Tempting, isn't it? One press of the key, and 20 blogs are reindexed at once. If you have run out of your allotted indexing for the day, it will cost you 20 chips. And is reindexing incoming really the optimum way to add value to your precious blog?
Here's an alternative method which I've found adds more value. Start at the bottom of the incoming links to the blog. As you go, report dead blogs, earning chips and sigma, and merge duplicate blogs. At the bottom of the list are often hiding valuable blogs which haven't been indexed for ages. And those bottom blogs quite often link to blogs further up the list. As you index up the list, the blogs further up gain value.
If you had reindexed the top blogs first, you would have missed the value added from the hidden treasures at the bottom!
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Your blog in BlogShares
Perhaps you have just begun publishing your new blog, gingerly exposing your thoughts to an unseen audience and would like to have the possibility of gaining new live readers rather than merely relying on search engine bots to find and categorise your blog automatically from its RSS feed.
BlogShares is played by real humans, many of whom enjoy reading and collecting interesting blogs - especially those with unique content, clever writing, twists or of significance in a specialised area. Some blogs are so immensely popular in the game for their content, even regardless of their value, they have been the objects of intense battles for control of their shares. Apart from content, you can improve your blog's attractiveness to the people in the game by obtaining links from existing popular sites. It will also help your credibility with the major search engines if your links are related to your subject matter.
Once your blog is added to BlogShares, it can be voted into different industries based on its specific demographic factors and substantial or significant content. You will see then where in each relevant industry your blog is positioned, and which other blogs are related to yours which you might like to read and/or interact with.
Your blog can also gain strategic and financial value (that's BlogShares $ not real ones) to you if you join the game and claim the blog as your own. You may wish to retain all its shares, or gift some to friends in the game. Every six hours you can cycle your shares, selling them then buying them back through artefact use and pocketing the difference.
BlogShares is played by real humans, many of whom enjoy reading and collecting interesting blogs - especially those with unique content, clever writing, twists or of significance in a specialised area. Some blogs are so immensely popular in the game for their content, even regardless of their value, they have been the objects of intense battles for control of their shares. Apart from content, you can improve your blog's attractiveness to the people in the game by obtaining links from existing popular sites. It will also help your credibility with the major search engines if your links are related to your subject matter.
Once your blog is added to BlogShares, it can be voted into different industries based on its specific demographic factors and substantial or significant content. You will see then where in each relevant industry your blog is positioned, and which other blogs are related to yours which you might like to read and/or interact with.
Your blog can also gain strategic and financial value (that's BlogShares $ not real ones) to you if you join the game and claim the blog as your own. You may wish to retain all its shares, or gift some to friends in the game. Every six hours you can cycle your shares, selling them then buying them back through artefact use and pocketing the difference.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Farmyard Politics
Pecking orders are endemic in farmyards. In BlogShares, some players have amassed huge wealth and/or have been playing for years, with a considerable time and effort invested in acquiring every artefact and ideas from every industry to reach the loftier echelons of the composite rankings.
BlogShares is an organic game, always evolving, with more blogs, artefacts and industries continually being added as pursuit targets. Thus it is devastatingly addictive - one never quite reaches the end.
There are other ways to enjoy the game too - these include inventing new artefact descriptions, finding new blogs and rare industries, player missions, social networking via irc, twitter and player blogs, engaging in corporate share raids and other strategic play, and most of all, enjoying and sharing with other bloggers and blog afficionados the most comprehensive and up to date collection of contemporary writing, photos and other paraphenalia on the planet.
BlogShares is an organic game, always evolving, with more blogs, artefacts and industries continually being added as pursuit targets. Thus it is devastatingly addictive - one never quite reaches the end.
There are other ways to enjoy the game too - these include inventing new artefact descriptions, finding new blogs and rare industries, player missions, social networking via irc, twitter and player blogs, engaging in corporate share raids and other strategic play, and most of all, enjoying and sharing with other bloggers and blog afficionados the most comprehensive and up to date collection of contemporary writing, photos and other paraphenalia on the planet.
Crop Circles
Another concept for enhancing blog values in the game is ensuring that as many folks as possible link to your blog, adding a proportion of their blog value to yours. You can then choose to reciprocate and return some of the value, or concentrate it on specific target blogs to increase their value.
Growing your blogs' value
Since the new math, shares in BlogShares are a very profitable way to increase your B$ wealth.
Cycling a mere B$200m blog can produce B$80b - B$100b profit. But you don't want your newly found or won blog to slip in value as it will decrease the amount you receive from cycling, and reduce the value passed on to your blog's outlinks, some of which you may also hold.
Therefore you should tend your blogs wisely, and weed their incoming and outgoing links to concentrate and build value.
By weeding, I mean checking whether each incoming and outgoing blog is alive, looking behind those links for other links of value and reindexing from the inside out, which will add value as you go. If you start your gardening and reindexing at the bottom of the list of incoming links you may well also find some very attractively price blogs which you can acquire along the way.
Additionally your weeding will clean and benefit the Blogshares index.
After the process is completed you will have a clearer picture of the future potential of your shares in your blog. You can increase value further by visiting Google and searching for more blogs which link into your blog to add to the game. eg link: http://blogfarming.blogspot.com/ in the google search bar.
Cycling a mere B$200m blog can produce B$80b - B$100b profit. But you don't want your newly found or won blog to slip in value as it will decrease the amount you receive from cycling, and reduce the value passed on to your blog's outlinks, some of which you may also hold.
Therefore you should tend your blogs wisely, and weed their incoming and outgoing links to concentrate and build value.
By weeding, I mean checking whether each incoming and outgoing blog is alive, looking behind those links for other links of value and reindexing from the inside out, which will add value as you go. If you start your gardening and reindexing at the bottom of the list of incoming links you may well also find some very attractively price blogs which you can acquire along the way.
Additionally your weeding will clean and benefit the Blogshares index.
After the process is completed you will have a clearer picture of the future potential of your shares in your blog. You can increase value further by visiting Google and searching for more blogs which link into your blog to add to the game. eg link: http://blogfarming.blogspot.com/ in the google search bar.
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