Eh, I don't know where I rank anymore and don't really care. I can't be bothered to join a "community" and I don't link to many people.

Plus, most of my blogroll doesn't use blogrolling so I'm royally screwed by the system.

Feh, it just doesn't matter. [/Meatballs]

Lots of traffic or not, your site remains one of the best around. I'd leave more comments, but you generally cover the topic so well that I really have nothing significant to add.

Like right now, come to think of it.

I've been suspicious of the accuracy NZ bear's ecosystem from the very beginning, and IMO it's full of bugs.

My own ranking simply doesn't track all that precisely with the actualy level of activity that's actually going on, and on the few occassions when it did, it seemed more like an accident.

It's not accurate at all anymore. It seems to stop updating, then starts, then stops. The gun blogger page hasn't updated in days. Depending on which tracker I use (TTLB, Blogpulse, technorati), I am the man or I suck. For example, my AR v. AK thing got a ton of links. Yet it never showed up on any tracker.

I like sitemeter for one reason: spam referrals don't show up. AWSTATS is about usless due to spam referrals. Nice thing about sitemeter is that the page has to load to count.

I used to follow their ranking system - and still have the code on my page - but haven't actually looked at it in some time. I always thought it was based on the number of in bound links or something, which is hardly equal to the number of visitors.

Heck, for that matter, I find technoratti horribly unreliable too. It seems that it often times takes days to get an accurate assessment of who linked to me - and then, its still hit or miss. Track backs don't really work either as it seems most people don't know how to use them.

For all its problems, I like sitemeter the best cause it gives me an actual IP address and a firm number. Plus I can easily discount the weird shit google searches.

Not that any of this iterests anyone as you all know how to do this far better than me (plus, I am on sabbatical anyway) but for what its worth Steve, if you really want to drive more traffic here then I am one daily reader who is all for your posting of more nudie pictures.

I concur with Rogers comments. Definitely one of the best around, and one of my daily "must-reads".
Thanks for your efforts.

I wasn't fishing for compliments, but thank you. They are most appreciated

BTW, try google blogsearch:

http://google.com/blogsearch

You can even subscribe to a feed of sites that link to you. Good way to hear what others say.

Also, since I failed to mention it, i read your site daily. I use a feed reader and there are very few sites that I actually click to from the reader. I find I click yours every day.

Well, I just thought I'd come comment on this entry because you said we should comment a lot. ;)

However, I read your blog just as regularly now as ever and expect the same is true of most.

Well, I stopped thinking about it altogether when I found that I had been suspended from the Ecosystem and NZB won't even reply to my emails to acknowledge that he has recieved them.

I suspected at first that it was taken down while he worked on a bug that I pointed out to him multiple times (I host other blogs for friends on subdirectories and I was being credited with those links too) but to ban me from the system and then not even acknowledge my polite questions is just... rude. DU/Kos rude.

Where are the nude pics?

Would,nt you just love to see the reaction of one of those idiots who oppose bear hunting to come face to face with a she bear with two or three cubs see what their reaction is before mama bear decides to show her cubs what nit wits taste like

The lesson here just might be:
Don't expect too much from a service that is free !
(not too hard to imagine where their priorities lie)

About your hits ?
Hang in there, go for the quality, not the quantity.
I know when I click on your comments that I will not be overwhelmed with stupidity.