search for "mugglenet" brings up my blog at the number two spot.

It's almost frightening. I feel like the student who doesn't want to do well on a test. Because if he does, people will continue to expect high marks, and he doesn't want the added pressure.

I didn't feel any pressure when only a few friends were reading. Now I can see that if I promote it properly, I could develop a much larger audience. Before I do so I need to do some maintenance. First, I need to reorganize my sidebars so they are easier to navigate. Second, I need to upload some graphics to make it look nicer. Finally, I need to create a useful profile with contact information.

Before I do these things I'm only going to make the minimum number of posts at blogcritics. (I signed up to review four books. Since the publishers' agents are sending them to me I feel I should review them as soon as possible regardless of the state of my blog.)

Anyway, I've got a lot to do. Its a good thing I'm on spring break.

Technorati Tag Test

For those who don't know, the website technorati watches over 7 million weblogs and tracks over 863 million links.

They offer a service called tags. The idea is that when I update my weblog, a link is added under the appropriate tag. People who are browsing through the technorati tags might see the link to my blog and visit.

It is a great way to promote a site with interesting content. (I don't pretend, yet, to have interesting content. I'm still just figuring out the technology.)

I want to see if it works by placing this entry in the blogging tag.

So if you came to my site via technorati, post a comment whether it worked or not.