It’s My Imagination

What’s Your Rank?

April 30, 2008 on 1:25 pm | In Blogging |

It’s happening again, everybody is full of anticipation. Everyone wants to know if their blogs will be affected and will it be positive? Or, will their blog get spanked. Of course, if those blog owners are like me, it can’t get any lower, after all, it’s a big fat zero now, so, until they start passing out negative numbers, zero is as low as it can go.

What am I talking about? If you haven’t guessed it by now, you must be really new to blogging and haven’t experienced the Google spank before. That’s correct, Google can reach out and spank down your sites page rank when ever it so chooses, without providing any justification whatsoever. In fact, the last time Google did a smack down, bloggers of all types spent weeks, if not months, trying to figure out what they had done wrong. Some even went so far as to beg and plead with Google to rethink their slapping policy and begged for the page rank to be reinstated. Some blogs had page rank reinstated after their pleas were heard, others were basically ignored by the Google masters.

I chose to move on with my blogging life and let the big G do as it pleased. I neither begged nor pleaded and didn’t change my blogging ways. I continued with my goals of increasing my readership and writing quality content. If “G” doesn’t like what I do, so be it, it’s a big internet world out there.

In the mean time, Izea, a company that works FOR bloggers, not against them, worked diligently on created Real Rank, a new blog ranking system for any and all who choose to participate. One of the biggest difference’s between Izea’s Real Rank and Google’s page rank is that Real Rank ranks blogs ONLY against other blogs, not against every other website. Really, do I need to be told that this little old blog of mine is not anywhere close to being as poplular as say, Amazon.com? I don’t think so. I do like to know however, I compare to other blogs, that’s what is important to me.

As Izea say, “blog ranking system that uses real data to calculate which blogs are getting the most traffic and have the most influence on the web. IZEARanks ranks the top blogs in the blogosphere via actual site statistics, not an extrapolation of estimates”.

So, if you prefer to know how your blog is ranked in comparison with other blogs using real traffic data and no some complicated algorithm that Google itself can’t explain, click to get your own Izea Ranks and get in the game!

Tags: Izea Ranks, Real Rank