This is of no interest to anyone other than fellow bloggers I guess but just as an indication of relative merit of Thanet blogs, I give you the independent rankings for March courtesy of Wikio . How reliable these rankings are, is questionable but being at the top of the pile however briefly, beats my more comfortable underdog placing. And whilst I might be at the top this month, the ranking for this month is lower than last and with the exception of ThanetOnline all of us appear to be slipping on earlier months.
| Bignews Margate | 852 |
| From one end of Kent | 926 |
| ThanetOnline | 1046 |
| Thanet Press Releases | 1173 |
| Thanet Star | 1426 |
| Thanet Life | 1818 |
| Promote Thanet | 3186 |
| Thanet Coast | 3221 |
Of course, that which is the most gratifying part of blogging is the reaction and comments, which are probably as important in ranking terms the actual posting, anyhow thanks and keep visiting.
It's meaningless drivel unless you understand how they are categorised!
ReplyDeleteSo Matt and DrM both use domains e.g. Thanet Star and ThanetLife.com so Wikio won't treat them the say way as a blogger domain.
Tony thanks for that, web statistics fascinate me, and I have tried to make some sense of the Wikio ones, for a while thanetonline vanished altogether from their site and then reappeared.
ReplyDeleteThe disparity between thatnetonline Pageviews last month 17,379 and Thanet Press Releases Pageviews last month 5,360 doesn’t seem to be reflected in the Wikio rankings.
As a non blogger, but enthusiastic follower of Thanet blogs, this ranking system beats me.
ReplyDeleteMark Nottingham posted nothing for months, then one slagging off his own party, which he then withdrew, another spell of silence and recently back with a couple of items that have attracted minimal comment. How does that get you second compared say with Thanetonline which is a fund of information. Weird!!
No doubt the Nottingham site has had loads of visits from paranoid colleagues who are afraid he might have posted something else!
ReplyDeleteGood point, Anon, I never thought of that. Guess Clive has been checking it every few minutes.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course defensive Tories looking for more to exploit in order to deflect attention away from the real issues they are failing to tackle locally.
ReplyDeleteI thought I read elsewhere that Tories were banned from commenting on the issue as it serves the party's purpose to keep Clive Hart in situ. Makes a lot of sense with an election coming up.
ReplyDeleteThe whole saga shows are marked lack of postings by the likes of Wells, Gregory and Moores I think you will note. Bluenote just does his own thing.
Hate to disappoint as usual but nobody is banned from anything! Like everyone else I guess we are simply watching from the sidelines and letting them get on with it.
ReplyDelete10.21 has a good point as Wikio has an unusual way of calculating its rankings and if you happen to blog via a .com redirected domain it does seem to get confused!
Well you would say that wouldn't you, the idea that you are one boring fart would not occur to you.
ReplyDeleteProbably not but there is a counter on my sidebar so even the most maths challenged can work it out for themselves.
ReplyDeleteAs I wrote earlier, it's how a weblog is categorised that counts, so measuring one in one category against one in another can be as useful as comparing apples and oranges and if you don't believe me then go look for yourself!
After all, if you believe Wikio then Mark's weblog which has had no content for months enjoys an unrepresentative score
Ever the competitor!
ReplyDeleteEver the competitor!
ReplyDeleteDrM bit challenged by your counter, challenged trying to find it, perhaps it fell off.
ReplyDeleteRight at the end of all the links on the right sidebar where it's always been. To be honest having been running for such a long time I don't normally look as it's perched down there but as the number of local internet blog readers grows, so does page traffic, which appears to have been over 10,500 last month
ReplyDeleteit'll be the respective size of motor vehicles next, with all that signifies.
ReplyDeleteYou asked the question and I gave you the answer! It's not a comparison with anyone or anything, simply a fact!
ReplyDeleteI won't comment anymore. I was only offering a view on the somewhat uncertain science of blog rankings which are, as I said, pretty meaningless unless you understand the metrics that govern them.
A point of clarification here, on the uncertain science of counters, ratings and blogs, nothing to do with the argument here that I don’t really understand.
ReplyDeleteThere are two types of counters on the blogs that I know of ones like the ones on my thatnetonline blog they just go up by one every time someone looks at the blog and the ones like the one on Simon’s blog Thanet Life, which is a new type of counter that came out recently and is linked to the blogger statistics that started last July, this uses JavaScript and shows the number of people who visited that site during the last month, this type of counter goes up and down, reflecting the blogs popularity
There are several types of blog, those hosted on blogger, with a blogger web address those hosted in other places, Wikio looks at a number of different factors, in the first instance if the thing is hosted on blogger than at least being a machine it knows it is looking a t a blog. Some of these factors have bizarre results, for instance it seems to rate blogs higher that have more links on them higher so having advertising on your blog may raise the rating.
Most of the blogs on Wikio are only in the general category, some have different rankings in specialist categories as well, Thanet Life rates 242 in the political blog ratings as well as 1818 in the general category.
Whoever exposes the criminal activities of these will become the top blogger, guaranteed !
ReplyDeleteThe Government Corporation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2OfFSlylkQ&feature=player_embedded
Bat and ball packed up and taken home by the spoilt one in the corner of the playground...
ReplyDeleteEveryone could just sign-up to Google Analytics and get proper informative stats from there. Job done and a lot more reliable than many other stats website/software.
ReplyDeleteCrikey I didn't think this would provoke any comment, as I suggested its questionable, as is the joy from reading technical explainations particularly those like Moores although anon 2 45 seemed to nail it with "you would say that" still the language thereafter is borderline.
ReplyDeleteI doubt I'm the most popular blog although and I'm sure, the Thanet Press Blog probably has similar numbers but which is most likely to get you fired up.
Enjoy Bignews Margate currently the best rated Thanet blog because all the others smell! ;~)
Tony I want to know how come ECR is high up in the rankings. No one reads my blog so where ever it comes is irrelevant. I blog about rubbish and then when I hit a raw nerve with the local population they all jump on my back. I watched the article aboutblogging on the culture show last week anf the guy fro a newspaper the Telegraph I think showed how he got 2,000 coments a post and most were defamatory rather than pushing the debate. We get a bit of that locally but not to the tune of 2,000 a post.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm. Interesting. I wonder where my one ranks!
ReplyDeleteWhat can I say, Don I chose to blog about the local area as you yourself have, its a limited pool.
ReplyDeleteHow do I find out the ranking for Thanet Waves?
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