AdgiScore and Traffic Rating Now Available – New Service
Posted by kexbrown on January 9, 2010
I am happy to announce a new service that we are launching. The AdgiScore and Traffic Rating are now available. Go to AdgiScore.
What is the AdgiScore and the Adgitize Traffic Rating? Well, let’s start with the Adgitize Traffic Rating. The Traffic Rating is our ranking of all active publishers by the amount of traffic (page views) they receive. The goal is to give information on how much traffic a blog receives. If you have a couple of blogs you would like to advertise on you can check out their Adgitize Traffic Rating and have another check on where to spend your hard earned money.
Sure a blog will tell you they receive a lot of traffic, but do they really? The Adgitize Traffic Rating system will give you another point of analysis. The low score wins. So a member blog with a traffic rating of 425 has more traffic than a member blog at 652.
What is an AdgiScore
The next rating is the AdgiScore. The AdgiScore is a measurement of how active a publisher is. The score is derived from the amount of traffic a blog receives, how active they are at clicking Adgitize Member Ads and how often they write new articles to their blog.
The Blog with a good Adgitize Traffic Rating, but they don’t write often and / or they don’t click very many ads in a day will not have as good an AdgiScore as a blogger who writes daily and does 100 clicks a day.
How Do I Get My Score on Adgitize?
Again low score is better than a higher score. You don’t have to be a member to check on AdgiScores and Adgitize Traffic Rating. I can see this developing into a service that any blog advertiser that wants to advertise using Adgitize Competitor services will come here first and do a quick analysis and then make their advertising decisions. For Adgitize to record your AdgiScore and Traffic Rating you have to be a member of Adgitize and be a publisher showing Adgitize Ads.
We are really still in Beta mode but we were interested in getting feedback early on with this service. We have lot’s of plans to grow the page and provide more information as the service grows including daily graphs and the ability to compare blogs. We will have links up on the home page in the next 24 to 48 hours.
Please Give Us FeedBack
We would love to hear what you think! Go to AdgiScore. Just type in an URL or even a partial URL and click the GET BLOG DATA Button. You can type in http://www.adgitize.com or just adgitize and both should return the same data. (There is no data for Adgitize.) But, replace your blog URL with Adgitize and see what happens.
Money said,
Hey I tried this with my website nysilly.com and it says not found….
kexbrown said,
@Money – Yeah you are right. We’ll have to take a look at it. Your info is in the database – hmmmm. As a beta product it may take a day or two to correct some of these issues.
kexbrown said,
@Money – For some reason you had two entries in the database for NYSILLY. We have altered one that appeared to be unused so you can get a result for this new tool. If you need us to delete the unused record just let us know.
Martin@Cornyman's Money-Blog said,
Hi Ken,
good invention.
I wonder
– which part of the score (page views/clicking/posting) gets a higher priority/percentage overall
– how fast does the score change
– is clicking calculate into all active registered Adgitize blogs of a member or is it just calculated into one blog
- on which time frame is the calculation based on?
I see that my Money-Blog gets usually the most traffic but might be not updated so frequently like the Baby-Blog.
My AdgiScore for the Money-Blog has been 200 and for the Baby-Blog 116.
Gene said,
How weird is that. I tried it on both of my blogs and I received low scores on a new blog that started just last month. Does that mean I am receiving more traffic in the new blog even if I don’t usually update it?
kexbrown said,
@Gene – You might want to check your scores again. You had a duplicate blog in the system. We have turned off the duplicate blog.
kexbrown said,
@Cornyman – Good questions. Here is an important answer, the numbers only change once a day usually sometime after 10 AM Chicago time.
The clicks are given the least weight and are given to each blog. The traffic numbers are calculated just on the day they occur. The Clicks and articles are taken over a 31 day period.
We may tweak the AdgiScore algorithm as time goes on and we get more information. You can only do so much analysis in the lab and at some point you have to get real world analysis.
I have to say that your scores for both your blogs presented above are very good!
The goal for the AdgiScore in my mind is giving members an idea of how active a blogger is. Did the blogger just create a blog and hasn’t touched it for years? Or are they actively writing and visiting other blogs?
In my experience, if you are visiting other blogs you are more likely to be commenting and making relationships with other bloggers. Both of these events are huge when it comes to long term success in blogging.
sharkbytes said,
Looks like a good start. When people have multiple blogs you do have to enter more of the URL. I put in “cornynman” and it came up with his Blogreviews… I’m not even sure I knew he has one of those! Mine= My Quality Day did really well! (178 and 21)
Any way to have 2 boxes, so we could compare 2 blogs side by side? How about a way to click through to the blog (so I could see cornyman’s Blogreview blog)
It’s an interesting concept. Needs text on the page where it appears to explain what the numbers mean.
sharkbytes said,
Oh yeah… I have multiple blogs, and I don’t do multiple sign in and outs for clicking and interacting. So my other blogs show poor interaction rates, while in truth, it’s all me… no matter who I’m signed in as. (and how does the AdgiScore decide who I am? Judging for the good score on MQD I would guess that one because it’s the one I have in the system with an ad. But in the Preferred Publisher list when you added post titles it defaulted to Just Throw Money since that was the first one I put in the system.
If it has to choose one of me to give good score to, I’m glad it chose MQD, but for those with multiple blogs this could be an issue.
Chinaren said,
Cool, I like.
Could we have a convenient link on the report page somewhere? (Or somewhere similar) though?
Russ said,
Great idea. I love it. I will keep an eye on the progress. I am also going to do a post about it and add it to my sidebar. If that is no problem.
JT Locke -- The Frugal Housewife said,
First let me say thank you for trying to continually update and add to this service.
Now on to my point… I’m not at all happy with my numbers. I post on my blogs every day. I use this service everyday. I only “click” 51 because that’s what I’m “allowed” as a preferred publisher. I know what my traffic is because I check it everyday on my Google Analytics and on my web host’s stats as well.
To say that according to you, I have a Traffic Rating of 3489 and a AdgiScore of 763 is ridiculous! There are some others that I have checked that score just as high as mine that are active bloggers and have high traffic.
By the stats given at my own web host’s stats for The Frugal Housewife, I range anywhere from 450 to 650 visitors a day and it’s growing every day. The Frugal Housewife is also a Google Page Rank 4 and has a Compete Rank of 180,752, an Alexa Rank of 57,582 and is ranked on Alexa for the US at 24,504.
No..I’m not at all happy.
kexbrown said,
@JT – I will take a look at your scores. There is probably a quirk in the system. Don’t get too excited about these scores quite yet. We will tweak them some more as we get more information.
@Chinaren – we will add it to the Member’s Lounge somewhere convenient for you.
@Russ – Blog away!
@SharkBytes – The clicks a member scores each day is awarded to all of a member’s blogs. The blog traffic is the traffic we record when a blogger puts an Adgitize Ad Group on their blog. The articles we now capture for each blog in a member’s blog family.
We are creating a couple of additional widgets for the page. One is a blog family list where when you check the scores of a single blog, if that member has additional blogs in our system we will show all other blogs in that member’s blog “family.”
Second we are adding a compare capability where you can compare scores of multiple blogs simultaneously.
Third we will be adding a traffic graph, too.
kexbrown said,
@JT – I did a quick look at your blog and it shows some GREAT NUMBERS! I searched on “thefrugalhousewife.com” and I am seeing Traffic Rating of 105 and an AdgiScore of 28. You can’t get much better than that!
If you can share with me what search term you used then that will help us refine our search algorithm so others don’t get mistaken values. Thank you very much for giving us some feedback on this issue.
Martin@Cornyman's Money-Blog said,
Like Chinaren i had problems to find the AdgiScore again in the Member’s Lounge
Perhaps it would be better to put it on top of the Menu beside Contact us, from there it’s available in each sub-menu?
I didn’t know that the system “completes” partial names if they find something similar in the system like Sharkbytes mentioned with one of my blogs
It seems for me now when i read the feedback that daily posting an article has a major impact of the AdgiScore, much more than traffic and clicking combined!
Would a TOP 10 or TOP 100 List -similar to the Leaderboard- be another possibility to show off some of the TOP AdgiScore blogs?
My new blog post about this topic:
Adgitize: AdgiScore + Traffic Rating
ian said,
hi ken. i appreciate this and all innovations you try to bring into the adgitize system to enhance the publishing and advertising experience =]
i’m just curious though:
i checked my elsalvadordelmundo.blogspot.com site and
got an AdgiScore of 121 and Traffic Rating of 778. my safarisogood.blogspot.com site got an AdgiScore of 172 and a Traffic Rating of 448.
i think it is correct that my safarisogood blog gets a higher Traffic Rating since it is the blog where my ad here leads to; hence it is bound to get more traffic. plus there are blogging prompts there that i join 2-3x/week.
which leads to my question on the AdgiScore: i’m wondering how come my safarisogood blog got a higher AdgiScore (172) considering it gets updated fairly regularly vis-a-vis my elsalvadordelmundo blog (121) which i haven’t updated for more than a month?
that’s about it =] thanks again and happy new year =]
kexbrown said,
@Cornyman – Traffic is traffic. But, the AdgiScore is more about a blogger’s activity. For one blog the blogger may write an article a month. For another blog they may write daily.
The second blog in our example should get a better score within our system given all other factors being the same. The articles are weighted with a better score than the clicks.
We a best of scores in our task list, we’ll see how it is eventually implemented.
Mariuca said,
Awesome! Only my perfume blog at http://www.mariucasperfume.com/ doesn’t seem to have a rating. The other two shows up fine…
kexbrown said,
@Ian – we are looking at your numbers.
kexbrown said,
@Mariuca – Type in the word, “Perfume” and see what results you get. Then let us know what you typed in before that didn’t get results.
kexbrown said,
@Mariuca – Your blog doesn’t have “www” in it within our system.
JT Locke -- The Frugal Housewife said,
Not exactly sure what happened between the time I checked it this morning and now…but my numbers greatly improved and they are showing a Traffic Rating of 105 and AdgiScore of 28.
This is what I love about Adgitize they are very prompt in looking at whatever the problem is that you are having.
Thanks Ken and Staff for whatever made the difference.
Man Over Board said,
Cool new little widgets thingys and think that was very nice of you to put it all together. I like Adgit because of the ease and simplicity of it. Not to mention the great traffic it brings. However I reread this post a few times and still not sure if I my numbers are good or not. I think mine were like 24 and 36 or similar to that, and have no idea if that’s good or not. I do my daily drops and write a post almost daily, preferred publisher and think I even have posters of your logo on my front lawn. But I am Polish so it takes me a while longer to figure out the scores.
kexbrown said,
@ManOverBoard – 24 or 36 would be very good. It is like golf – low score wins.
EdZee said,
Hi Ken,
Just want to report that AdgiScore reports my Owning A Cafe blog as “Not Found” when I use it. It is working okey with my I-Cafe Pilipinas site.
Thank you.
EdZee said,
I don’t know if it’s magic but AdgiScore worked on my Owning A Cafe blog right after I submitted my above post. Could it be an intelligent robot who fixed it?
kexbrown said,
@EdZee – Ah, finally proof that Adgitize is actually run by robots.
Obviously, we need to do some more tweaking. I expect we will be releasing some more updates by end of day today.
DogsDeserveFreedom said,
I think this is really neat. I checked my blog out. It gives you something to track and improve. Good invention.
Mom's Cafe Home Cooking said,
I really like this Ken. It gives one more way to analyze how well your blog is performing. I checked all 6 of my blogs and was quite please to see my cooking blog coming in a 85/13. I noticed that I do need to do a bit more posting on my garden (389/382) and home (586/489) blogs but the most surprising thing I found was my Canadian blog was showing nothing. I went back and checked that blog information and what I found I had typed in the actual blog url wrong! I likely would not have found that error unless I had to update the information for some reason. Thanks again for this great tool!
LIFE Moto said,
well i have a low mark for my blogs. but then hope to make good revenue.
Gouri said,
Great tool to help advertisers take an objective decision..
Don E. Chute said,
Hello All, Just to let you know, I just tried Adgiscore, and………said, Not Found, w/ my url. I’m sure you will fixit’ Thanks for a great set of tools.
kexbrown said,
@Don – I checked your blog and you are right. NOT FOUND. Why you might ask? Well, it turns out that when you signed up for Adgitize you left off the “www” for your blog URL. If I type “donechute.blogspot.com” into the AdgiScore box then everything comes up perfect!
Give it a try and if it is still an issue let us know. Did you know that you can type in donechute and get your score? Pretty cool!
mai said,
Help!! my adgiscore is not showing too. It’s NOt Found.Hope you can fix this.. Thanks in advance!!
kexbrown said,
@Mai – You had a duplicate blog in the system. We have removed that blog and now you can see your real AdgiScore and traffic Rating.
mai said,
I can see my adgiscore now! Thanks! I love this new feature of adgitize!