So, apparently a media analysis company named this blog a "top Finnish tech blog" of February. I'm not really sure why, given I post here pretty infrequently, and the majority of my small readership comes from USA (26%, versus Finland 9%, UK 8% and Germany 5%). This is out of about 1000 monthly visits, most of which are coming via search engines to a few older, more reference-style posts like these about wireless sharing and RAID optimization.

The only post I made in February was a rant about about passwords. I wonder if it was that, or the previous posting about web identities which made them pick me on the list. I doubt either will be an influential post over a longer period, and certainly have not collected a massive amount of traffic since their posting. Perhaps it's just the fairly good search ranking some of those reference posts seem to have gathered. The list is a pretty random bunch -- F-Secure, a few daily/weekly gadget blogs, and a couple of relatively infrequently updated blogs sort of similar to this one.

But what does it mean to be named a top blog? Well, they've brought in 3% of the traffic since they released the list on Feb 28th. That gets them spot #7 on traffic sources to Fishpool.org, and 9% share of the hits to the front page. There were 10 individual articles in the archive that got more landing visits via references and search engines, though.

Thanks, anyway. I'll try not to have this influence my writing in the future :)

Update: 24 hours later, the tweet about this post has generated 3 times as much traffic as the top-10 listing has done in 2 weeks. I suppose posting this, I've donated more publicity, little as it has been, to Cision than they did to me - and I suspect that is the point of their blog listings in general.