How to sort a list of blogs according to their index of Technorati popularity?
In preceding article, we learned how to serve to us as the free software XScrape, which allows d’ to extract from the data of the Web. We go l’ to use aujourd’ today in a practical example: sorting d’ a list of blogs according to their Technorati index.
L’ index of popularity d’ a blog, within the meaning of Technorati, corresponds to the number of blogs different which binds towards this blog. This n’ is not inevitably an indication of quality but an indicator of l’influence blog in the blogosphère, which can be also related to the capacities of l’ author to promote his blog. It is thus logical of s’ y to interest so d’ to study the methods of the blogueurs who succeeded in making their hole.
To consult l’ index of Technorati d’ a blog, nothing simpler: it is enough to consult the page http://www.technorati.com/blogs/ {adresse_du_blog_voulu}. Consequently, it seems easy d’ to automate the recovery of l’ index of Technorati of several blogs thanks to XScrape.
In order to make our company interesting, we will lean on list blogs of personal development of Priscilla Micrometer caliper (eh yes, I m’ into tired step;). 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
