UPDATE 25/5/2018

Social rating site Klout has now closed. You can read more on the Lithium Community.

So Does You’re Klout Score Carry Any Real Klout?……. No ? Then Read My Guide and Tutorial To Klout

Well, let’s start this Klout Guide and Tutorial by explaining what exactly Klout is.

Klout is a website that measures the Social Media Influence of a user through his or her connected social media services, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Instagram and Klout itself.

Your Klout score is also influenced on whether or not you have a Wikipedia page and how many inbound links it has.

So How is Your Klout Score Calculated?

Your score is given a number from 0-100, 100 being the highest; no one currently has a score of 100. On the other hand, to score 0, you must not be involved in any social media.

The average Klout score is 40, and only 5% of users have “high” scores of 63 and above.

I have never really paid much attention to Klout until I read an article recently that I found on Social Media Revolver, about the plus points of using Klout and Triberr.

I’m not going to write too much about Triberr because I have written a guide/tutorial of my own that explains the in’s and outs of Triberr, covering Tribes, Bonfires and all the other feature of the site,

You can read my Triberr Beginners Guide Here

Here is a section of the Social Media Revolver Article that i read that initially got me interested again in Klout and Triberr and inspired me to write this Klout Guide.

Triberr and Klout. What are these strange new social websites?

I have a confession to make. I had never heard of Triberr before I read Eugene Farber‘s article 12 Rules to Increase Your Klout Score.  I was somewhat familiar with Klout, but I had not really paid any attention to that one either. I knew that Klout was some sort of an influence measuring tool based on your presence and interactions on the web.

People’s social online influence is evaluated by their Klout Score, which uses data from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Foursquare. As I am heavily involved with all of those social platforms (well maybe not Foursquare that much) I thought I’d better go and have a look what my Klout score might be. It was 39. That’s not very good is it? If the scale goes from 1 to 100, then 39 is like a D+ or C-. I think I’d better do something about it.

 

So after reading the Social Media Revolver article, I checked my Klout score, I already had a Klout account that I had also not really done anything with, with a very similar score in the low 40s. All that I had connected to Klout was my Facebook Account so I wasn’t really measuring anything with Klout. I’m not really a Facebook Fan or a Facebook user, I tend to use Facebook just for sharing articles that I write, I’m much more of an avid fan of Google Plus and what it can do particularly for blog writers on Google Search, so much so that I have written a Google Plus Guide / Tutorial you can read it here – Google Plus Complete Guide To Google Plus.

Having just Facebook connected was just really working Klout at well under 50% capacity so I added my Google Plus and Twitter accounts to see what kind of influence they would have on my Klout Score. and the results can be seen below

As expected there was a big jump when I added my Google Plus and Twitter accounts, but not really as bigger jump as I had expected, I assume at this stage that my score will rise as Klout realises just how active I am on Google Plus, it’s no exageration to say that im 10x more active on Google Plus than I am on Facebook, so we will watch how this impacts my score over the coming weeks and month’s, but it is good to know that my Klout Score is in the top 5%.

Does You’re Klout Score Carry Any Klout – Klout Guide And Tutorial Conclusion

Klout is one of those sites that although useful you don’t really need it. You already know that if your +Plus one and Like counts are good then your not doing to badly and you don’t really need the metrics but saying that you can also score from your activity within Klout by clicking +k other members content and you do find some great content in there which is often worth sharing, and by doing so you may well make some new contacts and gain some new social media influencers to your own blogs and social media sites.

InfoBunny Pro Tip

You can add a Klout Extension to your chrome browser or if your a FireFox user there is a browser plugin you can use to social share to both Twitter and Facebook.

To your continued success!

Regards Dexter Roona

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