What's up with that "Top Watch Sites" badge?

Submitted by NOVA on April 3, 2011 - 6:17pm

Earlier today it read, "4", now it reads "5".  I would have sworn that a few days ago it was "1".  Who/what is controlling that, and what does it mean?

mybulova_admin
Posted April 3, 2011 - 7:45pm

It's the ranking in the "Top Watch" website and looks at the site hits as well as the Star ratings that a site is given. I was surprised when it was '1' but I think that is because it was new. I guess it's slowly dropping as the other sites fight back to get their No.1 ranking back.

Hey, I'm happy with this ranking, considering I only added the site a week ago.

Keep those 5 Star rating coming in folks!!

 

shooter144
Posted April 3, 2011 - 9:53pm

Its not very up to date either lol, says 5 now yet on the site we are 3....

NOVA
Posted April 3, 2011 - 11:06pm

Yep, I noticed the same thing when I went there a few minutes ago to vote. . . again. . . oops!  did I just say that?  (I was just following Shooter's advice.)

shooter144
Posted April 4, 2011 - 9:41am

In reply to by NOVA

My mother used to joke about that when I was a kid ...aparently in her youth, it was almost a slogan every nov lol...Early and Often !!!!!!

Keep up the good work Lisa !!!!

mybulova_admin
Posted April 4, 2011 - 12:02am

Not that I encourage that sort of behaviour, but if you just so happen to randomly click links and find yourself accidently clicking that 5 star thingy....well....oops...

Every little bit helps in getting more awareness of the site and the useful information that it contains.

bourg01
Posted April 5, 2011 - 7:05pm

My guess is that if your not getting a number of ratings daily, your rating average drops off over time.

ie, a whole bunch of members cast our votes, rating went to 5. Now nobody's rating you and it's dropped off to 1.

I really don't think that should matter all that much, more and more folks are coming to the site all the time, word from members is getting around, slower, but far more effective.

 

shooter144
Posted April 5, 2011 - 7:53pm

OOps. I think I may have voted...again...

FifthAvenueRes…
Posted April 6, 2011 - 6:40am

...just wondering how this 'top watch sites' site ranks with google.

Not very high apparantly.

mybulova_admin
Posted April 6, 2011 - 7:03am

This is the 3rd site I've registerd with. The last 2 just dissapeared and stopped working. I doubt it helps a great deal but its nice to know that its rated well against other sites, no thanks to the wonderful members on the site.