Saw your blog [great blog BTW!]
Incidentally, edit your post to remove "Automatically retrieve titles from external links". We need to name and shame.
I'm well aware that the coding standard in the majority of web designers websites is less than non existant.
So obviously they aren't judged on technical compitance.
What are they judged on?
There is nothing special about them. There is nothing that makes me stand back and ghasp "WOW!". They are bog ordinary sites.
How did they get there?