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Problem With Ranking

Posted by chrisesty • 12/15/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: Ranking

How is it that my blog is ranking much lower than some blogs that are new to Blogcatalog and have fewer friends, while I have hundreds of friends and have been here longer?

Is there something wrong with the ranking system? It just doesn't make sense to me why this is happening.

I used to have a higher ranking. Am I doing something wrong?

User Comments

12/15/08

thegoodknife

which ranking are you referring to? anything over 30 is a good Blog Rank, and your user ratings average to an almost perfect 5 stars. I think youre doing quite well.

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1. 12/15/08
  
  chsegersmom
  
  so if our BC ranking is over 30, that's good?
  I think mine is like, 40something...not sure...too old to remember.
12/15/08

chrisesty

In the Religion and Christianity directories

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1. 12/15/08
  
  thegoodknife
  
  Your blog is in the top 10 out of almost 3000 blogs in religion,
  www.blogcatalog.com/directory/religion Thats pretty good. The algorithm for determining rank takes into account a lot of different factors including number of fans, detail pages hits and views, whether you have a widget or not, and your reviews, and recent activity in all of those mentioned fields usually count for more then old activity. Keep doing what you're doing and you'll be on top pretty soon.
2. 12/15/08
  
  chrisesty
  
  Maybe I should try to change my title to get more organic traffic. Will that make a significant difference with my ranking in here?
12/15/08

Anok

We have ranks?!

Holy crap

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12/15/08

siralmo

yeh i didn't know that, where do we find them??

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1. 12/15/08
  
  thegoodknife
  
  www.blogcatalog.com/account
  
  Blog Rank - a special formula that analyzes your hits, views, comments, neighborhood members and other special secret ingredients to create a numeric score based on a 100 point scale. Your Blog Rank is primarily used to determine the order blogs appear in our Directory and Search Results. The higher your score the better your placement.
2. 12/15/08
  
  Anok
  
  Oh wow, I really should have known that.
  
  /slips away unnoticed and embarrassed....
3. 12/15/08
  
  Anok
  
  I was so embarrassed, I posted twice!
4. 12/15/08
  
  siralmo
  
  hahahaha awesome im doing alot beter than i thought i would
12/15/08

Phoenix1962

There is a BC badge you can add to your blog, it shows your rank. I am at 60.

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12/16/08

jsalfian

This Blog Has a Rank ?
Where is it ? ;-(

The Higher the Score, the Better the Placement ?
1 to 10 a Good Rank ?
or
Thousand and more...a good rank ?
Still confused....

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1. 12/16/08
  
  chrisesty
  
  Quality of content is always most important. But if you don't rank well you won't get as much traffic. The more traffic you get to your blog the more people will read it. So its not an issue of wanting to be esteemed as better than anyone else. It is a matter of wanting to rise higher in the search results so that you will get more traffic to your blog.
  
  Therefore, how you rank is very important as it will play a major factor in determining how many people visit your blog.
  
  After all, if you are on page 20 how many people are going to go through all of those pages to find you? Many people stop on page two of the search results; and even more people won't go past the first page. But if you are in the top ten it would be much better because you are more visible to people who would likely not even go to page two. Hence you will gain more traffic to your blog.
  
  You can have great content; but if its not being read what kind of impact or influence will it have? The idea is to get as many people to your blog as you can so that you can get them to read that content. And the best way to do that is to rank well.
  
  Does this make sense?
12/16/08

reborn4papua

whether rank as important than the content of blog?

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12/16/08

mikeny07

Many of my music blogs are 56. The 70s though is 38. Same layout and content; just 70s music. Maybe some don't like disco?

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12/16/08

timethief

Boosting your BC blog rank
tigerbeat.blogcatalog.com/post/35037361/boosting-your-blogrank

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12/16/08

jsalfian

I See,
and absolutely agree with you.

have you seen My Blog ?
Look into My Rank...
Is it Good or Bad ?
I have no idea....

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12/16/08

timethief

@jsalfian
This thread is only discussing your blog's rank at Blog Catalog. By clicking the "Manage Blogs" link on your BC Profile page you will find yours.
* Blog Rank:___ of 100
* Recent Views:
* Recent Hits:
* Total Views:
* Total Hits:

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