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My technorati is up to 123 and steadily going up. Now that it is up that high, I really am not sure how important it truly is. In the beginning, when I started at 0 is seemed like a good goal to increase it, in hopes of getting more visitors. Now, I am not sure how much that matters. I haven’t tried writing one of those WTFs to get votes yet. Do you ever use the technorati website to look up blogs?

MBL, blogcatalog, romlet actually give me constant visitors who like to read blogs and revisit. They were the first social networks that I signed up for that still works. I don’t frequent those sites as much as I use to due in part that I get regular visitors. I would have to say those social networks have given me most of my repeat visitors.

My feedburner seems to hover in the 30 range for now. In the past 10 days since I put it back up and had my wife correctly set it up after I botched it, the numbers seem to bounce from 20 to 40. I tried reading the feedburner stats but really need to invest more time in reading it to actually understand it. I originally thought that if you have someone sign up once, it would just keep going up. I suspect it goes up and down daily depending on the frequency of repeat visitors using their rss feeder. This is all a guess on my part.

I really like stumbleupon now. I use it to stumble for beautiful pictures of sunsets, sunrises, waterfalls, oceans, etc. I like to use it to zip through new blogs. I have tried the video option too and have seen some good videos through there. On top of that, I get regular traffic sent from the site. When I check my stats to see how long these particular visitors stay, I am surprised they are not just 2 second visitors, but some 5 to 10 minute readers. That actually surprised me because I don’t really have too many pictures or videos on my site. I am not sure how to tell if they come back or not.

Overall, I am very happy just to have any visitors come and read my blog. I appreciate all the comments everyone leaves even if it is just to say hi. I think Andy’s commentluv plug in is awesome that it gives you a free plug to your last post. I am surprised at all the bloggers who don’t take advantage of this. What I mean is that some of you who comment have the no follow thing, so the plugin can’t give you the free advertisement back to your site. I don’t know how to change the programming but it will depend on the blog platform or application you use. I know the blogger has it built in.

I got a referral from blogrush the other day. I was very surprised because I took the widget down a few weeks ago after disappointing numbers. I did get the email from blogrush recently saying my blog still qualifies under quality control reviews they performed. Supposedly, they rejected over 10,000 blogs that had little or no content. I am guessing they mean just monetized blogs or sites. I kind of thought this was a come on to have me put back their widget. I notice when I read many of your blogs that most still have it up. I am curious how is it working for you? Do you recommend me putting my widget back up after they did there internal audits to make it better and more efficient?