Just when my loyal Analytics were down, I got to urge to check them. I guess that is a normal phenomenom, you want most what you don’t have. And at that moment it was Google Analytics numbers. *grins* So I needed destraction. Hmmm. Testing some new stuff that seems neat most of the time works!

So I decided to create an account at both HitTail and Authorati and to see what they can and can not do. Out of the two right now I think HitTail is the most useful to this blog, but time will tell. These are the first test results and a short review of what HitTail and Authorati do/promise to do. The blogtools I often use were allready mentioned in Blogger tools, also for SL Bloggers.

HitTail.com

HitTail.com (basic, which is free) promises to reveal in real-time the least utilized, most promising keywords hidden in the Long Tail of your natural search results. We present these terms to you as suggestions that when acted on can boost the natural search results of your site. It’s that simple.

Basically, they take the ‘long tail’ (less common search queries which lead to your site) and suggest keywords for you to blog about based on that ‘long tail’ and a - only god and the hittail people know which - algorithm.

I like the idea, because indeed, I was already longtime thinking of answering some ‘often posed questions which lead to my site but aren’t actually answered on this site’ - Google search queries which I see through Google Analytics - but was to lazy to sort them out. HitTail makes that job more easy.

What did HitTail index for VintFalken.com (after +- 36 hours)?

What does HitTail suggest I should blog about?

• age play (Nah. It’s not gone because of the Linden ban anyway. Just a bit more ‘underground’.)
• second life templates (Maybe I should create a better template for the SL Bikini project. I do know more about bikini lines now.)
• second life multiple avatars free (I’m not going to make a complete avie. Although Storm Thunders has an interesting idea on that! Hear him out!)
• neko in second life (That’s me! Almost full time now. ;))
• free clothes (Reminds me to finish the ‘Cross’ outfit.)
• second life building skyboxes (Maybe refer them to Tiana Meriman?)
• photoshop blur tutorial (Wow. I’m sure there are better non-SL related tutorials on that than the ones I wrote.)
• second life create skin (Well. I was planning to create a skin that actually matches my RL head. Might as well document that on vintfalken.com.)

Vint’s temporary judgement:

Neat to check on once in a while when I’m out of ‘to blog about’. Although with the amount of things in Second Life to blog about, that will be nowhere soon. Or should I aim for more Google hits? (Search engines are already responsible for about 50% of my blog traffic.)

Authorati

What does Authorati promises? Authorati is a portable ratings service that allows readers to rate your blog posts. In addition, the tags you specify are assigned an authority rating which helps build your reputation and visibility online.

In Vintish Authorati is a way to tag & judge on a blogpost’s content - opposed to technorati, which just tags. It could also help to get an ‘autority’ ranking on certain topics (they do have an ‘authority badge’ to display on your blog). Veyron, strippers for you? Readers (which have an Authorati account?) can easily vote on if your post matches the tags you added to it and judge your authority on those and your main blog tags.

If you are using FeedBurner’s FeedFlare’s - as I do - it’s easy to implement Authorati in your blogposts. If not, you will need to go through some more hassle.

For VintFalken.com, the first problem I occured was the question ‘What are the topics you predominatly blog about?‘ As you can see on my authorati profile, I chose ’second life’, ‘metaverse’, ‘3d world’, ‘avatar behaviour’, ‘SL photography’, ‘SLex’, ‘SL Security’, ‘RL/SL Crossover’ (change to mixed media?), ‘SL Blogs’, ‘SL Politics’ and ‘SL Art’. I sort of am not very happy with those, so if anybody has any better suggestions… .

Vint’s temporary judgement:

I’m mainly curious if anybody will actually vote and how they will vote. Besides maybe some on SL Photography, I do not claim to have any authority. For seeing any benefits of using this site, I haven’t explored it enough yet. I’m wondering, though, if Metaversed, 3pointD, VTOR, SecondLifeInsider, the Second Life Herald and such are going to ‘hunt’ for authority on Second Life. And Zoe on Steampunk? ;)

Tags: authorati, blogtools, hittail

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