Pub Sub Lists Influential Sites, Often Incorrectly

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Pub Sub is publishing Link Ranks “measuring the strength, persistence, and vitality of links appearing in sites that syndicate their content.”
As Pub Sub notes: “LinkCounts are based on the content of a site’s feed(s). Some feeds only publish summaries (or even just headlines) that do not contain links.” Pub Sub site stats rank What’s Next Blog in the top 5% of influential blogs.
However, Pub Sub has our number of daily posts wrong, and lists no outgoing links for most days, although every post has at least one, and often several, links. Their stats are in beta, and the site says they will be updated and modified over time.

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1. Bob Wyman says:

   September 28, 2005 at 10:44 am

   You wrote: “Pub Sub has our number of daily posts wrong, and lists no outgoing links for most days, although every post has at least one, and often several, links.”
   The problem here is that you have at least three feeds on your site and they all publish slightly different content. Your RSS1 and RSS2 feeds rarely have links in them. Since those are the feeds that we’ve been reading we have rarely seen links from your posts. On the other hand, your Atom 0.3 feed seems to consistently contain links. Thus, we’re going to turn off reading your RSS feeds and switch to the Atom feeds. Your numbers should be more accurate in the future. Thanks for bringing this to our attention!
   bob wyman

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2. B.L. Ochman says:

   September 28, 2005 at 4:12 pm

   i have outlinks in every post on my blog, yet PubSub lists zero links out.
   what’s up with that?
   i do multiple entries every single weekday and sometimes on weekends.
   but you list many days as zeroes.
   why?

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