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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Vinny Lingham's Blog - Latest Comments in How to calculate blog reach &amp;#038; influence?</title><link>http://vinnylingham.disqus.com/</link><description>Personal Blog of Vinny Lingham, CEO of SynthaSite</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:27:42 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: How to calculate blog reach &amp;#038; influence?</title><link>http://www.vinnylingham.com/how-to-calculate-blog-reach-influence.html#comment-1609590</link><description>Traffic doesn't mean anything if bounce rate and time on site are bad.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">mlankton</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:27:42 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: How to calculate blog reach &amp;#038; influence?</title><link>http://www.vinnylingham.com/how-to-calculate-blog-reach-influence.html#comment-1609589</link><description>Or finding your content on a MFA site that integrates your feed. Prevention? Not really. Whether this influence and reach can be converted to monetary value though, would sometimes be hard to determine I guess. Another topic alltogether.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Dirk Tolken</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:56:42 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: How to calculate blog reach &amp;#038; influence?</title><link>http://www.vinnylingham.com/how-to-calculate-blog-reach-influence.html#comment-1609588</link><description>Vinny, when "Hundreds of thousands of sites — ranging from automated splogs to high-profile online media — use RSS feeds from good independent bloggers as part of their content" -- do you take that as a compliment?  I was wondering if that could be prevented in any way?</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Rhianna</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:08:19 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: How to calculate blog reach &amp;#038; influence?</title><link>http://www.vinnylingham.com/how-to-calculate-blog-reach-influence.html#comment-1609587</link><description>I would put inbound hotlinks as #1.  You can't trust search engine traffic these days.  I would rather have other "A" list bloggers find what I write interesting and link to me.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;BeachBum</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">BeachBum</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:54:06 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>