What is Popular Article Ranking?

 

What is Popular Article Ranking?

The popular article ranking is the daily ranking of blog articles belonging to the official genre. It will be the ranking within the genre by the official genre unit. There is no ranking for the entire Ameblo. Since this ranking is for each article, it is possible for multiple articles to be ranked from one blog.

 

However, this popular article ranking is a ranking that has many mysteries and it is difficult to guess the aggregation method.

 

Announcement ranking up to 1000th place

The ranking is ranked from 1st to 1000th for 1 day of 1 article. Rank 1001 and below are out of range. You can check your ranking on the blog management screen if your ranking is within the top 1000. There is no display for out-of-range.

You can see all your articles ranked up to 1000th place 

There are multiple aggregation elements

The number of accesses is not the only aggregation method. It seems that ranking is done by aggregating multiple factors. I presume that there are four elements, but the relative weight is not clear. However, it is certain that the number of accesses is the biggest factor.

1. Number of accesses 85%

2. Number of likes 5%

3. Number of comments 5%

4. Number of reblogs 5%

There is no basis for the numerical value of each element.

Ameblo pinned comment

Articles with many "likes", "comments", and "reblogs" will have fixed comments on the popular article ranking page.

Comments are as follows.

 

Popular article comment

Even if there are more than three, there is only one fixed comment. It's not clear how many will get this pinned comment. Since the number of "likes" with fixed comments varies greatly depending on the genre, I think it is highly likely that the ranking will be based on the relative ranking of the top three articles during the aggregation period, rather than the number. Looking at the popular article ranking page, there are quite a lot of fixed comments, but once this comment is attached, the fixed comment will remain attached until it falls out of the ranking range.

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Just because there are many "likes", "comments", and "reblogs" does not mean that there are many accesses. In particular, "Like" and "Reblog" cannot be done without an account, so it is not a standard for measuring the number of accesses of readers who are not logged in to Ameba.

Is the collection period flexible?

Next is a guess about the aggregation period.

The aggregation period is not from 0 to 24 hours. The ranking is announced around 8:00 every morning, but it doesn't seem to be the tally for the previous day.

Understanding this aggregation period is a very important factor in aiming for the top ranking. This is because if all the time periods with the most access are not included within the aggregation period, the aggregated figures will be distributed over two days. For example, let's say there were 10,000 PV in 3 hours after the article was published. If this goes over the aggregation period, 5,000 PV and 5,000 PV will be counted and aggregated on separate days, resulting in half the number of accesses. The number of likes and comments is the same.

Then, the totals are not clearly understood from what time to what time are the totals calculated. At least it's not a zero-hour separator. My guess is that it switches between 20 and 24 hours. It may not be the same every day. Therefore, I think that there is no doubt that it will be released after 0:00 in order to be included in the total period. Peak access is said to be between 7:00, 12:00, and 20:00-23:00. For that reason, I think that it is important to publish between 0:00 and 6:00 in order to aim for a high ranking in this popular article ranking.

Why isn't there a 0-hour separator?

In the case of theme-specific genres, the content of the article will be checked by the staff, and if the content does not match the theme, it will be excluded from the ranking. There is a possibility that this staff will check the content of articles, so it may not be possible to collect data during the fixed collection period of 0:00 to 24:00.

I don't know what about articles that don't have a staff check, such as dairy genres, because they haven't been investigated that far.

The guideline for ranking is hundreds of PV in popular genres and dozens of PV in other genres. If you do not rank in the ranking with more than 1,000 PV, it may be excluded by the staff check. In addition, it may be ranked as one day late or two days late.

Even if the number of accesses exceeds 10,000, it is not necessarily ranked high. Anyway, it's a mysterious ranking.

To aim for the top

It is important to adjust the publication time to aim high in this ranking. Overall rankings and genre comprehensive rankings are aggregates of the number of accesses for the blog as a whole, not aggregates for each article. Since all articles are targeted, there is almost no impact if they are published at the same time every day. Therefore, if you don't care about the popular article ranking, I think that the article publication time should simply be before the time zone when access increases. However, in order to aim for a high ranking in this ranking, it is necessary to include all of the access peaks in the aggregation period. I think that it is good to publish the article as early as possible in the morning.