Hi Emmanuel,
Sorry for only responding now! This slipped through the cracks! :( Yes, we're on Twitter. Even better would be adding our individual accounts:
@stii
@justinhartman
@adelezev
Okay, now, I'm not sure if you've read this indepth explanation about how the ranking works. Maybe it is too technical? Anyway, have a read and tell me.
http://stii.co.za/afrigator/whats-in-a-afrigator-ranking/
As I said, it changes frequently when the ranking scripts run. It resets every Sunday night so there may very well be big variations early in the week. That is quite normal.
As far as determining what blogs are Ghanaian, we leave that to the users. When a blogger submits his blog, he selects the country. Maybe we're not 100% clear on what determines what a blog's country classification is and that may well cause confusion. We find that more often than not, you'll find two kinds of bloggers.
1. Bloggers that resides in that said country. The blog itself might not be about the country, but the blogger should be!
2. Expats that blog about the country. This normally means that the blog qualifies on the basis that the blog is about the said country.
If you find that there is blogs that does not qualify, feel free to let us know! We'll definitely look into it. You can mail us at support[at]afrigator.com
Another issue is that we did have a problem recently with our ranking algorithm. This has been resolved. See:
2009/09/http://blog.afrigator.com/21/blog-ranking-changes/
I have to say, this is not the first time the issue of blogs that hadn't been updated in a while came up. I'll definitely look into this issue as it certainly is very, very valid. In fact, I'll look into this today still!
Guys, we're open for suggestions. We'll have a good and hard look at some of your suggestions mentioned here.
Keep well,
Stii
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
"Afrigator" Responds to My Post on Its Ranking
Following my piece questioning afrigator, Stii has taken the trouble to respond. I post his reply for your general consumption. Enjoy!
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5 comments:
Nice! Thanks for taking this up Emmanuel. Until we start having proper blog awards in Ghana, Afrigator is all we have. And so it's nice to see they're willing to work to make it somewhat accurate.
Esi, I've thought about rustling something together but I'm worried about how much time it will take to code things from scratch.
Thumbs up Emmanuel for that giant step. I was surprised when blogs that sprung a couple of weeks on Afrigator leaped to the first 10 places. Sigh***.. I had discussions with a Pro-blogger friend [Kenyan programmer] who's also good with coding and want to come up with something like that.
@Faf: Maybe, you guys can work hand-in-hand and come up with something more legit and valid. Some application that will come to stay for us all.
Or what you guys can do if you want is to tell us what you want from the system and we can adapt Afrigator to fit in with your needs. One thing we've learned is that we don't always understand what other countries want or need, so help is always welcome. If you'd like to discuss it with me you can send me an email to stii[at]afrigator.com
Thanks Emmanuel for re-publishing my response. Much appreciated!
@stii: that sounds like a much better idea.
I have a couple ideas that might help with the ranking regarding content and abandoned blogs.
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