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Renie Ravin
from Chennai |

Bloggers! Now that we've completed a revamp of IndiVine, it's time for IndiRank to have an upgrade as well. Here are a few ideas I have as of now:

  • We create a dashboard for every blogger (in their account), where they can see detailed info on their IndiRank.
  • This detailed info will include customized tips on how to improve IndiRank - based on the values picked up by our crawler.
  • We'll include the previous IndiRank - with graphs to show how a blog's IndiRank has changed over time, and why.
  • We'll show a countdown timer to the next update.

Any other ideas? Smile

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Shankar
from Chennai |

wow...great...I always wonder on what basis indiranks are awarded. I think the above ideas will be great....  http://ballat.blogspot.com

Neeraj Shinde
from Pune |

The Improvements suggested by Renie are superb. I am unable to think anything more to add. Smile

Aditya Tibrewala
from Mumbai |

can indirank be updated more frequently?

or rather can new users get their rank faster instead of waiting for a month for indirank to get refreshed?

I also posted a suggestion for improvement of indivine in the indivine thread. Have a look

Aditya Tibrewala
from Mumbai |

http://adityasmoviereviews.blogspot.com/

Renie Ravin
from Chennai |

Hey Aditya, we cannot update IndiRank for new users seperately - ranks are generated relative to all the other IndiBloggers. So if half the bloggers have an increase in Alexa/Pagerank while the rest remain the same, both groups will have a change in their IndiRank.

As for updating more frequently - one of the reasons for this upgrade is to streamline the entire process (crawling, calculations, email update to all users) so that we can do exactly that! Smile

Lakshmi Rajan
from Bangalore |

I agree with Madhu ! The constant strive for the better by Indiblogger team is laudable! Good going guyz !

Right now I could not think of any suggestion , will chip in when it strikes Smile

kinnos
from Bhubaneswar |

Great ideas :) And if ideas can change life (As per Mr.Abhishek Bachchan) then definitely it can improve one's Indirank.I'll be waiting for the new features :)

http://www.iluvmyfamily.co.cc/blog

Yayaver
from Hyderabad |

Make ranking system change monthly.

Archana
from Bangalore |

good ideas.. waiting for the current countdown to end!!! :P

Rakesh Vanamali
from Ooty |

Renie - awesome effort! Looks very exhaustive and hence am not able to think of anything more! Many thanks to you and team!

Bharathi
from Tiruppur |

I have a small suggestion regarding the name. Generally most of us think rank means, lower the better. Probably I can suggest you to name it as indiscore.

I like rest of your suggestions and when is it coming up?

Lakshmi Rajan
from Bangalore |

I completely agree wit this . Its a valid point raised over here !

Vidya
from Gangtok |

exactly ,  i though my ranking had come down, it was my friend who explained how it works :)

Varun Yagain
from Bangalore |

Absolutely agree that this needs a change. However, I'd vote for keeping the name and changing the score to 100-score. A rank has a nicer ring to it ;-)

Bharathi
from Tiruppur |

oops. I dont know what happened. I only wrote the folowing. Probaly this could be because that I copied it from word.

I have a small suggestion regarding the name. Generally most of us think rank means, lower the better. probably I can suggest you to name it as indiscore.

I like rest of your suggestions and when is it coming up?

abhishek khanna
from Delhi |

I think you should not divulge the entire algoritm of how it is calculated otherwise spam users will start rigging their parameters to get high rank.

You can just tell the parameters (alexa, PR, technorati rank, backlinks etc) on which it is calculated.. and charts on each of them for previous months. 

What say?

http://www.thefurobiker.com/

Susan Deborah
from Goa |

Great. Waiting for the countdown . . .

An idea: Maybe (thinking aloud) the people who have higher ranks, say above 75 can be given a week each in the forum where they speak out about content, widgets, alignment, ideas, relevance of comments, etc. Presently we do it only when asking for reviews. But by giving them a week each or maybe three days, the toppers can sound off. It can be called 'Indi Top Guns Gyan' or something like that.

Don't know whether its plausible but nevertheless . . .

Keep the great work going Renie and Anwin!Innocent

Joy always,

Susan

Aditya Tibrewala
from Mumbai |

nice idea but we need to see how many people figure in that list. There might be too many, plus many wouldnt be ready for such an interview. Instead we can have a weekly member be interviewed and his/her interview is put up on the site. Something like what blogadda does.

Hemal Shah
from Mumbai |

Hey Renie, great job dude :). This is quite exhaustive development. Do you think we should do it in phases? I suggest that. In that way, you can provide one feature at a time and take a break, so that you can be your own boss (:-P)

Hemal Shah
from Mumbai |

And one more thing. I was just thinking that from above all the features, we should keep something in premium. That may come at a cost and the proceeds can go to IndiChild funds. What say others?

ARJUN MS
from Angadipuram |

Funding for the IndiChild funds is great, but being a student I will not able to contribute and thus I will be restricted someway. This cannot be allowed.

This is my opnion, don't feel bad.

Kshitij
from Faridabad |

For the first time in my life I would second Hemal. Lol :) I agree with that! But isn't it going to be tough? For you Renie?

Btw, are we going off topic? or off the record?

Renie Ravin
from Chennai |

IndiRank crawler is running... if you haven't blogged in a while, now is the time! Smile

Vipul Grover
from Chandigarh |

I shud b ready for a drop in d rank of my prsnl blog :(

Hemal Shah
from Mumbai |

Even i would face a dip in ranks, but thats okay. I will climb up back. As for funding IndiChild, we only have a few select services that might go that way. I think all come up with an idea that will help us achieve both.

Renie Ravin
from Chennai |

You can contribute to the IndiChild funds without pulling out credit cards - just help us win this entrepreneur contest here by voting and commenting! Smile

narendra
from karkala |

I would want to see a list of top rank holders in my dashboard...say category wise...other thank that everything is cool..just waiting waiting waiting......