Exactly how popular or influential is your URL when someone is searching for info on a specific topic?
About - Why is my rank imporant?
Say you've just written a new article on your blog. You want the
world to read it, and you've tried everything short of spamming to
announce it. On the day you wrote it, you enter the title of your
blog into search engines, and no luck - it doesn't even figure in
the first 10 pages of search results. You link to it from your
facebook profile, trackback and do everything in your power to
popularize it. But only time can tell if your words have weight.
As more and more people read your article, comment on it, digg it
and refer their own friends to it, its rank will improve. Grankit
analyzes the vast network of linkages to your article including
Search Engine Results, Opinion Pages and Social Networks to
determine how "influential" your article really is.
Isn't my Page Rank sufficient?
Let's put it this way. We all know and recognize Albert Einstein's
genius and, no doubt, his home page, if he had one, would enjoy a
very high page rank. But suppose you're looking for advice on the
best camera to buy. You wouldn't read Einstein's blog about
cameras (despite his Nobel prize winning treatise on optics),
would you? You'd rather read what Helmut Newton has to say on
this issue. That's why even though a person may enjoy high page
rank in a certain field, the concept of his or her influence in a
particular domain is a subtle issue. Grankit searches for and
calculates a person's influence along the richly multi-dimensional
fabric of a person's impacts on his or her varied fields of
interest.
The Grankit API
You can get Grankit results in the form of an industry standard
JSON object to
incorporate into your own application or widget. The object will
include your search terms, the URL fragment you want to evaluate
on search engines, and its rank each time it was ranked in the
past. So you can tell not only what your URL's rank is with
respect to your search terms, but also the historical trend over
time.
Here is a sample object with instructions on how
to use it.
Set up an auto-granker
Soon you will be able to specify a ranking schedule that lets you
automatically check and record your URL's rank once per day. For
now, feel free to email us (grankit at gmail) with the search
term and the url fragment, which we will manually insert into our
scheduler.
