You and Your Indirank

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.

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. :)

I just got my first Indirank.. 78.. Is that good? Not sure. But it did make me feel good after seeing the criteria they choose to rank like alexa rank, google page rank, regularity of posting etc. It is helpful feedback for bloggers. When when looking at other blogs, I look for my topics of interest and quality of the posts rather than the Indirank to choose them as my favorites but the ranking sure does help to a certain extent. Like a book cover or a movie promo :)

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...

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.

And hey best wishes for your first indirank next month:-)

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

Indirank is very fascinating, waiting for my second one... But I do not judge a persons blog by the rank, though it does give an idea of how the blog might be!!

My rank had reached 79 and then rank started dropping till it dropped to 48. And then I dropped the rank from my blog.

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.

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. 

@ Arti - My rank dropped because I did not post for 5 months. Now my rank should be up there with me getting back with 21 posts in the last 1.5 months. But these guys are not putting it up yet.

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!

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.

Just how long till I get my second rank, any idea, you are such an old pro Arti:)

So arti any conclusion on the importance of indirank . I think this is probably the third most important aspect of indiblogger after pool of Indian bloggers present here and Indivine .

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...