Sorry to keep going on about this, but we’ve tried a lot of solutions. We haven’t yet gone so far as to call the blog 11111111111aaaaaaaaWhyDontYou but that may be next 🙂

We have an automatic ping set up. Plus we have started manually pinging the blogroll after we post (when we remember.) If the ping works (never at a weekend) it’s usually so long after the post that we end up appearing halfway down the blogroll, as seen in date order.

I have one html slot for a rolling (i.e. “shortlisted”) version with only the updated ones.

Then, I used one html slot below for a static version with the whole list, similar to how people have posted the links in posts.

This won’t fix the **New thing, but it will hopefully work better with Technorati.

I will see if it happens next time we post.

Al-Kaffir Akbar? Isn’ that the AGW-denialist blog? Good grief.

IIRC you had commented on his denialism — perhaps that explains the traffic.

Sorry to add even more words to this but. …

We are all looking at different bits of Technorati and a different versions of the blogroll. This is confusing.

My point about Technorati is that it doesn’t count some links within posts. ( E.g. It shows mana’s in-text reference to this blog now. It doesn’t show yours)

I looked at your technorati information and found they hadn’t given you a “link” for the posts to you that were inside the main content of this blog. They didn’t acknowledge your last half dozen posts.

I pinged technorati with your blog name. It did indeed update your list of posts and your links list after that. It showed the link from us in your list of links.

But it didn’t show your in-post link to us in our Authority bit. here.

When I said about people leaving the site, I never meant it was a bad thing as such – I don’t for one second expect people to spend their lives here! As I understood it, the original intentions of the blogroll were that it had a reciprocal result. For example, people would read this blog, then look at the blog roll and go elsewhere but at the same time, people would read your blog then look at the blogroll and come here. This is the bit which is broken (from our perspective) and that is what is annoying.

I have to admit, however, we are back on the blogroll again now! 🙂 It seems our complaints were heard by the God of Blogrolling and action was taken… 🙂

Another odd thing – this is something heather picked up ages ago – when we have a hard time getting posts on the blog roll and they eventually come through, it is always after the nutter blog Al-Kaffir Akbar… Weird…

On the subject of Technorati, as I understand it, they stopped ranking blogrolls per se. This means that even if WDY had honorable mention in blogrolls on 1,000 sites, Technorati still would not give you ‘authority’ unless your site was linked within a *post*. This is why a few of us have been recommending putting the blogroll *within* a post. (It’s also why I won’t link directly to creationist sites.)

I think that Mojoey’s idea of a blogroll was great, but, as you say, it can lead to readers leaving your site. I guess that they would do so anyway, if they had not found what they were looking for — it’s just that you give them somewhere to go.