Monday, September 26, 2005
CBC 110: How the mighty (CBC.ca) have fallen
A web feed monitoring service called PubSub today launched a new list that says it measures the top 1000 "most influental websites" in the world.
CBC.ca does not appear anywhere in that top 1000. How the mighty have fallen.
The top 1000 ranking is based on numbers for the past 30 days and it counts mentions on RSS feeds. So it is one public measure of how CBC.ca is doing during the lockout,
Now there are a couple of things you have to know about PubSub. It appears that it largely measures full text RSS feeds and following the Google model, those full text feeds have to contain links. So it measures feeds that link to a site and the number links from a site contained in the feed. Footnotes on their pages say they are constantly refining their linkranking measuring tools.
But other Canadian media are ranked in that top 1000.
The world's most influental site, according to PubSub is the BBC, followed by the New York Times and the Washington Post. Some other samples. ABC Australia comes in at 62, NASA at 253, Microsoft support at 311 and the London Observer at 437.
The marketing news site ClickZ reported about this service a couple of hours before the launch:
You'll find CBC.ca's stats here.
The most interesting to me is the chart on the right side of the page which shows the number of sites linking to CBC.ca's minimal coverage has steadily dropped since the lockout begun.
CBCunlocked is not doing well in these rankings, not registering yet, although it is a little early, they just started and don't have an RSS feed. The good news is that the chart shows that number of people with RSS feeds linking to CBCunlocked it is growing, almost mirroring the drop at CBC.ca.
If you look at the ranking for little ol' me, robinrowland.com, even I am doing better than CBC.ca!!! (at least on this list) On Sunday I was in the top 11% of their sites, ranking number 6,957.
Tod Maffin's CBCunplugged blog registers among the world's most influential sites. He was in the top one per cent on Sunday at 489. Since PubSub stats are cumulative, it will be interesting to see if Tod makes next month's top 1000. If you look at the green line on his chart, it might just happen.
John Gushue, at Dot Dot Dot another CBC.ca lockoutee, beat me on Sunday and also blew away CBC.ca, making it into the top seven per cent with a ranking of 4,502.
As for Tea Makers, it shows that you can rank when you have a lot of people linking to you, even if you don't have many outlinks. On Sunday, Tea Makers ranked 20,648, among the top 32%, again, our insider manager is doing better than CBC.ca
Some other sites:
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11:25 PM posted by Robin Rowland
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A web feed monitoring service called PubSub today launched a new list that says it measures the top 1000 "most influental websites" in the world.
CBC.ca does not appear anywhere in that top 1000. How the mighty have fallen.
The top 1000 ranking is based on numbers for the past 30 days and it counts mentions on RSS feeds. So it is one public measure of how CBC.ca is doing during the lockout,
Now there are a couple of things you have to know about PubSub. It appears that it largely measures full text RSS feeds and following the Google model, those full text feeds have to contain links. So it measures feeds that link to a site and the number links from a site contained in the feed. Footnotes on their pages say they are constantly refining their linkranking measuring tools.
But other Canadian media are ranked in that top 1000.
- 64 globeandmail.com
- 75 canada.com
- 142 ctv.ca
- 198 The Star.com
- 634 tsn.ca
The world's most influental site, according to PubSub is the BBC, followed by the New York Times and the Washington Post. Some other samples. ABC Australia comes in at 62, NASA at 253, Microsoft support at 311 and the London Observer at 437.
The marketing news site ClickZ reported about this service a couple of hours before the launch:
PubSub is today expected to unleash a new site ranking tool, called LinkRanks, that measures the "strength, persistence, and vitality" of links pointing to and from a given Web site...
Additionally, PubSub has begun an effort to compile lists of influential Weblogs by category, which could be of use to media buyers and planners eager to buy advertising in blogs....
By fiddling with LinkRanks' parameters -- now built into the PubSub engine -- PR types can determine the approximate reach and influence of a particular Web page based on the sites that link to that page, either on a daily basis or over a period of weeks. They can also use it to focus their brand listening on the most influential group of blogs or publications.
You'll find CBC.ca's stats here.
The most interesting to me is the chart on the right side of the page which shows the number of sites linking to CBC.ca's minimal coverage has steadily dropped since the lockout begun.
CBCunlocked is not doing well in these rankings, not registering yet, although it is a little early, they just started and don't have an RSS feed. The good news is that the chart shows that number of people with RSS feeds linking to CBCunlocked it is growing, almost mirroring the drop at CBC.ca.
If you look at the ranking for little ol' me, robinrowland.com, even I am doing better than CBC.ca!!! (at least on this list) On Sunday I was in the top 11% of their sites, ranking number 6,957.
Tod Maffin's CBCunplugged blog registers among the world's most influential sites. He was in the top one per cent on Sunday at 489. Since PubSub stats are cumulative, it will be interesting to see if Tod makes next month's top 1000. If you look at the green line on his chart, it might just happen.
John Gushue, at Dot Dot Dot another CBC.ca lockoutee, beat me on Sunday and also blew away CBC.ca, making it into the top seven per cent with a ranking of 4,502.
As for Tea Makers, it shows that you can rank when you have a lot of people linking to you, even if you don't have many outlinks. On Sunday, Tea Makers ranked 20,648, among the top 32%, again, our insider manager is doing better than CBC.ca
Some other sites:
- PubSub's Daily top 100
- Tessa's "I've been locked out" was 41,282 on Sunday in the top 64% (she did better earlier in the week)
- CBC Drone was 21,854 on Sunday in the top 31%.
- CmgToronto.ca did not register
- CBContheline.ca did not register
- Management's CBC negotiations did not register
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11:25 PM posted by Robin Rowland
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