The internet is a very fickle place. One day, you’re on top of the world and everyone loves your blog and just can’t get enough of it. The next day, all these people with short attention spans have jumped onto a new bandwagon, exclaiming that it is the greatest discovery of all time. Now, I can’t say that my blog has been particularly popular over the course of its existence (which is coming up on one year), but I’ve seen some pretty steady growth, especially since I started dedicating myself to blogging at least once a day. The growth has been even better after installing some fun plug-ins and then tossing in a few extra additions. Let’s see where I’m at in the blogosphere.

When I got accepted by ReviewMe, my Technorati ranking was 78,469. I also noticed that my Alexa was in the 500K-600K range. Both of these have improved quite a bit since then, even though it’s only been about a week. This may be a result of John Chow’s evil pinging scheme. Another side effect, unfortunately, is that it seems I’ve been banned by Technorati. When you use the Technorati search function, Beyond the Rhetoric does not show up, despite the fact that the BTR Technorati page is still there. Anyways, here are my digits as of today:

Technorati: 52,953

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Alexa: 337,378.

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Google Indexed Pages: 274

Google Pagerank: 4 (front page)

There’s clearly more room for improvement, but I’m very happy to see those numbers improving. The unfortunate side effect is that I’ve been banned by Technorati.

So, overall, is this good news or bad news?