In a way I was thinking along the lines of Sam above when I first wrote the post. Not that I think we need patience – it’s okay, I believe, to work hard and get results quickly.

What I wonder about is that perhaps all of the chains are giving false ratings – so in the end we all join in and we have an even more make believe world than the Internet already is.

No matter what, good luck!
Mike.

These are happening in digg, technorati favorites, meme, link exchanges, traffic exchange, blog roll. Somehow many are inviting friends to dig, link, etc.

Well, people nowadays no more have patience. Everybody want instant success!

I wrote a post about this:
http://acquirewisdom.blogspot.com/2007/04/looking-for-instant-success.html

1) hopefully to provide easy, simple and quick cooking recipes for others,
2) to find something to do in my spare time,
3) to improve my English through writing

However, sometime I do feel a bit sad when there are not many people to read my blog and the rank is low. I started to do something recently to make people aware of my blog existence: e.g. join BE.

So I guess ranking is not everything, and those 3 points above are still my aims. But it would be nice if I just want to find a way to get more people to read my blog and come back.

I admit to getting a kick out of having readers and even the variety of mail – some strange some hateful some funny – I would probably miss that.

The other stuff – eh.
Never give it a thought. I put by blogroll on a second page and now put all new people I read on my reader so to me the linkage game and the rating game is not something in am involved in.

The reader game, well it’s nice to have a small pile of readers and emailers.
Without that really all blogger would just have to go away, wouldn’t they.

I think that too many people are starting to focus on rankings for the incorrect reasons. This isn’t totally to blame though on the blogger I must say, but more the entire blogosphere which is totally based around rankings.

Topblogs are determined in a lot of locations by most visitors, not by highest quality of posting. In order to get most visitors directly search engine ranking plays a big role yet again and then there’s of course technorati ranking based on back-linking to you.

The multitude of these are all used in further items like in example payperpost and other sponsored blogging opportunities. Rather than getting paid for the amount of visitors get to read the article you write it is of more importance to have it placed on a ranked site.

Myself I can care less about ranking when it comes to my blog, it simply serves no real purpose. The only reason I blog is simply because I like to write every now and then and that’s exactly what I do. Because I’m relatively young and life is still pretty hectic with changes being made, along with the blog being set up without a true goal, it would even not make any sense to really care about rankings. Because where as for a couple of months I can be totally into this, it can be that the next.

In the end there’s one person I blog for truly, and that’s myself. Readers are nice, and I do enjoy input from other people on what I write, but as it is not a real priority for me I also let the entire ordeal of rankings pass by and let it be.

So far just letting it be has given me a PR of 2 anyways and that has pretty much been set a long time ago, wouldn’t surprise me if by now it would be going up to 3 the next time PR gets updated. To me it pretty much shows that actually trying to get PR up by spending lots of time in it what I have done with some more focussed sites, or simply doing nothing about it, doesn’t really matter that much. A lot just comes by time anyways in some form already if you simply build up a presence on the web.