You and Your Indirank
Indirank -- What does it mean to us, Indibloggers?
How do you look at them? Your standing amongst fellow Indibloggers, a matter of pride, your blog's worth may be or is it just a number for you?
An increase in Indirank is always welcome but what about a drop? Does a decrease in the rank bog you down or do you take it in your stride and motivate yourself to do better next time?
Do you have a tendency to judge other people's blog through their ranks say when promoting posts on indivine, when checking out somebody's profile or do you not notice it even?
I am curious and would really love to know what role does Indirank play in an Indibloggers life??
Please share your thoughts here 
Achyuth Sankar, For Google Rank your blog has to be live for atleast 6 months and should not contain any objectionable content as viewed by Google. Then you will get your rank automatically. It is on a scale of 1 to 10. Higher the rank better the recognition. The rank will improve on the basis of number of links that other good sites carry for your blog. If you try to get links by quick promotional methods google does not appreciate the same and may even penalise by reducing the rank. Anything from 2 upwards is a recognition.
Thanks for the info sir :)
I'll try and get reputed sites to share links to my site (and I won't try mass market stuff) :D
When I joined, my Indirank was 62. Then I stopped blogging for a while and It went down to 31. I was sooo happy. Getting closer to #1 without writing anything; now that's sheer genius.
It was later, a little before the recent Indiblogger Meet @Kolkata that I realized that the goal was to reach 100! 100.... Woah! Forget it. I am only going to write whatever freaking comes to my mind.
Last night I was writing my review on Saat Khoon Maaf and suddenly saw my indiRank at 70. I was like :O. I had even not received any mail so had no idea. I was a bit down and this boost in ranking immediately cheered me up. So yes ranking does matter. If it is good, I love it, if it is bad, I would raise my eyebrows, look down upon the techniques of judging blog quality and carry on with my blog. Works for me.
I am an essentially competitive person by nature but my blog is the last thing I want to be affected by it. When I write, I write for myself essentially, to express thoughts which have no other way of coming out. So yes even though higher ranking still brings forth a school like enthusiasm (it's like being 1st in class), I would much rather want my baby to stay out of it.
Do I judge other blogs on Indivine through their Indiranking? I still am not sure how to see the indirank. :P
As a matter of fact I first realized that yesterday when I saw my blog's ranking on Indivine and couldn't believe myself. If I like the title or short description of a post, I read it. I don't think indirank matters that much when it comes to quality posts. :)
maiden rank of 78, superb.
my indirank has been stable at 74 for the past 4 months, and two months before that it was 73. it hasn't changed much...
true! it feels a little irritating, rather demotivating when the rank doesn't change. but my blogging pattern has also been steady - i mean the number of posts i write and the number of visits i get, so i don't think there is any way the rank will increase.
So many people sailing in the same boat , my rank to stuck around 74-75
i guess it is like everything else, every body says winning and losing don't matter it is participation that is important, but then everybody cares about their rank. I am new here so it is na still, but i guess i am waiting to find out what it will be. But eventually, i think that the human mind is very resillinet to self preservation, we can mould facts to suit our puposes. If we win we cite that as proof that we were good, if we lose we blame it on the ingnorance/ bias of the jury :) that's how most of us are. arent we?
Dude! I can't even begine to explain what Indirank means to me! Its like the trophy of life for me, the only oscar or filmfare or the rarest of scotch or the richest chocolate or the yummiest rajma chawal or the best kiss from an enourmusly hot girl!
I kicked myself in the nuts for missing the last two release of Indirank. Its a festive season for me! And I've been missing them what a shame!
Anyway, got a steep drop this time.
Addy! mere aankhonse aasuonki dharae bahne lagi, thamne ka nam hi nahi, tum ek Indi film kyon nahi banate.......indilove.........will be name........! i m not joking, i m really emotional...
It remains a number, some of the important factors gone missing in ranking.
Is it really a competion and ranking is based on all indiblogger users? dont think so.
I have recently converted my football blog simba.in to a new domain name http://www.footballinsight.co.uk , Change resulted in increase in traffic and viisbility. But indirank resulted in drop :(
- Kumarsaran
I love it! It is nice always....if it is above 70. I never obeserved how this will affect on traffic. Still I wish to get higher and higher always.
and 100 th post on this thread is by me, congos to me and 101th too! and congos to you too. and others' blog, sometimes , but mostly by content, if content is good and indirank is low, i feel they are not regularly posting. nothing more.
In my personal opinion, no one should ever take Indirank to measure your blog. If you give more priority to Indirank than your blog, it can destroy your uniqueness.
+1 shout !
Higher traffic will get you a higher indirank but a higher indirank will not get you higher traffic . I hope people realize that and stop speculating about the rankings and concentrate on providing value via their blog . A higher or lower indirank means nothing commercially and neither technically since it is based on a bunch of other global third party metrics .
There are also a lot of flaws in the indirank algo , it omits the quality of a site , the post frequency can be deceptive and PR and alexa is no sign for a sites quality .
If the ranking has to be based on something solid then it either has to be relevancy to niche or hardcore traffic stats from 3 rd party API . What it is now is a simple formula to add up various numbers which have their own influence factors and the indirank is generated from that .
agree! all this is very important.
I'm four days old on IndiBlogger. Whenever I do get an Indirank, all it means is that my blog will be "seen" more easily by the most appropriate members of the community who may be likely to take an interest. By all accounts, the number itself is a poor measure of the quality and usefulness of a blog.
Although i haven't yet received my debut indirank, but i think it will be a good motivation.
A decrease in indirank would probably make me sit straight, put some high quality blogposts, get more visitors in(even if that requires spamming!). 
An increase in indirank would mean i'm on the right track! 
A same indirank would make me frustrated like hell! 
As of now, these postponed-indirank-updates-for-who-knows-what-upgrades are freaking me out! AAaaaarrrrggh! 
indirank according to me just a number , it just tells how good are you with Alexa and google . but never tell how good your posts are ? .
yeah true. But I think that number matters a bit when it comes to visibility on Indivine.... I mean.. people often selectively view the indivine posts of high ranked bloggers isn't it? So it is important for indivine. But otherwise, yes it is just a number.
@ Xeno thats only assumption , only thingthat changes is no of votes reflecting , though not much change in people visiting . Apart from contest time , just same set of people keep visiting you with some occasional changes .
@ Xeno Yep, i agree with @Dhiraj.
Indirank is never an issue for people who love to visit your site, People who love your site and posts will visit it no matter whether you are a 'NA' or have a number to boast of. Votes.. Yes changes acc to your rank but only slightly not a big deviation to care for.
+1 Arti
really! Oooo! and I was thinking something else.
Thanks guys! That makes me feel better!
@ Xeno , i smell sarcasm
@dhiraj: visit an otolaryngologist and get your nose checked. There was no sarcasm involved.
@ Xeno , then i really appreciate those words .
A higher Indi rank doesn't always mean that the content in the blog is worth for a read and the vice versa a lower ranked blogs might be having amazing content, but the blogger may not be promoting it well or an infrequent blogger.
But yes, having a good rank means lot..:) Thats an inspiration too! I have my one blog (http://princess-liya.blogspot.com) recetly added with NA. Waiting for its ranking. Other one, I havn't been blogging for long so dropped into 50 in last few months..:( I have to get it up like earlier.
hope you make a turn around .
Only indi team is a pro with indirank . Yes Arti is pro with blogging and indiblogger .
@DS @Dhiraj No one in Indiblogger is pro/old enough to know better
+1 @Dhiraj for first statement only!
Agreed to extent .
man this rank thing has ppl goin ga ga over it for what feels lyk eternity
i have never cared much for the indirank...i actually dont understand it...like when i first joined, i had a ranking of 85 or something..just like that..after that its been dropping, coming up, ...like my sex drive..so i have no idea how this thing works...theres something there called alexa and i thought it was a girl...
personally i have never looked at the ranks to read a post...i do check out the title and if it piques my interest i will read it...sometimes it can be the profile pic...if its a pretty girl, i will read and if the post was as gud as the pic, then i may leave a comment...
@tys dude i read ur posts..gr8 writting.ans yes ppl are excited coz for some of us its our 1st tym..thats about it :)
@ Arti , Hope inditeam understands it . Coz delay seem to misguide all of us .
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