Last week MicroPersuasion had a post about BlogPosition.com. The service will search Google to determine how your blog ranks by a particular keyword.
I checked out the service today with my blog. In my quick review, it did not impress.
Looking at my referral logs, three sets of keywords generate a great deal of inbound links from Google. The first: 'Lost Theories'. If you do a Google search for 'Lost Theories' you'll see my blog comes up seventh. (The link is for my own 'Lost theory'). I went to BlogPosition and entered my blog URL and the term 'lost theories.' According to BlogPosition my blog is not ranked in the top 200 on Google.
The second: 'Cypress Gardens Annual Pass'. A Google search for those terms shows my blog as the third listing (as of the weekend I was the first listing). Back to BlogPosition and according to them once again my blog is not ranked in the top 200 in Google.
The third: 'LiveStrong Bands'. A Google search shows me as 16th on the first page. Back to BlogPosition and once again, according to them my blog is not ranked in the top 200 in Google.
I tried variations of my blog URL, i.e. www.hyku.com/blog/ and hyku.com/blog/ Both variations returned the same results.
With those quick searches I do not put much faith in BlogPosition. Perhaps I would be tempted to contact one of their advertisers to get more traffic to my blog. Maybe that is what they're counting on.
Visitor Comments
agreed. i searched on a few terms like SOA, services - even tecosystems, and more often than not we didn't come up.
Posted by: Stephen O'Grady | November 22, 2004 10:48 PM
My blog has a word that only appears 12 times in Google. BlogPosition tells me that I'm not in the first 200 results. Useless! I wonder if they used up their daily allowance for the Google API.
Posted by: Chris Lundie | November 25, 2004 3:30 AM