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  1. What is Blog Neighborhood?
  2. What is BlogBack?
  3. What is RSS Discovery?
  4. What is Blog Influence Quotient?
  5. What is Googlative?
  6. How are the Rankings / Top Blogs decided?
  7. How are the Top Books decided?
  8. What is a Blogroll?
  9. What are the benefits of accurate identification of my Blogroll by BlogStreet?
  10. Does BlogStreet recognize blogrolls maintained through BlogRolling.com?
  11. What is Count?
  12. How often are the stats updated?
  13. How do I add my Weblog / RSS feed?

  1. What is Blog Neighborhood?

    It is a tool for discovering other blogs which are similar to a blog.
    For Blog Authors, their Neighborhood is a pool of blogs to track. Treat it as a list of blogs you *should* be knowing about.
    For Readers, it helps them to find more blogs similar to a blog they have liked.
    The Blog Neighbourhood groups together blogs of a similar nature, allowing you to find other bloggers writing about the same kind of things.

    The natural question is how does BlogStreet decide whats related to what. Well, its a God gift. More seriously, we take into account whom you blogroll and who blogrolls you, add to that a few other factors, give weightage to all the factors and there it is - the Neighborhood.

  2. What is BlogBack?

    BlogBack lists those blogs which are blogrolling you. It helps in knowing those blogs which hold you in high regard so as to put you on their blogroll.
    Note that BlogBack shows only those blogs which have your blog in their blogroll and doesn't consider those which just link to you in their blog posts.
    A link in a blog post is of a comparatively temporary nature while that in a blogroll holds more value.

  3. What is RSS Discovery?

    Is there a blog you like and want to add it to your RSS aggregator, but are not able to find the URL of its RSS feed?
    RSS Discovery will automatically find the RSS feed of a blog if it has one. It accepts a blog URL and on success in finding the RSS URL, reads and displays the latest feed, thus acting as a RSS reader. Also shows the time when the blog was last updated and other details about the feed.

    You can even use RSS Discovery as a blog reader if you are not in a mood to go to the blog and load its entire homepage. Here you get just the new content and can know whether and when was the blog upated.

  4. What is Blog Influence Quotient?

    Blog Influence Quotient is decided on the basis of Who's blogrolling a blog. Its an indicator of your importance and influence in the blog world. Your BIQ goes up if a blog with a high Rank blogrolls you and if the Rank of those blogrolling you is not high than your BIQ plummets.

    Note that its not important how many people blogroll you i.e. the quantity, but what matters is who blogrolls you i.e. the quality. It takes into account the number of popular bloggers who think you are important to them. Therefore believing that if you are important to them and a lot many of them then you yourself should be very important. Get it? No? Read it again.

  5. What is Googlative?

    Googlative stands for "Google Relatives" :) What appears under Googlatives are blogs which Google thinks are related to your Blog. Its there to provide you a different perspective vis-a-vis what BlogStreet thinks is related to your Blog in terms of Blog Neighborhoods. You need to provide your free Google Key to be able to make use of it.

  6. How are the Rankings / Top Blogs decided?

    Rankings are an indicator of popularity. Rank of a blog is its position with respect to other blogs. Top Blogs are decided on the number of blogs blogrolling them. The more blogs have your blog in their blogroll, the higher will be its Rank.

    Note that BlogStreet only counts those blogs which have your blog in their blogroll and doesn't consider those which just link to you in their blog posts for Rankings.

  7. How are the Top Books decided?

    Popularity is decided by counting links to books on Amazon.com. Therefore if many blogs mention a book and link to its Amazon.com page than its chances of making it to "Top Books" increases.

    This list is an indicator of the current pulse in the blogosphere - what topics are hot and attracting interest. Imagine if you could walk around the world unobserved and snoop into what people are reading and talking about... Now you can.

  8. What is BlogRoll?

    A Blogroll is a collection of links to favourite blogs, usually placed on the blog homepage. Its a fairly permanent list maintained by the blog author which he/she frequently visits.

  9. What are the benefits of accurate identification of my Blogroll by BlogStreet?

    Accurate identification of a blog's blogroll has many benefits. The biggest being the effect on a blog's Neighborhood. The more accurate BlogStreet's identification of your blogroll the better the quality and relevance of your Blog Neighborhood. It also helps in making sure that your blog shows up in the list when the owners of the blogrolled blogs check their BlogBack.

    Edit the template of your blog homepage to enclose the entire blogroll links list within the following start and end tags:
    <span class="blogstreet:blogroll">
    </span>

  10. Does BlogStreet recognize blogrolls maintained through BlogRolling.com?

    Yes it does. Your blogroll will be accurately identified even if you are maintaining it through the BlogRolling.com service.

    But please note that BlogStreet only recognizes the first encountered blogroll if there are multiple BlogRolling.com loaded blogrolls on the same page.

  11. What is Count?

    It is the number of blogs that have your blog in their blogroll.

  12. How often are the stats updated?

    There are various kinds of updates that happen periodically on BlogStreet. As far as updates to the likes of Rankings and BlogBack are concerned they are supposed to be a daily affair.

  13. How do I add my Weblog / RSS feed?

    Click Here to submit your blog for addition. Please note that as part of the addition process it is required to link to BlogStreet with the code generated for you. A mail containing the default generated code is sent to the email address provided. You can choose the image with which to link to BlogStreet.

    If your blog has a RSS feed and it is linked to from the blog's homepage than BlogStreet's RSS Discovery should automatically identify it. In this case you need not add the RSS feed separately. Otherwise to add an independent feed to the RSS Directory Click Here.


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