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What is Alianzo?

Alianzo Rank measures influence of brands and people in social media. Are your social media burning up?

The influence in Alianzo is called temperature 2.0 and it is measured utilising the Celsius scale.

What do we consider a social media?

A social media is a web page where the content is provided by the users. The content can be news and comments are ordered chronologically (like blogs), a video (like Youtube), short texts (Twitter), images (Flickr for example) or a social network, which usually includes all previous mentioned. They are called media as their main aim is the communication among people.

User account

Your user account is private and it is used to administrate your profile(s). Logging in, you can create and update your profile(s) when you want.

Your personal data are private and will never be seen by the other users.

How do I register my user account?

To start using Alianzo, there are 3 different ways to register:

Click the button “Register with Facebook" and then complete the required fields. Your facebook personal account will only be used to access to your Alianzo user and your personal data will never be seen by the other users.
Click the button “Register with Twitter" and then complete the required fields. Your twitter personal account will only be used to access to your Alianzo user and your personal data will never be seen by the other users.
Click the button “Register" and enter the required data in the correct fields.

If you first registered with Facebook, you can also add your twitter account to log in and viceversa.

Alianzo profiles

A profile can be represented by a brand, a product, a professional, a public figure, a character, a famous person, an entrerprise, a mass media, a public institution... everyone who wants to measure their influence in social media channels.

Be careful!Each profile can only be associated with one blog, one twitter account, one facebook page and one youtube channel. Each user can create as many profiles as wanted and then associate their corresponding social media with them.

Each profiles shows:

Name of the profile and representing image.
Alianzo Rank position and the evolution in the ranking.
Every social media collected data.
The position in each top (Blog, Twitter, Facebook y Youtube) and the evolution within each one.

How can I create Alianzo Profiles?

You can create and update your profile(s) from the "My profiles" dashboard you will find below your user data. Click the button “Create new Profile” to add a new one.

For your Profile making up you have to choose a name, select one category and a unique language (the same as you use to communicate with your followers) and a location (country, region and city). It is very important to be certain of every selection you make because it will have an importante influence on rankings classification and on user searchs.

Moreover, it is important that you add description and tags of your Profile and which will help your reputation in Alianzo network.

How do I update my profile(s)?

Each profile only has one blog, one twitter account, a Facebook page and a Youtube chanel.

If you own or administer various blogs, twitter, facebook or youtube account, you must create one profile for each brand, product, person, group or organization.

Click the button "Edit Profile" if you want to modify or eliminate any data.

How do I become a fan of an Alianzo Profile?

As a particular user (not as a profile user), you can be a fan of a Profile you like by clicking the button next to the profile's name. There you can see the number of fans, but not the user names.The amount of fans show how many users are fan of the complete media profile of this brand, product, person, group or organization.

Can one profile have more than one user administrators?

Yes, you can include your mates as profile administrators clicking on "Add administrator" button.

Invite your colleagues writing their email address in Alianzo website. If he or she is not registered in the web, we will send them an email saying they are being invited to register in order to manage the profile.

How do I become existing profile's manager?

Once you have created a profile, push the button “Check” to ensure your brand name already exists in Alianzo. Once you have passed this step, it will show you a message asking to become profile administrator. Explain to us why you should be the manager of this profile and we will fix it as soon as possible.

Can I create a competitor brand's profile?

Yes. In Alianzo you can create profiles without an administrator. If you don't find the profile of the brand or person you are looking for, you can create it and don't associate to any administrator. We will manage those profiles without administrator until the owner claims.

Searching

To look for profiles in Alianzo, you have a free text search box where you can define your search selecting the type of information you are looking for: twitter account, facebook page, youtube channels, blogs, Linkedin, Foursquare or Alianzo profiles.

Free search allows you to find top ranks and profiles by word(s) related to the profile name and/or to the associated tags and/or to the profile category.

Thermometer 2.0 and Alianzo Rank

Thermometer 2.0

This thermometer measures the temperature 2.0 (influence) of your social media. Clearly, it measures your social media success taking into account the activity generated around them.

Your temperature is calculated from 0ºC to 100 ºC scale depending on the results of each top rank (links, comments, likes, followers...)

Your top rank position depends on your 2.0 temperature:

It's boiling point!: Only the first one of reaches 100 ºC.
It's burning up!: from 80 ºC to 99ºC
It's hot!: from 60 ºC to 79 ºC
It's on!: from 40 ºC to 59 ºC
It's chilly: from 20 ºC to 39 ºC
It's cold: from 0ºC to 19 ºC

Alianzo Rank

Alianzo Rank is our special Rank, the ranking of rankings by Alianzo, which establishes the total resounding influence of a social media profile.

Alianzo Rank is generated by your total temperature in all your social media registered in Alianzo. It calculates the ºC, summing up all the Rankings: Twitter, Facebook, Blog , Youtube, Linkedin and Foursquare

Top Blogs

Is the ranking that calculates the temperature 2.0 (influence) of a blog according to its search engine queries, the blog visits, related links, virality and subscribers.

We consider a web page as a blog when it contains news and comments in chronologial order (last goes first). Besides, it can include RSS, user comments and other usual (but not essential) features.

Specifically, we use tools to measure the popularity of a site, like Google Reader subscriptions, Google BlogSearch's incoming links, Alexa's position, Yahoo's incoming links, Google's incoming links, the number of mentions in several Digg's clones, and votes in Menéame.

Top Twitter

Is the ranking that calculates the temperature 2.0 (influence) of a twitter user by basing it on the number of followers and followings, mentiones and retweets of its publications.

Top Facebook

Is the ranking that calculates the temperature 2.0 (influence) a facebook page depending on the the number of fans and the volume of the latest activity on it.

We only collect facebook pages data. Although Facebook is now offfering personal profiles suscriptions, we are not taking them into account for the moment.

Top Youtube

Is the ranking that calculates the spreading of a youtube video channel according to the number of views, subscribers and interaction bwtween users and the channel.

top Foursquare

Is the ranking that calculates the temperature 2.0 (influence) of people and places in Foursquare depending on their checkins+mayorships+friends+ lists+events+tips respectively.

Special Rank

This is used to compare profiles. We regularly launch a special ranking with a selection of the media brand and people leaders of the moment.

Be aware of the next one! ;)

Premium

Premium privileges

Unlimited number of positions : as a premium user you only need to push the button “see more“ or “following“ to to display all web pages and be able to check all 2.0 temperatures, bloggers and brands: From one who is boiling (100º) to the other one which is cold (0ºC), and their positions in each ranking.

Complete profiles and their evolution:Premium user can see all the profiles in full: all activity data collected from every social, temperature 2.0, in this position for each ranking and their evolution during the time in each case.

Cross searching filters:Premium user can limit to the maximum the interesting profiles you see in every ranking. You can specify the language, category and the country, region and city from brands and bloggers are to see in every moment. So you can apreciate, for example, ranking of fashion bloggers form Barcelona in Catalan or sports facebook pages from Buenos Aires in English

Compare brands:as a Premium user you can compare brands creating Personal Rankings.These rankings allow you to include 2 to 20 competitors who want to compare your 2.0 temperature.Push the button “Create” in Personal Ranking section of your Premium menu and follow the instructions.

E-mails and tweet viralizer:This powerful tool allows you to send messages automatically by one to one with your press releases, advertisements and offers to the profiles you select by category, language and localization. It is necessary that all messages contain a direct benefit to the administrator for each user profile, in this way most contacted bloggers and media will continue receiving messages

How do I obtain a Premium account?

You should fill in the form to sing your membership, it takes you a few seconds.Fill in the company's or person's details and you can start enjoying your privileges. Free for 30 days!

For further information,here you can check the terms of sale of our site.

How do I acces to my premium tools?

As soon as you start session in Alianzo, at the top in the right side appears your Premium Menu with all the tools

Searching filters: in order to define to the most the classifications. Use the filters to select each characteristic and push on “Searching” for all new selections and push on “Clean all" and filter again.

Alianzo Rank
Twitter
Facebook
Youtube
Blogs
Linkedin
Foursquare

Personal rankings: In order to compare yourself with your competitors

See: To see the evolution of the ones' that are created.
Create:to create a new one.

Viralizer to send messages to more than one profile automatically

Emails
Tweets

Alianzo Cash

Is the official currency of Alianzo Premium and it is divided in:

MailCash: It is for the e-mail Viralizer usage so as to contact with bloggers, brands and channels. Each email costs as much MailCash as points has in the Alianzo's profile. Example: One email in Mashable costs 32 MailCash because it has 32 points in Alianzo Rank.
TweetCash It is for the Twitter Viralizer usage so as to contact with bloggers, brands and channels. All your tweets cost the same:1 TweetCash = 1 Tweet.

€ Accumulate ones:

In Alianzo we reward for your effort reading the emails sent by other brands and bloggers, as simple as that. For each read email we give you as much euro cents as ºC you have in Alianzo Rank in this moment. Easy, isn't it? When you accumulate 10€ you could make your credict effective.

In any case, this service is optional for you. If you are not interested in receiving any messages you can desactivate the service clicking in “Edit user” and desselect the notifications box.

Algorithm

How are each profile's degrees measured?

Each ranking is generated by an algorithm application which combines datas coming from different sources:

Alianzo Rank: The sum of every data from each channel: twitter, blog, facebook, youtube, linkedin y foursquare.
Top Blogs: Google Blogsearch links (This measures how many blogs link to another), links in Google, Google Reader subscriptions, links to Yahoo!, Meneame votes, position in Alexa (only if it has its own domain) and Digg votes.
Top Twitter: Tweets, Retweets, replies, followers, difference between followings and followers and the participating lists
Top Facebook: number of fans and activity volume (Likes, comments and shares in the last 10 posts)
Top Youtube: the amount of published videos and channel visualizations, media subscribers, comments on videos, favourites, playlists and contacts.
Top Foursquare:

People: number of check-ins, badges, mayorships and friends.
Places: number of check-ins, events, lists and tips.

Top Linkedin:

Profesionnals: number of contacts and recommendations.
Enterprises: number of followers and employees.

when are the rankings updated?

Our tool is collecting different data everyday but rankings are weekly updated.

What does variation mean?

The variation is the registered evolution in the ranking regarind the last update of the ranking.

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