MyScoop has lately been making big headways in the local blog aggregation scene, and today I am proud to announce yet another first for South African blog aggregators. Just a few days ago MyScoop was the first to offer real-time aggregation to bloggers and now its the first to keep track of user engagement on blogs.
User engagement is a term used to describe how much users interact with your articles through leaving comments. How does MyScoop calculate these top user engaged blogs? MyScoop runs through each and every registered blog every 168 hours (7 days) and check how many comments the articles has received that was written in the last 7 days. Once the comments has been calculate the number is divided by the amount of articles written and this will give you the user-engaged ratio.
As it currently stands the top 5 user-engaged blogs in South Africa are:
- Pamorama: Marketing, life, social media
- Nick Duncan
- Erica Says
- If these walls could talk v4.0
- Harassed Mom
iGeek is currently sitting at number 11 on the list, you can view the list here.
Would just like to thank Nick again for this great new feature, sometimes its hard to believe that he is the one and only creator and developer of MyScoop.
Thanks again for getting this information out as quickly as you do Gerhard!
A quick correction: myScoop calculates the top blogs on request (as the page is requested) as well as every few hours to keep it updated. What I meant by the reference to the “168 hours” was that myScoop aggregates the statistics which is used to calculate the top user engaged blogs from the current date-time minus 168 hours. Hope this makes sense! This was done at 3am so any ideas and or comments are welcome.
I’m sure there is going to be a debate on whether these stats should be for the last 7 days, or 1 month. I’m open to any suggestions.
Ah thanks for clearing that up Nick, so it works out the top user engaged blogs based on the past 7days since requesting the page.
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Yup, the stats are live
Or should I say real-time ?
Gerhard,
Great post. Can you explain, how best we can improve our listing? How do we encourage visitors to comment?
Thanks
Hi Mike, here are some pointers http://www.igeek.co.za/2010/05/14/getting-readers-to-comment-again-and-again/
Hi Mike
I have taken this straight out of myScoop’s FAQ section which tells you how the Top User-Engaged Blog rankings are calculated:
I do love the fact that someone is no paying attention to user engagement on website or blogs, for ages it’s all been about how many hits you get but it’s really easy to get false hits on a site and bump up your rankings that way.
My only worry be that we post numerous posts such as stock standard press releases, general notes and daily round ups that generally shouldn’t have a comment which will obviously dent our Top Engaged Blog stats.
I’m not sure how Nick could fix that sort of thing but possibly one option is to see if the post allows comments and if it doesn’t don’t include it in the stats? It wouldn’t help us but it may make the stat more accurate?
Ah thats a great idea Gavin, I’m sure Nick will consider something like this.
Hi Gavin. Thanks for the great feedback and your idea is actually a very good one. I will look into this. Thanks again!