Understanding EatonWeb’s Strength Metric
EatonWeb has brought together over 20 different factors that we believer are indicators of a blog’s strength and wrapped them all up into a single metric. Factors that we consider include technorati data, Google PageRank, the ratio of links to a site’s homepage as opposed to its deep links (we believe that there is a sweet spot on this ratio to rule out link manipulation), total links, estimated subscribers, Alexa ranking and more.
By combining all these factors, we think we’ve done a pretty good job at differentiating the great sites from the good sits and the good sites from the bad sites. And that’s one of the reasons that EatonWeb matters as a blog directory.
[...] also posts updates over at the EW Blog where he talks a bit about EatonWeb’s strength metric, and why EatonWeb matters not only for bloggers, but also for readers and potential buyers and [...]
By EatonWeb Portal Relaunched : The Blog Herald on June 7, 2007 9:33 am
IMO it’s possible, albeit slightly harder, to manipulate your incoming links to skew the ratio in favor of deep links. In fact, that’s what people have been doing for some time now.
It would be interesting to see all 20 factors - although keeping the secret sauce secret is probably a better idea.
By Ahmed on June 8, 2007 3:55 pm