The measurement, the ranking formula and the disclosure rules, written out in full. If a number appears on a billboard, the post explaining it is here.
The organic order is a weighted score recomputed every 24 hours from verified traffic, dwell, geographic spread and founder reply rate. Here is every term in it, and why reply rate is weighted hardest.
A visitor count only means something if the things it excludes are stated. Sessions, dwell caps, coarse country codes, and why we never store an IP address.
Exactly one position in each feed can be bought, badged in place and priced by demand. Every other position is earned and permanently off the market. What we sell, what we do not, and the disclosure rules we hold ourselves to.
