New improved Top Blog rankings on their way

  As you will have seen on the Autumn Cleaning blog post, we are currently overhauling our Top Blogs algorithm in order to improve the rankings. We are taking on board a number of your suggestions and the advice of our resident expert Jean Véronis.

The work being done is more widely explained in that last post, though one of the new features not mentioned is that we will from now on be counting backlinks from the preceding calendar month in its entirety. Before, we had to base our calculations on the backlinks recorded up a given point during the final month (and so not up to the very last day of that month), because we released the rankings on the 1st of each month sharp. Our calculations were thus not aligned with the calendar month, but were aligned instead with a watershed that fell during the month.

We have for various reasons decided to change that, meaning our rankings now neatly encompass the whole calendar months that precede them. The finalised tables will thus be released a few days after the end of each month, as this allows our algorithm to fully analyse the results and also our content managers to do their thing, as they verify all of the rankings by hand once they are in place.

This month's should be available in the coming days, so do watch the space to see the new and improved rankings go live.

  As you will have seen on the Autumn Cleaning blog post, we are currently overhauling our Top Blogs algorithm in order to improve the rankings. We are taking on board a number of your suggestions and the advice of our resident expert Jean Véronis.

The work being done is more widely explained in that last post, though one of the new features not mentioned is that we will from now on be counting backlinks from the preceding calendar month in its entirety. Before, we had to base our calculations on the backlinks recorded up a given point during the final month (and so not up to the very last day of that month), because we released the rankings on the 1st of each month sharp. Our calculations were thus not aligned with the calendar month, but were aligned instead with a watershed that fell during the month.

We have for various reasons decided to change that, meaning our rankings now neatly encompass the whole calendar months that precede them. The finalised tables will thus be released a few days after the end of each month, as this allows our algorithm to fully analyse the results and also our content managers to do their thing, as they verify all of the rankings by hand once they are in place.

This month's should be available in the coming days, so do watch the space to see the new and improved rankings go live.

Comments

[Bettye Jones]

Lou, you claim you are not bias against Obama. When you guys are speaking of the Canidates, McCain's name is always before Obama. When the comment is negative, whom do you call first? Obama.

[Dan]

Hi Bettye, I'm not sure where you've read any comment from us, but I can assure you we have not published any political opinion anywhere, so we have absolutely not put forward any such bias.

What you read on our site is the content created by our users, mainstream and alternative media outlets and blogs.

We are of course not responsible for their content.