Just an FYI to everyone that reads, subscribes and checks this site incessantly, I recently entered the ranks of the Top 100 blogs as tracked by Technorati, out of 70M+ blogs. Technorati takes into account unique links within the past 6 months, or at least that’s how they used to do it. It’s very likely I’ll get knocked out eventually due to the stiff competition, but rank is just a number, nothing more.
While I am in the Top 100 I, like many other WordPress theme developers, aren’t listed on the popular page just my profile page. Also, my little web app flickrSLiDR played no small role in this. It’s been online for almost 2 months and 30,000 slideshows have been made with it. How many of those were actually used on websites I can’t tell you, but even at 5% that’s 1,500 links. Thanks to (mt) for the support.
As for next week, I’ll be in San Francisco for 5 days to visit friends, business contacts and attend WordCamp to hopefully meet some of you. If you’re at WordCamp, I’ll likely be wearing a “Stammy” shirt and have lots of schwag to hand out. My time will also be spent at Yahoo! to watch an internal Hack Day, Google where a Georgia Tech friend will be showing me around, OpenDNS HQ and more. I can’t wait to move out there for good..
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Congrats Paul!
Sky is the limit…
That is excellent news Paul!
congratulations.
grats! Hope you have a cool time at WordCamp.
Good luck Paul, and congrats! I hope everything turns out well for you. Have fun!
congrats!
Well done Paul! Today 94, tomorrow number 1! And I don’t care what Technorati say, you’re site will always be my favourite tech blog to read! I bet you’re excited about San Fran. I’d love to visit there! But I’d have to do it in style, of course. Maybe one day, I’ll be living there. Just like you’ll be! Anyway, keep up the good work pal! =)
Congratulations! It’s always nice to see hard work being paid off. Keep it up, Paul.
Well done Stammy! Bravo sou.
That is cool. Congrats!
Impressive – again :-)
congrats man!
Congrats Paul!
I was looking through through the technorati top 100 list, and I found this kind of odd:
Engadget – ranked #1 – authority 30,394
http://technorati.com/blogs/www.engadget.com
Photo Matt – ranked #1 – authority 136,785
http://technorati.com/blogs/photomatt.net
Hrm…
awesome
You’ll have to stop by Flickr HQ as well.
Comgrats Paul!
Congratulations Paul!!
This is quite an accomplishment. Congratulations.
I’ll be out in Cali / SV from July 24-30. Any travel recommendations?
congrats well done!
People who gain their Technorati rank because of automated links get blacklisted from the public top X rankings. Thus why you and Matt Mullenweg don’t appear on the top 100.
See in you in SF. I’ll be there with my wife from the 17th-24th.
Congrats Paul! It’s a cool accomplishment!
Congrats man, I’m in the 30 thousand somethings… … … yaaaay..
That is a real accomplishment. Congratulations Paul.
Paul, make sure you hit Google around lunch time. It’ll be one of the best lunches you’re get on your trip.
Congratulations, and thank you for all the helpful articles you have posted. :]
Quite an achievement! Congratulations!
Exceptional. As always!
Congratulations mate!
Grats! Someday I hope to be there. Lofty aspirations, ftw.
well im a few weeks late but CONGRATS!
congrats paul!