Comments on: OPAD Contest — Day 3 — Are Contests and Ranking Worth It?

By: RP

RP — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:34:42 +0000

Eric, thanks so much for coming by and for your insightful comment. Ha ha I hadn’t been thinking of Technorati in a while, now you’ve brought the back into the picture *smile*.

As an old ‘country boy’ friend of mine used to say … It’s enough to make a train take a dirt road.

Your advice is absolutely well-founded, I’ve watched MEMWG grow nicely, and more importantly, become ever more useful over the past few years, sometime it seems almost in spite of rating and ranking services, certainly not because of tem.

By: RP

RP — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:29:21 +0000

Hi Bob, Thanks for dropping by. And for shring. Indeed to be 200th out of a list that includes the Chows and the Cows and the Rowses is certainly better thna a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

However I was more or less just thinking outloud as I wrote the post, wondering if my focus is in the right place ,,, and along with some other readers I have more or less concluded that my focus has been off. I am not going to ask Mark to remove me … but I think I’ll go in stealth mode for a bit and see if I can keep my eyes more on the prize.

By: Eric Giguere

Eric Giguere — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:40:19 +0000

Rankings are good, but they’re not the things that bring in money, or satisfaction. Look at my Technorati ratings for MEMWG, which really stink. Their system is all messed up somehow when it comes to my blog, but oh well… Don’t spend a lot of time worrying about it. By all means take off the chicklet and work on other things….

Eric

By: Mindanao Bob

Mindanao Bob — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:28:13 +0000

Hi RP – Don’t get discouraged! I submitted my money making site to the 45n5.com list, and I was never even included! So, to rank 200+ is a lot better than being rejected! Actually,the “make money” sites are so prevalent on the net that to be the 200th best is a pretty good achievement.