Entries Tagged ‘blog rank’

It is a fact that majority of the bloggers spent most of their valuable time on activities unrelated to publishing! Online publishing activities ideally should be restricted to content editing, proof reading, publishing, moderating and conversing with the readers. But the reality is that platform upgrades, ranks tracking, publicizing, commenting elsewhere etc consume a lot more time than the time utilized by actual writing and most bloggers go frenzy when things start getting on to their heads.

The topic for today is Blog Ranks and ranking systems! We have several of them around including the likes of Alexa, Technorati, Compete and various blog aggregator/directory ranking systems. But do they actually measure the merit of a blog based on quality of content or acceptance from its the readers? The answer is ‘NO’.
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I stumbled upon this single service website called ShowOffRankings.com. This site offers a simple widget that displays your blog ranks - ie. The Google PR, Alexa, Compete and Technorati ranks - all of them neatly arranged either vertically, horizondally or as a square while consuming very little of the screen real estate.

This is one of the easiest widgets to use. All that you need to do is to visit their website, enter your blog URL there, select your blog PR, select the ranks that you want to display, select the style and click generate. Now you can paste the generated code snippets into your header area (the style sheet) as well wherever (e.g. Sidebar) you want to display the actual widget.
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After launching your blog, you may not be still in a position to attract traffic, improve your blog’s visibility and be part of an echo system of similar blogs and blogger communities. In this post, I would like to talk about a number of things that I personally did to improve the visibility of my own blog.

Phase 10. Post launch exercises
I would categorize the essential regular activities after launch into three:

• Improving social media presence
• Link building and improving ranks
• Regular update & monitoring

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