Real-Time Whats Hot - F. A. Q.

What is Wowzio's Real-Time Whats Hot?
Wowzio's "Real-Time Whats Hot" provides a real-time view of your blog posts that readers are engaging with, right NOW. It looks at the most recent visits to your blog, to determine up to 15 hottest posts. It also aggregates the top 3 referers to each of those blog posts, so you can see right away the sources on the web thats sending readers to your posts. Need more insight ? Click on the 'more' link for the resp. blog post.
How can I enable my blog's "Real-Time Whats Hot"?
When you install one of Wowzio's widgets or badges for your blog on your blog, your blog's "Real-Time Whats Hot" feature is enabled.
Where can I see my blog's "Real-Time Whats Hot" view?
You can find the link to your 'Real-Time Whats Hot' page on your 'SeeWidgets' page. You can reach your 'SeeWidgets' page by clicking on the 2nd link in your widget's bottom signature bar. As an example, for the 'Filmonic' blog, the 'SeeWidgets' page is at http://www.wowzio.com/widgets/seewidgets?ids=53144. On the 'SeeWidgets' page you'll find a link to your 'Real-Time Whats Hot' page. In our example 'Filmonic' blog, its 'Real-Time Whats Hot' page is at http://www.wowzio.com/blogs/realtimewhatshot?ids=53144.
How does "Real-Time Whats Hot" work?
Wowzio's widgets ( and badges ) have a built-in javascript beacon, which beacons relevant information back to Wowzio's Geo-Popularity platform, when a user engages with a blog post. This information forms the underlying data that is exposed in various useful forms. 'Real-Time Whats Hot' is one such useful form.
What data do we store?
We store information about a blog post, details about its various read-events, including the geo-location of the user reading it.
What data do we not store?
We do not store any personally identifiable information of the user reading a blog post.

Real-Time Whats Hot" for your Blog

You have just posted a new blog article, and it gets dugg ( or stumbled, buzz'd, twittered or even picked up by a major newswire ), resulting in high traffic. Wouldn't you like to find out about this right away, so you could make sure you take the right action(s) to maximize on the opportunity that has presented itself.

Another scenerio is where you are trying something new with a blog post, and would like to see how well it is able to pull traffic, in real time.

If you have ideas on how this feature can be made more useful, we would love to hear from you. You can send us feedback via our feedback form or via email to feedback[at]wowzio[dot]com