Blog Ranking Explained

Dear Reader, if you're interested in Technorati's blog ranking and link counts, you might want to have a look at this succinct explanation of how they work.

Ranking is based on the number of unique linking blogs in the past six months. This means that a site's ranking can sink dramatically when an isolated flurry of linking in the past moves out of the six-month window. The recent two-carnival boom at Salto sobrius is a case in point. Still, this blog is lined up for more carnivals in the near future. And it's currently ranked number three among archaeology blogs in English worldwide, which tickles me no end.