Blog Brags Worth Writing About

Google has finally restored PageRank to this website, back to the #3 rating it had dropped to late last year (from 5). SEO Moz, on the other hand, upped their estimate to a full 5.0 (see badge at the top of the left column), and I breezed through another blog valuation site last night that gave us a 5.5. Strangely, Google also lists almost a thousand back links!

Sweeter, though, was the email received yesterday from Amy Liu at Blogged because she said:

Our editors recently reviewed your blog and have given it an 8.2 score out of (10) in the Entertainment category of Blogged.com.

This is quite an achievement!...

We evaluated your blog based on the following criteria: Frequency of Updates, Relevance of Content, Site Design, and Writing Style.

After carefully reviewing each of these criteria, your site was given its 8.2 score.

We’ve also created Blogged.com score badges with your score prominently displayed. Simply visit your website’s summary page on Blogged.com:

... Please accept my congratulations on a blog well-done!!

You can see the listing and add comments or a review and help make this blog a full 10.

This must be my week, because I also learned that A Writer's Edge is now listed on the Publish-L web page of Subscriber Links, vetted by the list mom (owner), Pat Gundry. It's an honor to be included, and I thank Pat profusely for all her good work managing this most informative mailing list.

All this comes on top of last week's coveted "Recommended" status in the Preditors & Editors guides to services for writers. Combine all these heady accolades with an overflow of work flooding my way (feast or famine), and I'm falling off my rolling desk chair. One of these jobs may become a steady blogging gig, so stay tuned for further announcements.