Comments on: Techmeme’s Influence

By: It’s not about the eyeballs, it’s the brains - - mathewingram.com/work

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:52:22 +0000

[...] pageviews and hits and eyeballs, but apparently not. To me — and to others like Frederic at The Last Podcast — the benefit of being on Techmeme.com is the kinds of readers I reach, and in most cases [...]

By: Frederic

Frederic — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:35:44 +0000

Gabe – I was kidding about that comment. I just thought it was funny that you defended yourself against those arguments by saying you weren’t my friend

By: Gabe

Gabe — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:17:18 +0000

Hah, you succeeded in making me feel bad about the “friend” comment (which was to support an unrelated point). Hey, let’s be Facebook friends, and see where things go from there.

By: Frederic

Frederic — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:50:30 +0000

Louis – I fully agree with you to some degree. I found your blog through TechMeme and subscribed to your feed.

That was when your post was a headline, though. I haven’t been there myself, just in the bylines, so that might explain the difference.

I actually often get more readers from a TechCrunch trackback or comment than I get from TechMeme. TechMeme would usually bring me 20 visitors at best.

But you are right, its indeed not the numbers but the quality of readers and there, TechMeme wins over Digg. Getting a link from Scoble sure helps as well

By: Louis Gray

Louis Gray — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:47:30 +0000

Depends what “lots of traffic” means. It’s certainly no Digg or StumbleUpon. But, in addition to Scoble’s blog, I find TechMeme to be a great delivery mechanism for eventual sticky visitors who participate and sign up to RSS, and that’s good enough for me.

I wrote about this last week:

Tech Blog Link Power: Spiky Visitors or Sticky Visitors?
http://www.louisgray.com/live/2007/10/tech-blog-link-power-spiky-visitors-or.html