Newsvine Algorithm and potential ranking factors for exposure.

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As I do more and more social media optimization I can see that there is a pattern to most of these sites. Just like there is a pattern to SEO and Marketing (a formula … if you will). The exciting thing about all of these types of jobs is that every keyword, every site and every social media is different and gives us the opportunity to stay on our toes.

I was recently working on newsvine.com looking into how to draw traffic and how to get articles onto the first page of a given catagory. While I was looking this site over I jotted a list together of potential ranking factors for newsvine.com.

• Reputation of Profile
  • How many friends does a profile have
  • How many people have you on their watchlist
  • How long your profile has been around
  • How well your articles and or seeds have been received
  • Are a majority of users story or articles from ONE url
  • How many times a article or seed has become popular
  • Your vineacity rank
  • How many articles you have submitted and how well they have done
  • How many popular comments you have received
• Reputation of friends profile
  • How reputable a friends profile is gives weight on votes on your own post
• Comments
  • How many comments does a certain story get
  • How many positive votes do the comments get
• Submit a like story related to what has been submitted by newsvine for your specific targeted catagory.
  • A majority of links that are submitted that are related to a newsvine story tend to appear under the top seeds section
• What domain name a story is submitted from
  • A majority of “wires” come from newspaper sites and writers and do not have many comments or votes but are on the top page because of where they are submitted from.
• Groups
  • How many groups you are a member of
  • How active you are in the groups
  • how long you have been in a group
• Number of views
  • A high number of views with no votes could mean no one likes the story and subsequently your entry will never make it to a top page.
  • Length of views
• Hand Jobs
  • Just like some of the major search engines and social media sites there is a good chance they do hand jobs thanks to people like me
• Source of votes
  • Tracking IP addresses
  • Tracking browser id’s
  • Tracking login account ID’s could help newsvine keep track of vote groups who’s sole purpose is to vote, comment and help rank articles on the home page or sub page
• Follow the Code of Honor!
• The “Freshness Factor”
  • How new the article is. Older content will get pushed down eventually.

Something that I found pretty interesting is that newsvine actually gives you some sort of insight into there ranking algorithm by showing you a chart they call “vineacity”. I have posted the image below. Special thanks to Aine MacDermot for some extra insight into how newsvines ranking is determined.

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