Debatage
Holy crap guys! ACD and I are currently up to 13 comments worth of argument on yesterdays post about blog rankings. He insists that the number of Google incoming links is “universally accepted as a measure of importance” and the others are fairly useless. I believe that the incoming links are considered “important” in the sense that this is what gives you a good placement in Google. It indicates how many other classical music bloggers are linking to you, but certainly does not tell you how objectively “important” a website is (and extra-certainly not universally so.)
Personally, the number of people reading what I write here is more important to me then the number of links I get, and I think that the Google Reader and Bloglines subscriber numbers give a fairly decent indication of this. ACD disagrees that the RSS numbers are at all useful and claims that the number of incoming links is the only statistically “clean” method.
So what do you guys think? Are RSS subscribers a useful metric to you, or do you prefer incoming Google links?
