Yakezie.com - Topic: Building Klout & other metrics

justheather on Building Klout & other metrics

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:43:36 +0000

Don't forget to make yourself retweetable - I know Twitter's new RT system allows for fully retweets, but I'm a classic girl myself. Keep it short, so we can add our own thoughts to the tweet or at least leave enough characters for RT @YourUsername: to fit in font of it!

mbhunter on Building Klout & other metrics

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:08:46 +0000

My FB count can jump 1,000 from one day to the next. Don't know if posting every single day makes this happen less.

pfincome on Building Klout & other metrics

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 03:25:34 +0000

I personally believe that Twitter and Facebook hold much more value these days than RSS. I probably would not have admitted to that a year ago, but it seems like that is the way things are heading.

That being said, I am trying to really improve my Twitter following.

everydaytips on Building Klout & other metrics

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 15:03:36 +0000

KNS Financial said:

justheather said:

Now that the Wisebread table is using a variety of metrics for their list, it makes sense for us to work together to increase our rankings there as well. Klout seems to be the next big thing, and it's based on Twitter/Facebook followers, mentions & comments. I already try to do a fair amount of RTing, but I've moved the Yakezie column to be a little more prominent on my Tweetdeck so I can get better at it.

I'm also adding Yakezie Facebook friends and try to stay active there - if you go to Klout/yourusername, you have the option to link your Facebook profile, which can raise your score.

Any other ideas for building our presence?

Thanks for the tip about Klout. I see they have very outdated information about me. They have me with 460 Twitter followers and I actually have 601! I connected my Facebook and Linked In, so it should go up in about a week.

The only other thing that I can see is for us to subscribe to each other's RSS Feed (I already do). I have no idea what a Compete score is, so I don't really know what we could do about that one.

Khaleef - Money Reasons told me about http://www.compete.com. If you visit that site, you will see the metrics for your site as they see them. They are way off for me, but that is where your compete score comes from. They also don't update it very frequently either.

Freddie @ Invest With Passion on Building Klout & other metrics

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:40:24 +0000

Thanks for the heads up on Klout, I just just connected and in the game.

Don't really mess with or push feedburner although it is on my site. I find that rss and stuff like that is big in the blogging community, but regular people have no clue what that is all about. Most of my visitors are business people that are barely on the web it seems so they have no clue about rss.

With that said, feedburner is just wonkey as someone said. It mad fluctuates, just part of the system i guess.

Glen Craig on Building Klout & other metrics

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:56:57 +0000

Feedburner get swonky at points. If they are updating things you can see your count jump drastically every day.

Compete scores are similar in a sense to Alexa but not so driven on a toolbar (more legit). You can sign up with compete and add some code to make it easier to track you (I think, it's been a while).

Khaleef @ KNS Financial on Building Klout & other metrics

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:50:07 +0000

I think I have every Yakezie member (at least the ones who have introduced themselves in these forums) in my RSS feed reader. I have almost 800 Yakezie articles alone to read!

@ Suba, my subscriber count fluctuates like crazy as well. It goes from around 115 down to 75 depending on the day.

Suba @ Wealth Informatics on Building Klout & other metrics

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:39:04 +0000

sandy@yesiamcheap said:

Suba @ Wealth Informatics said:

I don't know how the feedburner thing really works. One day I am up 100-150, the next day I in 20s, do 100 people unsubscribe on the same day? From what I read it looks like they measure how many feeds are requested on a certain day than actual subscribers...

I would love to increase subscriber count too (I have already subscribed to your feed, Sandy. Heather & KNS are also in my reader).

I think that there are two number. One is the number of subscribers that you have (which shouldn't change too much from day to day) and the other is reach. The reach is the number of people that viewed or requested your feed that day, or so I think.

Yeah the reach is different, but I am talking about jsut the subscriber count. That itself changes for me drastically, may be its just me...

Buy Like Buffett on Building Klout & other metrics

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:59:44 +0000

I have seen this happen as well. Some days the subsciber count may go up or down by 100 or more.

Sandy @ yesiamcheap on Building Klout & other metrics

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:41:17 +0000

Suba @ Wealth Informatics said:

I don't know how the feedburner thing really works. One day I am up 100-150, the next day I in 20s, do 100 people unsubscribe on the same day? From what I read it looks like they measure how many feeds are requested on a certain day than actual subscribers...

I would love to increase subscriber count too (I have already subscribed to your feed, Sandy. Heather & KNS are also in my reader).

I think that there are two number. One is the number of subscribers that you have (which shouldn't change too much from day to day) and the other is reach. The reach is the number of people that viewed or requested your feed that day, or so I think.

Suba @ Wealth Informatics on Building Klout & other metrics

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:06:13 +0000

I don't know how the feedburner thing really works. One day I am up 100-150, the next day I in 20s, do 100 people unsubscribe on the same day? From what I read it looks like they measure how many feeds are requested on a certain day than actual subscribers...

I would love to increase subscriber count too (I have already subscribed to your feed, Sandy. Heather & KNS are also in my reader).

Sandy @ yesiamcheap on Building Klout & other metrics

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:46:55 +0000

The RSS thing is powerful too, I think. I just changed to Feedburner (all from changing blog platforms onto Wordpress) and then made my information public. Of couse since I changed platforms and the RSS address was different I started with 0 subscribers. My ranking on both Wisebread and Money Crashers tanked. Wisebread fell from the new rescored 268 to 311 (ouches) and Money Crashers from 300 to 330. So yes, having feed subscribers helps. I'm up to about 57 since I activated Feedburner on Wednesday, so if anyone wants to throw some Feedburner loving in my direction...

Khaleef @ KNS Financial on Building Klout & other metrics

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:31:32 +0000

justheather said:

Now that the Wisebread table is using a variety of metrics for their list, it makes sense for us to work together to increase our rankings there as well. Klout seems to be the next big thing, and it's based on Twitter/Facebook followers, mentions & comments. I already try to do a fair amount of RTing, but I've moved the Yakezie column to be a little more prominent on my Tweetdeck so I can get better at it.

I'm also adding Yakezie Facebook friends and try to stay active there - if you go to Klout/yourusername, you have the option to link your Facebook profile, which can raise your score.

Any other ideas for building our presence?

Thanks for the tip about Klout. I see they have very outdated information about me. They have me with 460 Twitter followers and I actually have 601! I connected my Facebook and Linked In, so it should go up in about a week.

The only other thing that I can see is for us to subscribe to each other's RSS Feed (I already do). I have no idea what a Compete score is, so I don't really know what we could do about that one.

justheather on Building Klout & other metrics

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:38:54 +0000

Now that the Wisebread table is using a variety of metrics for their list, it makes sense for us to work together to increase our rankings there as well. Klout seems to be the next big thing, and it's based on Twitter/Facebook followers, mentions & comments. I already try to do a fair amount of RTing, but I've moved the Yakezie column to be a little more prominent on my Tweetdeck so I can get better at it.

I'm also adding Yakezie Facebook friends and try to stay active there - if you go to Klout/yourusername, you have the option to link your Facebook profile, which can raise your score.

Any other ideas for building our presence?