Todd And’s Power 150 and Email Notifications
Todd And, a contributor to Forward Blog, has come up with an interesting list of the top 150 U.S. marketing blogs. It is Todd And’s Power 150.
The list comes about from a combination of objective and subjective methods that draw upon the following four factors: Google PageRank, Bloglines Subscribers, Technorati Ranking, and something called “Todd And Points”, which is essentially Todd’s personal opinion of the blog’s value.
According to Todd,
All four metrics were added to determine each blog’s total score. The total score carried the most weight in assigning the final Power 150 rank. If blogs shared the same final Power 150 rank, the suborder was determined by Todd And points. If Todd And points were the same, Technorati ranking points were compared – then Bloglines subscriber points and finally Google PageRank points.
Visit Todd’s blog for a more complete explanation. We’d like to note that Forward Blog is currently listed at #56 on the list. Thanks, Todd.
By the way, one of the reasons for this post is to test our new email notification system. Forward blog has about 150 email subscribers. However, the previous email notification plugin we were using for Forward was wrought with problems. So, we’ve changed to the Watershed Studio WordPress Email Notification Plugin.
Please do us a favor. If you received your notification of this post via email, please visit this post on the blog and comment. Actually, if you see this post and did not get a notification, please comment, too. We hope the problem is fixed. But, we won’t be sure until this post hits the blog. Thanks for your understanding and cooperation.
P.S. This isn’t Erin. I’m Robert. Don’t ask. I just needed to test the plugin. Erin was asleep. Shhhhh! She’ll likely not notice. 
Now, please say a prayer as I’m about to hit publish. Work plugin, work!
HA! Robert … so sneaky …
What’s funny is that I wanted to write about this topic anyway. I had no idea I could be so productive in my sleep!
I do believe I received the email notification. Was that just a fluke, or did anyone else?
Comment by Erin Caldwell — January 16, 2007 @ 11:38 am
:) Well, I received an email notification, too. So, we may only hope that it went out to the other 150 or so recipients. Cross your fingers.
Comment by Erin Caldwell — January 16, 2007 @ 12:33 pm
Ha! I forgot that I was logged in … so, that last comment was from Robert … not Erin.
Comment by Robert — January 16, 2007 @ 12:36 pm
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