August 26, 2005
Not that I obsess, but . . .
If there's an active blogger on the face of the planet who can honestly say they don't obsess about their traffic, then I've never met that person. Today's little minor panic attack came courtesy of the TTLB Ecosystem:
That's a pretty steep drop in links. I sure hope it's just another one of those occasional re-jigging of the system!
Posted by Nicholas at August 26, 2005 11:06 AM
The same thing happened to me back in July when I went from 210 links down to 49. Having since built myself up back to about 70 I'm back down to 46. As best as I can make out the system only scans links from the front page of a site and not its archives. The system seems to conduct minor checks every day and then major checks every so often. This, I would guess, is the reason for these major collapses.
Yes, that closely corresponds to my experiences as well. I guess the major scans must be very labour and compute-time intensive, because TTLB only seems to launch these little earthquakes every two to three months.
