ComMetrics footprint
Here we explain how data delivered and shown by the ComMetrics Footprint dashboard can be used to improve your blogging effectiveness
URL of blog
If you click on this link you get provided with additional information regarding that particular blog when it comes to: Google PageRank, Technorati Ranking, Technorati Authority, Yahoo! InLinks and Google Blog Search (see image below).
Claimed Blogs – Traced Blogs
Those are the blogs that were claimed as being ‘owned’ (e.g., administered, copyright holder, etc.) while those under the category traced are the ones that the user asked the system to track and compare against.
CHART 3-month trend
The chart shows the three month trend (i.e. 90-days backward from the last data were updated by the system updated data shown on dashboard). For Brian Solis’ blog below this means that its ranking has dropped from 16 to 14.
Please remember, ComMetrics Footprint is calculated for a blog by comparing it to other blogs within the same category each. So if two categories like Brian Solis’ blog and The Meliorist are not in the same category, numbers for the ComMetrics Footprint cannot be compared - also 100 is the top score.
% change (current vs. last 30 days)
The red arrow shows that the trend is moving downward for this period.
The green arrow indicates that things are looking up and the trend is moving in the right direction.
This statistic shows a comparison of the past two thirty-day periods. The average of the latest is compared with that of the previous to obtain a percentage. If the average of the latest thirty days is 108% of the previous thirty days, the metric is up 8%. If it is 92%, it is down 8%.
% attained (til now this quarter vs. total of last quarter)
Provides one with the cumulative percentage for this period. Hence, if the number reaches more than 100 percent compared to last quarter, performance has improved over the current quarter compared to last quarter.
You can find more details about the the Methodology regarding — Composite indicators ( How raw data are normalized, How rankings are calculated, What about missing values?, Trend time series, Weighting) AND — ComMetrics rankings (Method behind the numbers) using the links provided
