How Bad Is Your Blog?

Posted on 21. Aug, 2007 by in Website Traffic

There comes a time in a young entrepreneur’s life, where being serious just doesn’t cut it anymore. Sure, you should take your business seriously (like blogLOUDER) and your contacts and online pals, but sometimes you just need to lighten up and have a bit of fun.


For a while now, I’ve wanted to start up and own my own funny blog tool. I’ve seen the “How Much Is Your Blog Worth?” widget and the “Bloglebrity” tool and dreamed of having something that would be laughable at, and would attract links at the same time.

Out of the whole project, finding a programmer was the hardest part. I knew that I had contacts, but a lot of them were busy with their own sites or had client work, or didn’t know enough programming to take us through. However, after a bit of searching and pot luck, I got in touch with Sarah, after having been a long-term RSS subscriber to her feed (as she was to mine) and having chatted to her in various blog comments.

After a week of planning and finally piecing the tool together, along with some fantastic design work from Deron Sizemore, Sarah and Adnan are proud to present:

How Bad Is Your Blog?

The tool is pretty easy to use. Simply type your blog URL in and choose whether you want an offensive or nice rating (these will become apparent as you use the tool). A results page will then show the amount of inbound links you have (in the past 6 months) according to Technorati and then will show a quote and an image. Here’s mine:

I was out getting feed subscribers and making a few dollars, whilst you were crapping in your hands and rubbing it all over your blog, whilst broadcasting it to those few unlucky RSS readers.

The quote is supposed to be funny and I’ve racked up some good ones from films – so I hope they’ll give you a laugh. If you are the type of person who gets offended easily, then choose the “Nice” option – but remember, this tool is only a bit of fun and in no way reflects my real feelings about you ;)

The images too are pretty funny (especially for the low rankings in the “Offensive” section). If you so wish to make a post about the tool, then all you have to do is copy and paste the Javascript into your blog post or sidebar if you want. This will make sure that the image updates as your backlinks increase!

Below the tool, the rankings are explained and there is also a small disclaimer, just in case I get into trouble with those who don’t feel particularly humourous today!

Anyway, try it out, have a laugh, and if you want to – give us a much needed Digg to make sure that our cheery message reaches around the blogosphere!

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19 Responses to “How Bad Is Your Blog?”

  1. Jarkko Laine

    21. Aug, 2007

    Hey Adnan! This is cool :)

    In the nice version I was told that my blog could buy me a couple of beers… I won’t go into the offensive one, but they were both funny!

    Thanks for making me smile today :)

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  2. Deron Sizemore

    21. Aug, 2007

    Wow, those illustrations are like, the best I’ve ever seen! ;)

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  3. Michael from Pro Blog Design

    21. Aug, 2007

    Haha – Nice to see you’ve finished the tool. Lookin’ good. :lol:

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  4. Erik Karey

    21. Aug, 2007

    Haha, nice work Adnan and Deron.

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  5. Matt Jones

    21. Aug, 2007

    Adnan lol! That is great :) (Dugg). How much did you end up paying to get it working?

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  6. WordPress Blog Advice

    21. Aug, 2007

    Nice.

    Innovation is the key, though the idea is not new but the way you presented it is very good. Liked it a lot.

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  7. adnan

    21. Aug, 2007

    Hey guys:

    @ Jarkko – lol no probs. Unfortunately the more I read the comments, the less funny they become :(

    @ Deron – tell me about it. Some super-talented designer must have done those.

    @ Michael and Erik – thanks guys!

    @ Matt – LOL thanks for the Digg too. In the end, it was free because I teamed up with Sarah. In sorta return I let her put her Adsense down – but she was very generous – great to work with.

    @ WordPress Blog Advice – thanks man.

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  8. sarahG

    21. Aug, 2007

    Adnan, it was fun to do :)

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  9. Chris Juneau

    21. Aug, 2007

    My blog is not worth a crap. LOL. This was great fun!

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  10. ejoe

    22. Aug, 2007

    Hey! even my nice one wasnt nice at all. haha

    Funny

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  11. Brian Purkiss

    22. Aug, 2007

    lol
    If yours is a pile of monkey crap, I’d hate to see what mine is!

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  12. Anujk

    22. Aug, 2007

    Cheers!! Deron , Sarah and Adnan this is a great job done… and just loved those quotes… quiet funny… :)

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  13. Josh Mullineaux

    22. Aug, 2007

    Awesome man! I happy that you released it. Very funny BTW!

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  14. Marc Eilbeck

    22. Aug, 2007

    nice work lol very funny

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  15. adnan

    22. Aug, 2007

    LOL thanks for the kind comments guys, and the main thing is that you enjoyed it all and found it the least bit humourous.

    The tool got buried on Digg :(. Hopefully I should start to see some good backlinks soon though!

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  16. DayJobNuker

    23. Aug, 2007

    I can never understand why all these tools give me vastly different results in the “inbound links”. They vary from the high teens on some tools to over 600 in others. How come?

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  17. Sarah

    24. Aug, 2007

    DayJobNuker, just had to dig your comment out of Akismet. Strange it was there! Anyhow, as for the Technorati tool and differing results, Technorati seems quite precise at times in which address gets what inbound links, eg. www vs non-www, the link with a forward slash at the end, and without. For example my old blog domain 301′s to my new one but Technorati won’t pick that up at all.

    Of course if you check with the same domain on every tool then it is simply down to what Technorati is sending back. Why it differs, honestly couldn’t say. It’s what they’re reporting which of course is out of our hands.

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  18. Terinea Weblog

    28. Aug, 2007

    Maybe my monthly post “How good is your business blog”, will be rename to “How bad is your business blog”

    Jamie

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