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mmadfan on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

mmadfan — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:23:50 +0000

Maybe Blog Grader likes it when you go back for another look at your score & figures that in!

habituatedbuddhist on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

habituatedbuddhist — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:53:29 +0000

Ok. up to 52, but this time I checked the blog grader and got a 96! I know its meaningless, but I'm happy anyway!

teamoyeniyi on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

teamoyeniyi — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:18:48 +0000

Yeah, but a badge with 93 looks good (it finally updated) so WTH - I'll live with the shenanigans! The Blog rating report was WAY out - told me I had no pics and no links and my posts were 56 words!

mmadfan on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

mmadfan — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:51:49 +0000

It's weird. I just did it again, and it's now 86 (from 79). The blog has not changed that much in the course of less than two days. And my blog rating was astronomically higher than it had been reported. Again, not that much changed in the last day. Weird.

Website grader also told me I had too many images on a page (I have very small, fast-loading ones, and a few little ones in the sidebars), and yet Blog Grader said it found 0 images in my posts. I regularly use at least a thumbnail in my posts. Odd.

So, yeah, maximsmadness, could be shenanigans, indeed! ;)

maximsmadness on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

maximsmadness — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:36:41 +0000

My website grade was 45, and my blog rating was 91. Disappointed. I call shenanigans on this whole thing. SHENANIGANS!

teamoyeniyi on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

teamoyeniyi — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:02:17 +0000

LOL @Momfog! Me too! Especially when I've improved to 93!!! Only trouble is,the badge doesn't update! LOLOL

momfog on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

momfog — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:58:42 +0000

Oh wow.
Website Grade: 75
Blog Grade: 96 ranked 19,660 out of 800,942

Accurate? Who cares. I believe everything I see on the internet.

mmadfan on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

mmadfan — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 02:46:08 +0000

@tt Yes, I know what Website Grader said. It was pretty good, I thought. But they also give you a score that's supposedly from Blog Grader, and the one WG reported from BG was half what BG said my score was, but BG also had other info ranked that either seemed inaccurate or measured in a way that wasn't relevant. Since Website Grader gave me nicer scores, I'll be happy to go with that one!

I actually did go back and some alt tags to some of the images mentioned by Website Grader. A couple I couldn't since they were my gravatar image and something else that I don't have direct control over. I really should go into my media library and add alt images for all my header images -- I hadn't thought of doing that before, since I upload them as header images & they're immediately "live." So that was a good thing to be reminded about by WG.

habituatedbuddhist on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

habituatedbuddhist — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:07:32 +0000

I'm a lowly 45... sigh...When oh when will the world see my true genius! (laugh)

raincoaster on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

raincoaster — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:30:01 +0000

Missing Alt text warnings don't make sense for me, or that is they DIDN'T until I realized they meant missing LINK TITLE data. I always put alt text in for all my images, but the way the image uploader works now, you have to go in after putting the image in to add link title text. It's the missing link title text that's triggering the warning.

timethief on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

timethief — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:20:59 +0000

@mmadfan
The site linked to your username scores 79 The website mmadfan.wordpress.com ranks 764,926 of the 3,661,491 websites that have been ranked so far. It also states Total images found: 20 [on front page], 8 image(s) don't have ALT text.

sami116 on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

sami116 — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:33:21 +0000

Blog grader gave me a score of 91 and ranked me 50,312 out of 799,591. I don't know how accurate it is but it sure made my day =D

mmadfan on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

mmadfan — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:55:46 +0000

Yeah, Blog Grader wasn't accurate for me, either -- it also told me that I had no pictures in my posts, and I do. It also gave me an SEO of 0. I suppose that's possible, but considering that for relevant search terms, my blog is almost always on the first page of a google search, I'm not going to worry about that. It was also odd that the score that Website Grader told me was my Blog Grader score was significantly different from the score that Blog Grader itself gave me.

teamoyeniyi on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

teamoyeniyi — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:55:42 +0000

Hmmmmm Blog Grader wasn't very accurate - my posts are also @Momfog) 56 words on average - I don't think so!!, I have no pictures (huh??) and no links........... weird!

Now I am DEFINITELY GOING TO BED!!!!!!!

teamoyeniyi on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

teamoyeniyi — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:51:36 +0000

Re Website Grader:

I got 84 and am told my web site is in the top 3.78% of all web sites:
"Your website has an Alexa rank of 1,175,012 which is in the top 3.78 % of all websites. "

I think I'm chuffed? I don't know, it is just more confusing numbers!

Bit worried about missing meta data that I can't control though, like page descriptions, unless I am missing something on page set ups....... hmmmmmmmmmm - best go check........

mmadfan on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

mmadfan — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 05:08:11 +0000

I'll look through those. Thanks for posting that link!

raincoaster on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

raincoaster — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:57:55 +0000

If you click through all the pages, they have specific recommendations. And yes, 79 is significantly above average.

mmadfan on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

mmadfan — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:18:52 +0000

Okay, I just did Website Grader, and I don't really know what the score means, but it was 79. I guess that's okay. *shrugs and is puzzled*

raincoaster on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

raincoaster — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:21:33 +0000

You can see the comparison between my newest blog and my oldest one here:

http://websitegrader.com/site/icecoaster.wordpress.com

momfog on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

momfog — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:54:02 +0000

Wow, that's humbling. I'm a little confused about some of the findings, though. Average post length 54 words? Not this long-winded gal. :-)

raincoaster on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

raincoaster — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:03:59 +0000

If you want to analyze your site, use Website Grader:

http://websitegrader.com/

raincoaster on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

raincoaster — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 02:37:35 +0000

Klout is not about blogs. Klout is about Twitter. I don't use Technorati to measure my Twitter reach either.

habituatedbuddhist on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

habituatedbuddhist — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:37:44 +0000

Brad Warner's Blog is at http://hardcorezen.blogspot.com/ - great blog, his books are even better (well, first two any way, haven't read 2nd two yet)

pattydixon on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

pattydixon — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:59:46 +0000

@Raincoaster - I understand what you are saying, don't disagree, but I keep thinking of the Matrix movies. Just plug my brain into the virtual world and goodbye real world. It's my own issues.

@Habituatedbuddhist - Googling Brad Warner right now. Don't know him but sounds like my kind of blogger. And maybe you don't do yourself justice...

habituatedbuddhist on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

habituatedbuddhist — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:37:01 +0000

Ok, checked out out Klout a few times and they claim I have as much clout as Brad Warner, buddhist writter and blogger of Hardcore Zen. Ok, you may not know him, but within the contemporary young Buddhist world - SUPER important. His blog has more readers in a day than I have in a month...

In sum I call poppycock on Klout (thats right, I said poppycock!) And with that I say:

let us go shopping

raincoaster on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

raincoaster — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:22:44 +0000

What makes you think your "healthy real life boundaries" are healthy or more real that decisions to engage in the social media sphere? I've moved thousands of miles to take a job at twice the money I've ever made before and moved into a new apartment, all of which came to me via social media.

Are friends you write letters to less real than people you don't like, who you run into every day?

It's a false dichotomy. There is nothing unreal about engaging online. If you write in a quill pen, the only thing that's "realer" about that than a blog is that only one person at a time can read it.

pattydixon on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

pattydixon — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:08:44 +0000

I'm scared and confused. Check it out, stay away.

Do I dive head first into the virtual abyss or keep some healthy real life boundaries.

sami116 on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

sami116 — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:33:30 +0000

Empire Avenue is addictive. Stay away from it.

raincoaster on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

raincoaster — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:23:14 +0000

You're welcome. I'm also LOVING Google+. It's like Facebook but vastly improved. Still a few glitches, but it's pretty sweet.

timethief on "Do you look at your Klout score? If so, how much clout do you put into it."

timethief — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 02:12:19 +0000

Now that Twitter has acquired BackType it will be interesting to see what happens with star-ups like Klout. Twitter Acquistions include BackType