How to sort a list of blogs according to their index of Technorati popularity?
In the preceding article, we learned how to serve to us as the XScrape free software, which makes it possible to extract from the data of the Web. We will use it today in a practical example: the sorting of a list of blogs according to their Technorati index.
The index of popularity of a blog, within the meaning of Technorati, corresponds to the number of blogs different which binds towards this blog. It is not inevitably an indication of quality but an indicator of the influence of the blog in the blogosph�re, which can be also related to the capacities of the author to promote his blog. It is thus logical to be interested in it in order to study the methods of the blogueurs who succeeded in making their hole.
To consult the index of Technorati of a blog, anything simpler: it is enough to consult the page http://www.technorati.com/blogs/ {adresse_du_blog_voulu}. Consequently, it seems easy to automate the recovery of the index of Technorati of several blogs thanks to XScrape.
In order to make our company interesting, we will lean on the list of blogs of personal development of Priscilla Palmer (eh yes, I is not wearied any;). The sorting of the list of Priscilla will proceed in 4 distinct phases:
- Automatic recovery of the bonds of the blogs of the page of Priscilla Micrometer caliper
- Transformation of these bonds into Technorati bonds
- Automatic recovery of the Technorati indices of all blogs
- Sorting of information obtained
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