I don't pay much attention to my Blog Ecosystem Rankings -- haha, right -- but it's interesting to notice how many more links would be required for me to move up in the world.
Here's a chart -- me me me, the world revolves around me -- with each site being ranked twice as high as the one after it.
| Rank | Links | Site |
| 1 | 2313 | Instapundit |
| 2 | 1453 | AndrewSullivan |
| 4 | 1420 | Talking Points Memo |
| 8 | 990 | Little Green Footballs |
| 16 | 670 | Matthew Yglesias |
| 33 | 562 | The Truth Laid Bear |
| 65 | 359 | Arts & Letters Daily |
| 130 | 250 | Wampum |
| 261 | 155 | Master of None |
| 522 | 96 | Semi-Intelligent Thoughts |
| 1044 | 53 | brainstorming |
| 2088 | 22 | commons-blog |
| 4176 | 6 | Contains 2 |
The slope isn't as steep as I would have expected. For example, if my number of inbound links were to double, my rank would jump from #261 to around #95, a 270% improvement for 200% the links. If my inbound links increased five-fold I'd leap to #13, 2000% improvement for 500% the links. Each link is more valuable than the one before it!
The question then is: is each link harder to obtain than the one before? One might argue that, since there are only a limited number of blogs to get linked from. However, the Ecosystem currently lists 8076 blogs, and even Glenn Reynolds penetrates only 29% of the market. There are plenty of blogs out there who'd probably link to me, if their owners became aware of my site.
