How Do You Rate Your Blog, Is It Hot or Not?

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24307710.post-1143482968628830072006-03-27T09:47:00.000-08:002006-04-01T09:51:33.750-08:00How Do You Rate Your Blog, Is It Hot or Not?We can all check our ratings with Varb, but there are rumours that there may be some abuse. Also, that is all you get, a rating.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5205/2328/1600/bhonLogoBig.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 156px; height: 43px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5205/2328/320/bhonLogoBig.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>How about trying a site that runs on the old <a href="http://www.amihotornot.com/">AmIHotOrNot</a> principles (and is in fact run by the same people) and on top of that shows extra information about the number of people that have viewed your site over time (from 1 week to 1 year). <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5205/2328/1600/hotrate.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 219px; height: 89px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5205/2328/320/hotrate.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> Go to <a href="http://blog.hotornot.com">BlogHotOrNot</a>, enter your details, give a few keywords for your blog, add the obligatory image and off you go. The site is very simple to use. Navigation is limited to four or five options and these are easy to use. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5205/2328/1600/hotgraph.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5205/2328/320/hotgraph.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> Having said that, there are a couple of major limitations. Having set myself up I decided to try and rate a few sites. The only problem was that I couldn't find a way to do it. There is no way to do this from the site unless you go via the latest hot keywords and then select a site from a listing. The way people find your site is by clicking the <a href="http://blog.hotornot.com/r/?id=FJBQWVXYPGRJMTNFETREUQPDHRVUHVJN" target="_blank"><img src="http://blog.hotornot.com/img/?id=FJBQWVXYPGRJMTNFETREUQPDHRVUHVJN" border="0" /></a>link from your blog. The other disappointment was that once a site has been voted for, no more sites appeared. I was expecting to get a bit of free traffic, but that will not happen. These seem like major flaws to the system.Having said all of that, a few minutes of your time and a tiny link on your blog and you have a free and easy to use rating system set up. Give voting a try and see how it works (Hint: Bloggers like ratings of ten the best!).Go to <a href="http://blog.hotornot.com">BlogHotOrNot</a> to give the service a try. The service works well for what it is and after a few days, 6 people had rated my site, so some people do use it. I changed my logo box as I only had a rating of 5.25/10. It can't be my content...... Features: 4 Effort: 7 Interface: 6 Usefulness: 5 Overall: 7 StrangeNightshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06919737688185024756noreply@blogger.com