You know, I’ve noticed that all we have done is consistently drop in ranking since we joined the Webcomic List. In the span of four months, we’ve dropped more than 3,000 ranks, and I’m starting to wonder how exactly ranking is determined. The actual website has this in their faq: “The ranking algorithm works by considering the number of visits per update. We do this to ensure that popular comics that update infrequently get a fair ranking. Certain other things are taken into consideration when doing comic rankings but we would prefer to keep those secret.” I’m wondering if that you don’t get rankings if that perl script doesn’t go and call your comic and then people click on it to see the latest updates. If that’s the case, then Bladen Force will never go up in ratings, since the XDL comic system Chaz programmed doesn’t have an actual “latest comic” page. I imagine the “secret” thing is that Tim Buckley slips some $100 bills under the table to keep CAD up there in rankings above PA, PvP and Bob and George.

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