Category: Blogging

After The T-List: The L-List

On 7th March Paul Johnson of A Luxury Travel Blog launched the L-List

Calling all luxury bloggers!

Inspired by the recent T-List that’s doing the rounds, I thought it’s about time we started an L-List. As you may have guessed, L-List stands for Luxury List, and it provides luxury bloggers a means of being discovered. You might be blogging about any aspect of the luxury arena… cars… fashion… food and wine… travel… whatever. My goal is simple: I want the hard work of many luxury bloggers out there (Allison, Ava, Courtney, Deidre, Mary, Nicole, etc. – note to self: where are all the male luxury bloggers?!) to be recognized and hopefully the L-List can help in achieving that.

Pffff I am counting already 27 Blogs…What do I add?

Happy Reading over the weekend!

Well, I did believe I Blog about Luxury Travel and Luxury Accommodation…if you don’t believe me, please check out Happy Hotelier’s Luxury Tag, but alas I didn’t make it (yet) to the L-List (-:.

Look here for Paul’s Technorati Ranking.

Finally: From now on I will try to stay away from Lists for some time, because it can easily become an addiction 🙂

Added 14 March:

Well nobody less than Mary Winston Nicklin of The Informed Traveller was so kind to add me to the list.

Aggregators, Splogs and content scrapers: Antileech

Spam

Splogs
Splogs is a contraction of Spam and Blogs. There are people who do not create their own content. They simply scrape the content from other Blogs to their own advantage. Usually their aim is to get some Google adword income.

Content scraping has a good side and a bad side:

Aggregating content in a Blog gives the same reading possibilities as you have with a news reader: A quick overview of content created by fellow Bloggers.

The E Hotelier Widget that I use in my sidebar is helpful to pinpoint interesting information from E-Hotelier which in my view is a good aggregator, as one sees an editor behind the postings.

The disadvantage of Splogs is that they sometimes create masses of unnecessary information and mislead sites as Technorati.

And now?

By keeping track of Happy Hotelier’s Technorati ranking, I noticed some of those scrapers between my incoming links.

Darren Cronian of Travel Rants Blog did some research and put the results on a separate Blog of him Blogged Out, especially in his post Take Steps To protect Your Content.

There I found the WP plug in Antileech [I removed the link because of the later problems, see below] which I immediately installed. it gives you the opportunity to block rss imports by sites you do not like: You simply put their URL in the WP plug in.

After a day Antileech suggests to block Google Reader…. I will have to look how that works. Apparently it provides a widget with abuse possibility. I will keep you posted.

(p.s. I added the spam photo on 16 March)

Update 2008:
I had to get rid of the plugin as it turned into a spammy tool itself. Don’t know how that happened.

Strange Technorati Change

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The T-list mania incurred my curiosity how the link counting at Technorati works.

I have seen my incoming links going up from 16 to 60, but yesterday – or today – Technorati seems to have changed its algorithm and I am down again to 23. It also seems that Technorati updates its link counting once every 24 hours. Strange huh?

Added 9 March 2007:

I found out the updating is more frequent and the total count of links is going up again.

Behind Open Doors

Yvonne D-L

Sometime somewhere in my newsreader I had seen a reference to her already, but today I stumbled again upon her Blog: Behind Open Doors, the personal Blog of another Hotelier, Yvonne Lembi-Detert, the owner of San Fransisco based Personality Hotels. Their site is also worthwhile to explore.
To see from the photo Yvonne is a real Bed Jumper.

Added 1st April 2007:

It appears the lady has shut down her Blog.

E-Hotel: a Latvian Hotelier’s Blog

I found an incoming link from E-Hotel, a Blog that a Latvian Hotelier started recently.

Ehotel is written by a hotelier from Latvia, Europe with more than 4 year experience in hospitality business and MBA.

Working in a hotel and studying I have understood that there are many things I still don`t know about hotels and there are even more things that others don`t know about hotels. Many people think that one doesn`t need much knowledge to work in a hotel. At the same time hoteliers need to educate clients about how hotels operate, what are the rules etc. I hope this place will let to better understand the hotel business.

I think a Latvian Blog in English is a nice addition to the Travel Blogging community.

Update

November 30, 2009. I have erased the url, because this blog has become another member of the Great Dead Travel Blog Society since there is no action whatsoever anymore.