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Sort "My Feeds" By Popularity?
I'm a new PostRank user and I've just imported several dozen feeds. They display in "My Feeds" in alphabetical order. I'd like to display the feeds ranked by popularity. That is, I'd like to see the feeds that have the posts with the highest PostRank displayed at the top of the list of "My Feeds". I don't want to go through several dozen feeds looking for top posts. I want to know which of my several dozen feeds are the ones that everyone is reading. Can I do it?
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Inappropriate?Hi Daniel,
Sorting by PostRank is captured on our backlog as an enhancement to the Feeds Page.
In the mean time you can use the Top Posts widget for precisely the use case you describe. You can see your top posts int he widget on the left on the Feed Details page for any feed, also you can get your own Top Posts Widget installed on your blog here:
http://www.postrank.com/publishers
Just paste in your url and take it from there.
Hope that helps,
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Inappropriate?You said:
> Sorting by PostRank is captured on our backlog as an enhancement to the Feeds Page.
Thank you. That will be a very useful feature.
> you can use the Top Posts widget for precisely the use case you describe
Can I install it on a WordPress.com hosted blog?
And please clarify: It appears the Top Posts widget only shows top posts for my own blog. I don't see how it shows a ranking of "top feeds."
I’m confused
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Inappropriate?Hi Daniel,
No, I'm afraid our widget only works on external WordPress installations.
Re. the widget, that's correct. You can plug in one feed -- either your blog or another favourite blog. It doesn't show multiple blogs at once.
So we're clear, you're looking for something that showcases the top-ranked posts from the full list of feeds you follow? -
Inappropriate?You said:
> you're looking for something that showcases the top-ranked posts from the full list of feeds you follow?
Not quite. I want to see a list of all the feeds I follow. I don't want to see them in alphabetical order. At the top of the list, I want to see the feeds that get the most attention. I want to know which *feeds* are most popular, that is, which bloggers are most popular or have the most authority. Similar to subscriber statistics from FeedBurner, like the list here:
http://www.toprankblog.com/2008/12/2008-top-seo-blogs-by-rss-subscribers/
or here:
http://selfmademinds.com/200704/which-blogs-have-the-most-feed-subscribers/
but I'd like to see a list based on PostRank metrics. I know you are focused on finding which *posts* are most popular but I really want to know which *feeds* are most popular. So if a certain blogger has a lot of posts with a high PostRank, I want to know that's the blogger who is most influential because I might want to read all his/her other posts as well.
It's really difficult to compile a list of "top blogs" for any given topic so ranking *feeds* using aggregate PostRank metrics would be awesome. Just like seeing which web sites are most popular using Quantcast or Alexa.
I’m not sure I'm understood
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Inappropriate?Ahh, ok, gotcha, more of a comparative analysis. In good news, we're working on some functionality that should help with that and it should be out before month's end. :)
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Inappropriate?Good to know something is coming.
Is there something in the API that I could use to build my own "comparative analysis" of feeds? Like maybe an "average PostRank" for each feed?
I’m feeling understood
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Inappropriate?You could average together postranks for a feed's posts over time. This is likely an API we will release but we don't have a time frame yet, sorry.
Sorry for misinterpreting your question ont he feed ranking. As Melanie said that's in this area.
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