Ah, wouldn't you want to see how your blog fair in the blogosphere? Surely, one way or another, you must have wondered, at least once or twice, how well (or bad) your blog is doing in the blog world.
Blog Rankings.
This is the key to getting your site noticed on the web. The higher your ranking is, the higher the traffic your blog would mostly likely get. When you say traffic, that would be the amount of visitors and visits your site receives.How Is This Measured.
There are several tools to use so you can measure your blog's ranking.The most popular ones are Page Rank and Alexa.Page Rank.
Google page rank is the rank that is given to every website that is indexed by Google.The page rank numbers indicate how important each site is based on a number between zero and 10. A new site starts with a page rank of zero, and the largest, most important sites on the Internet have a 10.Google itself has a page rank of 10 while Yahoo has a nine.Suite101
More on Page Rank and how the ranking is computed:
Google Page Rank Basics
Alexa Rank.
The Alexa Rank is much like the Google Rank, with one main difference: it is exclusively based on page views, number of users and three months of historical data. SubmitSuite
More on Alexa, how it affects your blog and how to improve your ranking: What Is Alexa Ranking?
Aside from the mentioned, there are still other popular tools available like Compete and Technorati.
Compete.
Compete estimates site traffic and engagement metrics based on the daily browsing activity of over 2,000,000 U.S. Internet users. Compete applies a rigorous normalization methodology, leveraging scientific multi-dimensional scaling (by age, income, gender and geography) to ensure metrics are representative of the U.S. Internet population. Compete members are recruited through multiple sources, including ISPs, the Compete Toolbar and additional opt-in panels to ensure a diverse distribution of user types and to facilitate de-biasing across the data sources.Compete
More on Compete and how their ranking is computed:
Compete, Free Website Ranking And Analytics
Technorati Authority.
Technorati Authority is the number of blogs linking to a website in the last six months. The higher the number, the more Technorati Authority the blog has. Technorati Blog
More on Technorati and how to increase your authority:
Technorati Authority and Rank
Don't you sometimes wish you can put them all together in one simple and tidy badge/widget?
Thanks to ShowOffRankings, you now can.
ShowOffRankings.
ShowOffRankings is a widget that provides a simple and elegant representation of your site's rankings.This currently includes:
Google Page Rank
Alexa Traffic Ranking
Compete Snapshot Rank
Technorati Rank
Live Demo:
How To Install ShowOffRankings.
Follow this simple steps.(1) Go to ShowOffRanking home page.
(2) Enter domain in the domain bar.
(3) Check all rankings that you would like to include.
View Full Size
(4) Click GENERATE CODE. Upon clicking the button, two types of code will be shown.
a. Add the first code (CSS) before the closing tag of the document head:
</head>
b. Add the second code (JS) where you want the widget to be displayed.
NOTE: The PageRank detection algorithm doesn’t work on a lot of servers and is in fact against Google’s Terms of Service. For now, you need to specify your own PageRank. Jon Lee
To check for your own page rank, visit MyPageRank.Net
If the page rank doesnt automatically update on this widget, try clearing your cache/cookies and restart firefox.
More info about this widget:
ShowoffRankings - Not just for Wordpress
This Blog's Ranking and Credits.
Here's the result for my blog:
^_^
Let me take this opportunity to thank my very good buddy, Technomedic, for sharing the great news about this blog's Google PR Ranking. Thanks a lot, buddy! ^_^
After maintaining this blog for only a couple of months and not being that faithfully regular in posting, it came a surprise to know that this has a PR of 1 and an alexa ranking of 857127, woohoo! ^_^
I would like to extend my thanks to the first group of people who'd been with me since the start: technomedic, xjion, andri and luckylady
Thanks for the support: blackzero, raju, anurag, dave, everybodygeek, skicekegan, and TK; lando, copywriter, atenean, widgets for blogger, myblogpress
to all followers, rss subscribers, link partners, commentors.
to my RL friends/colleagues: crazymama, daddyprofessor, mitchteryosa; wendyang, kbladez, jhayghost.
thanks a whole bunch! ^_^
Resources:
http://onlinepublishing.suite101.com/article.cfm/google_page_rank_basics
http://www.submitsuite.com/blog/lesson-2-google-page-rank-and-alexa-rank-33
http://www.thenetfool.com/alexa-ranking/
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/compete-free-website-ranking-analytics/
http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/05/354.html
http://socialsourcecommons.org/tool/show/2702/
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/goodbye-page-strength-hello-trifecta-seomozs-latest-analysis-tool
http://www.jonlee.ca/showoff-rankings-not-just-for-wordpress/
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