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Putting it in the category to “force” your way up into the higher list isn’t fair if people are using it to find WordPress topics. Personally, I hate it when people assume that their blog is in a “WordPress” category just because it is run by WordPress. It makes it harder to find WordPress information because of that.

Well I’m not sure if I should be offended or not. Kind of seems like a “thanks for your compliment, now let me be rude to you in return” but I’m going to be optimistic and think you didn’t really mean it to sound the way it did.

I did not put my blog into the category to “force” my way up any list. I’ve registered at tons of directories and despite knowing choosing “entertainment” or “humor” as the category means I’ll have stiff competition and probably not get as high up the list as others, I still put my blog there. I don’t choose “personal” because if anyone’s paying attention, they’ll notice that I actually tell very little about myself here, preferring to entertain others instead.

I checked the categories before I joined there and this is what we’re limited to there:

“Art
Blog Software
– Blogger
– Blogspot
– Moveable Type
– WordPress
Coding
News
Personal
Religious
Technology
– Google
– SEO
Politics
Web Development”

So really… your suggestion “Categorizing posts and content is hard to do. Just keep thinking “how will people find this” and label it accordingly.” is well intended, but when applied to the choices they offer, leaves someone like me with no good option.

I’m sure others felt that way too. I checked the top 10 blogs in the WordPress category and they are as follows:

“1 – Walk-In For Jobs
(This blog contains information about current job postings and walkin interviews

10. LeechMe
Appz, Games, Movies and more on rs.com and like this.. “

It seems to me, that all of them except for yours, aren’t about WordPress tips. I checked the Blogger category, and the blogs listed there aren’t about Blogger tips and help either, rather most are blogs that would fit into an entertainment category. I checked the rules to see if it says anything about the 25% content you suggested and couldn’t find anything to tell us that’s the rule. I prefer not to automatically assume those people are trying to force their way up a list they don’t deserve to be on, I’m sure they, like me, just didn’t think they belonged anywhere else either. Had we stuck ourselves in any other category, the people on that list would be saying the same thing as you. Where does that leave us? I think most people with entertainment and humor blogs don’t know where to go, so end up choosing the category of the host they use for lack of having a better solution.

The rules are listed there as follows:

“We have a few rules here at Top100Bloggers.com — There aren’t a whole lot, just a few and we will always be monitoring sites to make sure all sites are in compliance of these rules.

How The Ranking works: The system looks at the highest number of unique visitors/hits each submited site receives and shows the most visited as the top ranked and so on in descending order. It also checks that the hits are uniqure thru IP filtering. Every 2 weeks this is reset to allow for a fresh start of the ranking as well.”

I then thought about the whole “forcing one’s way up the ranking” concept, but again, in the rules, we’re told the ranking has to do with unique hits, highest number of visitors each site receives and so forth. I don’t see how being in the “wrong” category will falsely give anyone a rank they don’t deserve. If you’re not getting the traffic, you’re not gettting the traffic.

I was very clear in my description of what’s offered here, so I doubt anyone looking for WordPress tips and help is going to be falsely drawn to my blog via the directory. Had they offered an entertainment category, I’d have chosen it as proven by clicking on virtually any button on my sidebar. You’d see I registered in that category where it was offered.

I think the lists might not be useful to a Lorelle, or a Scoble… but they are useful to those of us who have a long way to go before we get to that point. We’re just hoping to attract some new readers and have fun while we’re at it, possibly meeting new people and broadening our horizons.

So in all, despite not being sure if your reply here was a backhanded insult or not, I still want to offer my own thanks to you because your site does offer genuinely good information for people out there. I will still plug you, visit you and think good things about your site because it merits it. And I will try to consider that you didn’t mean your comment the way it sounded. After all, even the best of doctors sometimes have a lousy bedside manner!

Well I am with you 100%…no matter what!! So there!! Have a great day:)))and please don’t stop Mondays Melee…it really helps me a lot!! XX’S