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Re: More fun with Canadian companies…

melle — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:57:09 -0000

Fixed, should work now.

Re: http://melle.ca/?p=2824

melle — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:01:25 -0000

Fear not! Your crack smoking isn't causing memory loss just yet. You did comment, but four of my posts vanished the other week for some reason, including that one, and your comment went with it, alas.

Re: Cuz I needed more reasons to hate Rogers…

melle — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:28:39 -0000

You're right, now that I look, the Grand River Brewing, Seeking Simone, and Unphotographable ones are missing as well. To the Google Reader mobile!

Thanks for the heads up. Kinda disappointed my conspiracy theory is shot, though. :)

Re: The 18 Hottest Men on Twitter

pirillo — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:42:36 -0000

Right here, yo.

Re: Anywhere but here.

melle — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:21:46 -0000

If you like I can send you a list of recommended places to try. We're no gastronomic paradise, but there are some decent eats in town. :)

Re: The Top Education Blogs | Social Media Explorer

melle — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:18:45 -0000

Hi Stephen,

2) Aggregated.

3) No, we don't use Alexa. Yes, we use what Technorati does, but a lot more sources, too. (They only use trackbacks.) Our sources are listed here: http://www.postrank.com/postrank#how - and on our site you can see them when you mouse over PostRank scores as well.

4) Given that you can game Google PageRank the same way if you really want to, I don't think there's an iron-clad defence for this at this point. And really, most dedicated publishers I know invest a fair bit of effort growing their audiences and communities, and don't focus so much on trying to game systems. Those who do... I'm thinkin' it probably shows in their content pretty quickly.

5) Splogs are pretty much what you just described there when content is just re-posted. And if a fairly mainstream site does it and gets noticed, there are legal repercussions. When content is only somewhat re-posted... well, frankly, that happens all the time. Big stories get picked up by lots of people, often with very little variation in the content. Those who get more engagement on their version tend to just be those with bigger/more engaged audiences. Just being first doesn't necessarily mean the content's going to be the best.

6) Correct. It's something we've discussed and may implement in the future. No ETA at the moment, though.

7) No, we don't do engagement authority, nor do we have any plans to. Too subjective and variable. An audience member from one demographic might have a much more valid opinion to one publisher than to another, or one comment I publish might be eloquent and insightful, whereas another might just be, "Awesome!", etc.

Any other questions, please let us know. :)

Re: The Top Education Blogs | Social Media Explorer

melle — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:16:32 -0000

Jason's correct -- Engagement analysis isn't a public product yet. You can see it at work on the postrank.com homepage with a random assortment of sites from our system.

Engagement scores, however, are based on the analysis you can see on our website or in Google Reader -- the engagement metrics when you mouse over a PostRank score on the website, and the PostRank scores themselves. We just don't run the additional analysis to come up with a final score.

As Jason also noted, you can use what we call thematic PostRank, which compares your content to whatever complement of other content you choose by saving all the sites to the same Google Reader folder, installing our Google Reader extension, then viewing in folder view. That form of analysis compares apples to oranges, as it were, and ranks each site's content compared to the other sites you've selected. As I noted earlier, those, most of our analysis just focuses on your own site's content, so thematic PostRank isn't available in all formats.

Re: The Top Education Blogs | Social Media Explorer

melle — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:07:16 -0000

Hi Gary,

Engagement doesn't actually have anything to do with quantity or publishing volume. It relates to how much a site's readers engage with a site's posts regardless of how many there are. There's more info here: http://www.postrank.com/postrank/

So a person who publishes once a week could end up with a higher engagement score than someone who publishes 10 times a day. It depends on which site's readers engage more with the posts -- leaving comments, writing their own posts linking back, bookmarking, tweeting, etc.

Additionally, sites are analyzed on their own past performance, not against other sites (until Jason sorted the numbers by rank, of course), so despite being on the same list ultimately, another site's higher or lower ranking than yours won't affect your ranking, since there is no comparison between your site and others in our analysis.

Re: born not belonging

melle — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:14:20 -0000

To me it feels more like a piece that would wind and meander around the body.

Re: Golden Fish & Chips

melle — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:00:55 -0000

This is Canada, sweetie. :)

Re: louisgray.com: AideRSS Rebrands as PostRank, Launches New Features, API

melle — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:07:14 -0000

My response is quite long, so I've posted it as a blog post instead so as not to hijack the blog, and to make the responses accessible to others who might have the same issues or questions.

http://blog.postrank.com/2008/11/17/troubleshoo...