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dj-grant
From: dj-grant | Blue_mail_icon Send a Message | View Podcast
Subject: Question about top 100 music podcasts
Posted: Fri Apr 18 12:32:03 -0700 2008

Just wondering how some of the podcasts get on the top 100?
I understand its based on your feeds, but given many aren't on pro and have 40+ minute podcasts, I can't see how they can get the amount of feed views and downloads to be in top 100 and not go way over the basic limit of bandwidth.

Can anyone share there feed views and downloads who are in top 100 or been in?
I'm not saying any of the podcasts aren't good enough for the top 100, I just don't see how those who aren't pro's with mixes that are about an Hour long are making it.

These are my stats as of Friday 2:28
This Week Last Week
Page views [?] 214 182
Feed views [?] 2195 2958
Downloads [?] 1398 1202
Unique visitors [?] 66 72
Subscribers [?] 454 537

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From: jdossey | Blue_mail_icon Send a Message | View Podcast
Subject: Re: Question about top 100 music podcasts
Posted: Fri Apr 18 13:27:12 -0700 2008

Rankings are currently based solely on uniques and subscribers. We basically just add the two numbers and sort by that "score".

In the near future, rankings will change dramatically because we will be excluding hits from automated systems (web crawlers, spiders, etc), so podcasts getting many crawler hits but few human hits (people using browsers, iTunes, etc) will drop in the rankings and podcasts getting many people but few search engines will rise.

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meyer
From: meyer | Blue_mail_icon Send a Message | View Podcast
Subject: Re: Question about top 100 music podcasts
Posted: Sun Apr 20 11:32:50 -0700 2008

"uniques" meaning "unique visitors". Thus, if you and a thousand of your buddies "visit" your page daily AND subscribe to it, you may well get high in the daily ratings but much lower in the overall ratings - overlap being discounted.

I don't know how to manage my automated visits, nor even how to discover what those numbers are or how mine compare to everyone else's. Will my ratings change significantly? My audience will not, and that's what really matters to me.
Dave M

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