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The ranking shown on each member profile next to the name of that member's blog(s) is based on the number of unique readers each day for the past seven days. This is the overall ranking out of tens of thousands of blogs on Blogit and not the ranking within a particular category.
"Unique readers" means that no matter how often someone reads a blog, they are only counted once when the rankings are calculated. The purpose is to ensure fair rankings by allowing each person to only "vote" once.
Since the rankings are calculated over seven days, even four days is not necessarily sufficient to change a blog's ranking. The calculation favors consistency over single-day popularity.
The ranking within a category -- which you can view by clicking on the name of the category on the list on the home page -- is based on the overall rankings but ranks only the blogs in that specific category
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BlogitStaff
on April 17, 2006 at 12:33 PM
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