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FEEDJIT's Geoblogosphere FAQ
What is the Geoblogosphere?
The Geoblogosphere lets you see which blogs are popular with readers located in your city and any other city in the world, today. If you've ever been curious about what people in Sydney, Australia, Iran or Alaska are reading today, the Geoblogosphere can tell you.What is the "My-City's Blogosphere" link at the top of my widget?
It is a shortcut that gives you an easy way to access the Geoblogosphere for your city. A visitor to your blog would see the link for their city. So if someone from London visits your blog, they would see a link that says "London's Blogosphere".Can I join the Geoblogosphere?
Yes you can if you have your own blog with an RSS feed that is hosted on it's own domain name, like example.com, or a sub-domain like myblog.blogger.com. You don't need to register. Simply install a FEEDJIT widget on your blog and you're all set. FEEDJIT will begin to crawl your blog and you will be included in the Geoblogosphere. Click here to get a FEEDJIT widget now.What will happen once my blog has joined the Geoblogosphere?
The first thing you'll notice is that FEEDJIT will send you visitors from your local town or city. FEEDJIT uses your blog reader's geographic location to determine which cities in the world your blog is popular in. Some blogs are popular in cities other than the city where the blog owner lives. So you might find your blog appearing in the Geoblogosphere both in your own city and another city. Or if your blog is only popular in a city other than your own, it will appear in that city exclusively.How long does it take for my site to appear in the Geoblogosphere
It can take anywhere from a few hours to several days, depending on the amount of traffic your site receives. It takes time for FEEDJIT to learn about your site and to figure out where you are in the Geoblogosphere. Once you appear in the Geoblogosphere, FEEDJIT will revisit your site whenever you have a new blog entry and your new entries should appear within a few hours after you post them.How are "Local Relevance" and "Local Popularity" scores calculated?
When you view a city in the Geoblogosphere for the first time we show you blogs ranked by their "Local Relevance" (the big numbers on the left). You can switch the view to "Local Popularity" by clicking the "Local Popularity" link at the top of the list of blogs.We calculate "Local Relevance" using our own formula that calculates how interesting a blog is to people in a particular city. Often you'll see blogs at the top of the list that don't get a huge amount of traffic from the rest of the world but are very relevant to people in the local area. If you write many blog entries about your local town or city, you'll probably find your blog close to the top of this list.
We calculate "Local Popularity" using the number of readers a blog gets from a certain geographic area. This is a much simpler method and usually shows more "main stream" blogs that aren't always local to the area.
Please Note: For "Local Popularity" and "Local Relevance" we consider a number of other factors when we rank blogs. These factors often include the following to varying degrees: freshness of the blogs content, adult content, spam and several other factors. We are also constantly experimenting with new algorithms in order to show more interesting and relevant blogs.
