Twitter is one of the most used social networking sites around. Measuring your Twitter influence has now been one of the things to look out for especially now that we know that Google is taking Twitter’s social signals into account.
There is actually a website that now enables you to roughly measure your Twitter influence. The metric name is TunkRank – something like Google PageRank but it’s used for Twitter. Interesting.
If you’re the type who likes to get your hands dirty on analytics, you should check this out.
TunkRank has two basic ideas behind their influence metric (taken from Trunkrank.com/about)
1. The amount of attention you can give is spread out among all those you follow. The more you follow, the less attention you can give each one.
2. Your influence depends on the amount of attention your followers can give you.
Your TunkRank score is a reflection of how much attention your followers can both directly give you and how much attention they bring you from their network of followers.
It Ain’t Simple Math
Measuring your Twitter influence is tricky. TunkRank seems to have pulled it off albeit roughly.They’re still in the tweaking stage – especially since Twitter has kept updating their API lately.
TunkRank has a pretty simple way of telling you solidly how influential you are. They have a 1-100 metric, in which case, 100 is the highest (most influential) and 1 is the lowest (least influential). The rate of influence doubles with every 7 points such as how Google’s PageRank score exponentially increases for every 1 point increase.
What’s the algorithm behind TunkRank? Well it’s based on Daniel Tunkelang’s proposed Twitter influence algorithm (taken from The War on Attention Poverty: Measuring Twitter Authority)
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
How to Measure your Twitter Influence | SEO in Simple Terms
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Internal Linking SEO | SEO in Simple Terms
Internal linking is all about getting your webpages interconnected with each other. The world wide web is made up of links – you navigate from webpage to webpage through links. You recommend another webpage through links. But internal linking is more than just about navigation and recommendation.
More than just directions
Internal linking (or interlinking as I’d like to call it for short) is one method that SEO specialists use to distribute good, relevant Pagerank to each webpage that are related to each other’s content. Interlinking your webpages inside your website does not only help people find relevant content in the webpage they are reading, it also helps search engine spiders have an easier time crawling your website and seeing the relevance with each page.
Take this for example: You go to a comic store which has lots of other branches. You’re looking for the Ultimate Spiderman series – but they told you that they only have volume 1 in this store and the other volumes are in the other stores which you have to find out for yourself. Ain’t that a bummer? Why do you have to go to all the other stores just to find the other volumes when they own all of those volumes anyway? And why can’t they direct you to the other stores instead of you having to look for it yourself?
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Hillsong Publishing Music Conference Manila | God and you
Hillsong Publising is holding a conference here in Manila on July 16, 2011 from 8:30AM to 5:30PM at the 5th floor of CCF Auditorium St. Francis Square, Building Julia Vargas Avenue, corner Bank Drive, Ortigas Center.
Ticket Price is at P1,000 but if you book now, you can get it at P800 as an early bird rate.
Topics that will be tackled in Hillsong Publishing Conference will be:
Leading Worship
Worship is about the response of a believer’s heart and not about the culture of our time. In this workshop, we will discuss how to use the tools of today while keeping the purpose of worship the central focus.
Copyright Laws
Since 2004, the overall music industry has decreased by 31% worldwide. The development and creation of worship music has also been affected within the church. In this session, we will tackle this question: What should a Christian do about it and how should the church respond?
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
How to know if you are Proud | God and you
Everyone has his or her own set of ideals that he or she lives by. Each one of us has our own reservations that we opt not to have others stepped on. We all understand the need to respect boundaries of others (or so we believe as taught by our parents/guardians). But what we fail to understand is that many times we’re living on these ideals and ‘standards’ too much that we tag or judge others immediately just because he/she reacts, talks, walks, dresses differently (weirdly) compared to us.
No? Oh come on! Remember your first days in college when you were hanging out with high school friends telling each other about your block mates? How did you call the one with the afro hairstyle? Or the seatmate who wore neon colored shorts during PE?
This article is a self-check; an examination of self with the help of a short passage in the Bible when Jesus was telling His followers to beware of certain attitudes in Matthew 23:1-7.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Optimizing URL Slugs | SEO in Simple Terms
URL slugs are the exact address of a specific website. It is the location where webpages are accessed when typing their URL in the address bar. Optimizing URL slugs is not a very hard thing to do. But if you ask me, it is one of the most important things you can do in your on site optimization process. Here’s Why:
URL Slugs Appear in the Search engine Results Page
If you didn’t know, the URL slugs that you use in your webpage will appear in the SERPs. This is visible to all people who are searching in the web. For this example, I have searched for the keyphrase ‘Title Tag Optimization’. The URL slug in the picture says /title-tag-optimization-guide/ which is good. People who see this result would say ‘Bingo’.
But what if my URL slug says /how-to-properly-give-your-dog-a-name/ then it starts to confuse searchers. It just doesn’t add up.
Some people just don’t get it. Sometimes they write out their URL slugs to be http://www.example.com/10395embislgm-potllz1.php
It’s just gibberish – both for people and consequently for search engines too – because search engines are just mimicking as to how people respond to search query results.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Being Careful about the Bible | God and you
In an email conversation I sent some of my friends at church the devotions I read in the morning. One of them replied, “Hindi ka ba nahihilo sa dami ng devos na binabasa mo?”
Author’s note: This was inspired by a conversation over at Starbucks.
She has a point. But I think more than that, I realized just how dangerous this habit can be. More often than not we tend to replace the bible with devotions. We can argue that these devotions were also derived from scripture, but that’s the problem – they’re derivatives of the scripture, but we tend to take them as if they are.
Recently I’ve had this conversation with a couple of friends regarding emerging/post modern churches. One of my friends mentioned that there was this one pastor that wrote a book with a claim that hell is empty because Christ has already paid for everyone’s sins and hence everyone goes to heaven. It apparently caused a stir in the states. This friend goes on by saying that John McArthur points out several pastors (some of them I subscribe to) with whom he has a problem regarding what they preach.
Friday, June 3, 2011
Philippine Divorce Bill | God and you
The Divorce Bill being worked on by the Philippine congress has created a lot of buzz and attention from the public. And I think that it has achieved its purpose in setting aside and delaying the more important matters at hand from being tackled by the Philippine congress such as corruption and other legal matters.
“But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.” - Matthew 5:32
“Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.” - Mark 10:9
“I hate divorce,” says the LORD God of Israel, “and I hate a man’s covering himself with violence as well as with his garment,” says the LORD Almighty. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith.” - Malachi 2:16
“But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.” - Matthew 5:32
“Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.” - Matthew 19:8
