Blogbuzz

Just what the world of blogging needs right? Another Ranking system. Well, I think in this case that it’s true, this system is needed. I think so because it will be based not on popularity, or the number of inbound links or pagerank, rankspank, realrank, thoofrank or or how many diggs, stumbles, propellers, sphinns or whatevers that a page or site has.

Instead, BuzzRank is going to be about the blog being reviewed and ranked. It’s going to take into account such things as readability (which includes font, font size, color combinations), use of graphics, writing style, the ability of the writer to get their point across clearly without being needlessly vile or obscene, and other technical issues such as how long it takes to load and how hard it is to find the actual blog content as compared to things like advertising and navigation links and general layout.

Granted, BuzzRank will be entirely based on my own personal opinions, however it will be geared to reflect the readability and clarity of any given blog and the ease of use for that most important person, the reader.

I’m going to work out a list of the factors that I’ll be scoring each blog on. Each factor will be assigned a numerical value and then the total of all factors will be given, probably as a percentage. The idea is that a BuzzRank score of 100% is the ideal blog and 0% is the worst possible nightmarish waste of bandwidth you can imagine.

As I work out the values that will be included in BuzzRank I’ll post the details of what they are and how I intend to score each of them. Once I have the whole thing worked out, I’ll start assigning BuzzRank scores to all blogs reviewed here.

By the way, I don’t expect any blog to ever get a 100% score or a 0% score for that matter. I simply intend for it to be an indication of how good a blog is overall from a reader’s point of view.