101 Steps to Become a Better Blogger

After having run across that post on Karen's site I dropped in on Marcus and started checking out his posts on 101 ways to become a better blogger. Hell, I want to be a better blogger. I would also like to learn how to write a coherent entertaining sentence but that is probably beyond the means of this project. Anyway, I am going to participate in this project along with him and I will attempt to do it on all three of my blogs at the same time. There are several things I need to get in order on them anyway, so this will probably take care of them...

The first step is to Go to Popuri and check your page rank, alexa rank, and technorati rank. make a note of these so you'll have something compare them to next summer.

So here are the results for my three sites:

Shadowscope

Google PageRank: 5
Alexa Rank: 62,365
Compete Rank: 363,408
Quantcast Rank: 71,180
Google BackLinks: 560
Yahoo BackLinks: 16,495
Live Search BackLinks: 1
Technorati Links: 3,216
del.icio.us Bookmarks: 1
Bloglines subscribers: 9

TheAppDotNet

Google PageRank: 4
Alexa Rank: 214,827
Compete Rank: 0
Quantcast Rank: 0
Google BackLinks: 71
Yahoo BackLinks: 1,875
Live Search BackLinks: 1
Technorati Links: 237
del.icio.us Bookmarks: 1
Bloglines subscribers: 0

Miles Business Blog

Google PageRank: 3
Alexa Rank: 309,724
Compete Rank: 0
Quantcast Rank: 0
Google BackLinks: 36
Yahoo BackLinks: 288
Live Search BackLinks: 0
Technorati Links: 249
del.icio.us Bookmarks: 0
Bloglines subscribers: 0

The first step actually assumes that you run Wordpress and that you know how to set it up to ping some sites when you update your blog. I don't run Wordpress but I do know how to have it ping and have it set to do so.