The newest blog ranking system in the blogosphere is the illustrious IZEARanks, the brainchild of Ted Murphy (Murphy is a “serial entrepreneur” and CEO of PayPerPost, IZEA, MindComet, Social Spark, Rock Startup, and those really cool Blogger’s Choice Awards). IZEARanks has a system called “RealRank” that determines a blog’s value by its actual traffic and content. Gone are the days of arbitrary valuation (like Page Rank), the inaccurate stats of the toolbar (Alexa), and the begging for alms from other bloggers (Technorati’s “authority” numbers). RealRank is a formula that monitors your unique visitors, page views, and inbound links. The clincher is that the valuation determination is completely candid. This is from the IZEARanks FAQ page:
Unlike other ranking systems, the RealRank scoring algorithm is public. The system weights blogs 70% on daily unique visitors, 20% by daily active inbound links and 10% by daily page views as reported by ITK. Participants can choose to expose just their RealRank score or expand reporting to include other data such as pageviews and visits. This provides advertisers with the most comprehensive and relevant view of a blog’s ability to meet specific campaign goals. RealRank is the first site ranking service that focuses exclusively on measuring the traffic and influence of individual blogs throughout the blogosphere.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been jumping for joy ever since RealRank was debuted a few weeks ago. I use it for all my blogs. My travel blog is Number One in travel at IZEARanks.com!
There’s a lot you can do with your RealRank stats. You can check your own blogs stats, compare all your blogs’ stats with each other, compare your blog with other blogs, and more. Here’s how Mrs. Mecomber’s Scrapbook rates:
Hmmm…. looks like I could use some more visitors to boost my ranks, wouldn’t you say? With RealRank, the lower the number the better (as in a #1 RealRank means you are NUMBER ONE!) This blog has a way to go before reaching number one, but I can see where I need to improve, thanks to RealRank. The next photo shows a comparison of my three blogs:
The great thing with RealRank is: the more the merrier! The more blogs that join the IZEARanks community, the more it adds to the value of the entire blogosphere. RealRank is the free tool that measures your place in the community, and lets you (and others) see the value of your blog. It is far superior to any other blog ranking system, ever.
I highly recommend that if you have a blog, use RealRank. It’s very easy to use– it’s a piece of code that you insert in your html, just as you do with stat counters and such. Plus, IZEARanks.com offers a little badge that you can place in your sidebar, to display your RealRank status (you also have the option of keeping your stats private). The time has finally come for us bloggers to have a worthy, standardized blog ranking system. RealRank meets this need. The more bloggers who join, the better our blogs are valuated. Check out IZEARanks.com for more!
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It’s a great concept except the advertisers aren’t really using it much yet, at least in my experience. My blog with the PR 3 and a terrible RR has pages and pages of ops, whereas the PR 0 blog with a much better RR although not great (my traffic has been down since the new year significantly) has maybe 2 ops total if I am lucky and they are the same ones for weeks.
Well, I’m no milquetoast when it comes to bashing PPP’s policy in retaining PR as an advertiser option. It is a DISASTER, and I think it reflects negatively on PPP. But they won’t drop it. I and others have made quite the stink about it.
I lost PR on all 4 of my blogs. But my RR has been outstanding on two of them, another is moderate, and this one is still getting started. I have had some high-paying opps with my RR in the top 10%, and even a few in the top 30%. But the opp market is so unstable right now, that opps are difficult to come by. I think the best thing PPP can do is dump PR. The excuse that “advertisers want it” is lame– PR has been hyped up at PPP, and it PPP did fine before it was included. PR is not necessary to run a p2blog business.
Hope you get better opps. Me, too!