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Posted by Michael D Jensen on January 16th, 2007
The Missing MyBlogLog Tools, created by SoloSEO.com, give you a new way to harness the power of MyBlogLog. These tools let you compare and find contacts and communities in a new and powerful way. Our tools go beyond the basic searching and browsing available at MyBlogLog by relying on the networks created between MyBlogLog users and Blog communities.
These tools will help you to find contacts to add and communities to join, plus compare visitors and community members of your blog with other blogs. The following tools are available for your enjoyment:
Compare Blog Visitors
Ever wondered what other blogs your visitors are reading? With this tool you can compare your visitors with another blog’s visitors. Up to 130 of the last visitors are compared from each blog, and MyBlogLog members in common are displayed. Go »
Compare Your Contacts
See what other contacts your friends, industry leaders, and fellow blog readers have that you share and that you don’t have added yet. Just plug in your screen name and someone else’s. Go »
Compare Community Members
With this tool you can compare your MyBlogLog Community members with another community, and view members common between both blogs as well as members unique to each blog. Go »
Common Communities between Contacts
If you need help finding communities, see what communities your contacts share! This tool lets you choose up to 20 contacts to compare common communities, and gives you a link to quickly join the communities! Go »
Show All Visitors
Most blogs just show 5-10 MyBlogLog visitors, so usually that’s all we look at. This tool lets you see the last 130 visitors to all of your communities, all at once! Go »
Add Missing Contacts
Even with 20 or 30 community members, it is hard to keep track of who you have added as a contact. This tool lets you quickly see who in your community have not been added as a contact yet. A link to add them quickly is included! Go »
We hope you enjoy The Missing MyBlogLog Tools and that you can find some interesting comparisons, new contacts to add, and new communities to join.
If Yahoo/MyBlogLog is reading this, these tools would be great to implement as a part MyBlogLog. All we ask is for 1% of your acquisition price or a free trip to Yahoo headquarters. 
If you have suggestions for other “missing tools” for MyBlogLog, please leave a comment or send us an email. We also have a poll to vote for your favorite Missing MyBlogLog Tool. Enjoy!
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January 16th, 2007
Michael D Jensen
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Posted by Michael D Jensen on December 22nd, 2006
I was called out by Lisa Barone on my experiment to find out what was Santa’s Favorite Cookie, suggesting that Santa’s favorite cookie was not the Chocolate Chip Cookie, but rather the Sugar Cookie. Of course Lisa didn’t run the test as I suggested (or didn’t publish the results), so I thought I would do a once and for all, end all, experimental study on what is truly Santa’s Favorite Cookie.
The contenders will now include Sugar Cookies, Gingerbread Cookies, and Oatmeal Cookies, as well as the previous contenders, Oreos and Chocolate Chip Cookies. The same experiments will be run. All searches will include plural and singular forms of the cookie name, and the highest result will be used for comparison.
On to the experiments…
Experiment 1: I’m Feeling Lucky Result – Google has a feature called “I’m Feeling Lucky” that takes you immediately to the first site listed in their results. To complete this experiment, I simply typed in “What is Santa’s favorite cookie?” and then the cookie named on that page would gain a point.
Results for Experiment 1: Same outcome here, of course. A recipe for “Santa’s Favorite Cookie”, Original Nestlé Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies.
1 Point for Chocolate Chip Cookies
Experiment 2: Christmas Trend – Google Trends shows the popularity of keywords over time, which helps to see how common a keyword is during the season. For this experiment, the name of the cookies with the most popularity during Christmas time wins.
Results for Experiment 2:
View 2005 Trend
View 2004 Trend
1st place: Sugar Cookies
2nd place: Chocolate Chip Cookies
3rd place: Oatmeal Cookies
4th place: Gingerbread Cookies
5th place: Oreo Cookies
1 Point for Sugar Cookies
Experiment 3: Title Bout – Google has operators that can look for certain features within their database. The “allintitle” search operator shows only results that include the keywords in the title of the page (see the top of your browser). The cookie with the most page results for “santa” and the cookie name in the title wins.
Results for Experiment 3:
Sugar Cookie: 78 results
Chocolate Chip Cookies: 67 results
Gingerbread Cookies: 55 results
Oreo: 38 results
Oatmeal Cookies: 19 results
1 Point for Sugar Cookies
Experiment 4: Link Juice – Links are at the heart of the Internet, and for a link to occur someone had to type it in and put it there. So a link is like a “vote”, and the text that makes up the link (also called anchor text), tells you who (or what) the vote is for. Google has a quick way to search sites based on the link text, using the “allinanchor” search operator. The cookie with the most page results for “santa” and cookie name in the link text wins.
Results for Experiment 4:
Sugar Cookie: 1,430 results
Chocolate Chip Cookie: 1,360 results
Gingerbread Cookie: 1,120 results
Oreo: 1,120 results
Oatmeal Cookie: 1,090 results
1 Point for Sugar Cookies
Experiment 5: Ask the Bloggers – I used Google’s Blog Search to identify which cookie is Santa’s favorite according to the Blogosphere. For this experiment, I searched for “santa’s favorite cookie” along with the cookie name in Google Blog Search.
Results for Experiment 5:
Sugar Cookie: 4,232 results
Chocolate Chip Cookie: 3,014 results
Oreo: 1,287 results
Gingerbread Cookie: 432 results
Oatmeal Cookie: 410 results
1 Point for Sugar Cookies
The New Final Results: Santa’s Favorite Cookie is…
Sugar Cookies!
Sugar cookies wins as Santa’s Favorite Cookie, topping out 4/5 of the experiments in this study. I must admit I am surprised, but sugar cookies definitely wins this one, and I have to hand it to Lisa Barone for questioning my previous study and being right on with her own hypothesis.
My reasoning for leaving the Sugar Cookie out in the first place may have been biased for my own dislike for 95% of all recipes of sugar cookies I have tasted. Too crumbly, too dry, too hard, too much salt, etc. It’s hard to get sugar cookies just the way I like them. I prefer them with frosting anyway. But who really cares what I think, this is about Santa anyway.
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December 22nd, 2006
Michael D Jensen
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Posted by Michael D Jensen on December 21st, 2006
My 5-year old son asked me this year, “What is Santa’s favorite cookie”? Like most questions that I can’t officially answer, I turned to Google. Before I reveal Santa’s Favorite Cookie (no peeking down below!) let me share the 5 experiments I carried out using Google to identify Santa’s favorite cookie, along with each experiment’s results. The rules: the winner of each experiment gets one point, and the cookie with the most points is deemed “Santa’s Favorite Cookie”. These experiments were fully defined before being actually carried out, but I did have my eyes open so it is not a blind study.
First I narrowed it down to two contenders, Oreos and Chocolate Chip Cookies. Sure there could be other options, but there’s no doubt these are the two most popular cookies, at least in North America. Feel free to do your own experimental study with Peanut Butter Cookies, Gingerbread Cookies, Sugar Cookies, or whatever else you like, and report your findings in your own blog.
And now the experiments…
Experiment 1: I’m Feeling Lucky Result – Google has a feature called “I’m Feeling Lucky” that takes you immediately to the first site listed in their results. To complete this experiment, I simply typed in “What is Santa’s favorite cookie?” and then the cookie named on that page would gain a point.
Results for Experiment 1: A recipe for “Santa’s Favorite Cookie”, Original Nestlé Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies. 1 Point for Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Experiment 2: Christmas Trend – Google Trends shows the popularity of keywords over time, which helps to see how common a keyword is during the season. For this experiment, the name of the cookies with the most popularity during Christmas time wins.
Results for Experiment 2: View the comparison graph here. It is obvious that in 2004 and 2006 “chocolate chip cookies” was a more popular search. However, it’s looking like a tight race for 2006. 1 point for Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Experiment 3: Title Bout – For all you search marketers out there, the “allintitle” search operator shows only results that include the keywords in the title of the page (see the top of your browser). The cookie with the most page results wins, using the following searches: allintitle:santa oreo or allintitle:santa chocolate chip cookies
Results for Experiment 3: Oreo came in with 41 results, and Chocolate Chip Cookies with 67 results. 1 point Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Experiment 4: Link Juice – Links are at the heart of the Internet, and for a link to occur someone had to type it in and put it there. So a link is like a “vote”, and the text that makes up the link (also called anchor text), tells you who (or what) the vote is for. Google has a quick way to search sites based on the link text, using the “allinanchor” search operator. The cookie with the most page results wins, using the following searches: allinanchor:santa oreos or allinanchor:santa chocolate chip cookies.
Results for Experiment 4: This one was a tight race. Oreo comes in at 1,110 results, and Chocolate Chip Cookies at 1,240. 1 point Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Experiment 5: Ask the Bloggers – I used Google’s Blog Search to identify which cookie is Santa’s favorite according to the Blogosphere. For this experiment, I searched for santa’s favorite cookie oreo and santa’s favorite cookie chocolate chip cookies.
Results for Experiment 5: The bloggers have spoken. Oreo comes in at 1,277 results, and Chocolate Chip Cookies at 1,888. 1 point Chocolate Chip Cookies.
The Final Results: Santa’s Favorite Cookie is…
Chocolate Chip Cookies!
By unanimous results (5/5), Chocolate Chip Cookies must be Santa’s favorite cookie. Sorry Oreo! And if you need a recipe, I happen to have the best chocolate chip cookie recipe ever.
As a side note, I did buy a ten-pack of Oreos at Sam’s Club before running this experiment, so the results are surprising and require me to do some baking this weekend.
UPDATE: SEE THE SANTA’S FAVORITE COOKIE REMATCH
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December 21st, 2006
Michael D Jensen
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