But the situation is different on the net, where the blog and website are faceless . So this is how numbers came in handy to determine how good they’re and their owner. I have ideas to came out with a compilation of numbers that is recognized, widely used and very valuable to most webmasters when I do self-assessment. The list is not in order thought, but at least it paint a basic ideas of where you’re at.

It is the most sought after numbers among all. Page rank (or known mostly as PR) is a Google’s own proprietary technology to determine the importance of a website. Websites are ranked from 0 to 10. Only a handful of websites have PR10. Having higher PR will benefit you in many aspects such as traffic, how fast your page will be indexed, your ranking (not necessarily true), and most importantly, how much your site is worth in advertisement. Even though this is not 100% accurate, but in reality, page rank determines almost everything that you need.

• link building
  • Inbound and outbound link
  • Internal linking
  • links from .edu domain
  • link exchange
  • buy text link ads
• Submit articles to article directories - The structure of articles which allows you to put your link at the end of your article, or known as resource box
• Submit your websites to web directories esuch as DMOZ and Yahoo
• Or, if you’re too lazy to do this, use 3waylinks.com

Webworkshop has a very long and detailed article explaining what page rank is. Be aware that this article is quite technical for most of us, including me. Other resources on which you can refer to are fellow Malaysian at easywordpress and webpronews.

According to Technorati -

• 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 Rank - It’s calculated based on how far you are from the top. The blog with the highest Technorati Authority is the #1 ranked blog. The smaller your Technorati Rank, the closer you are to the top.

• Tag your articles - use plugin such as Ultimate Tag Warrior. But for version 2.3, this is a built-in function, no need to worry about this
• Use multi ping service. The default ping is http://rpc.pingomatic.com/, which is the default setting in Worpress
• Join link-bait or link-train like this
• Create your own template and distribute it for free. Since the new way of calculating how much your Technorati Authority is  by the number of blogs linking to a website in the last six months, this is perhaps a quite efficient way to work on
• Use blog carnival. Does anyone know if this work?

So far, Alexa is the only ranking that I manage to have a better ranking from time to time.

S chicklet shows how many readers are subscribing to your content. The number of readers is important especially to attract new visitors to subscribe to your feed. There is little debate on whether you should show the number of readers that you might have. Some said not to display it if your readers is less than 100, while others said 500.

Personally, I prefer to display the number of readers once it had reached 100. 500 is a long way to go. And if you notice, I haven’t displayed the number of readers that I have. So if you read this article, please subscribe to it immediately, so that I can display the RSS chicklet sooner.

• Display your RSS feed in a prominent position
• Put small notes at the end of you post to encourage user to subscribe to your RSS
• Offer full RSS instead of partial RSS
• Make the RSS registration short
• Use comment relish plugin to send email to first time commentator
• Use RSS Signature plugin to insert your notes of subscribing to your content, in case the read your content not from RSS reader

Izea Real Rank is the brainchild of the company behind PayPerPost (PPP). This idea is materialized after most PPP members were punished by Google by stripping/reducing the participants page rank. To be ranked, you’re required to register with them and install the provided script. I’m not a PPP member and have no clear visibility of how it works, and how this rank can help you in other areas except for PPP. But more or less, the tool provided statistical tool for your website. Unless your blog doesn’t have any stat script installed, you might one using this

Other than that, I’m curios how Google reaction against this ranking system and the participated websites. Since this ranking system was used to determine how much your website worth in PPP, could it give impression that all participant is PPP member who wrote sponsored post

How it is measured?

The system weights blogs 70% on daily unique visitors, 20% by daily active inbound links and 10% by daily page views as reported by ITK

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