Real Rank for all Bloggers
Posted in Search Marketing by jspirko on February 7th, 2008 
Izea is working really hard to get the message out about Real Rank. Which you can sign up for at IZEARanks.com. I had my doubts about Real Rank in the begining but I really like the way this service is shaping up. My biggest concen is in the beginning it looked like Real Rank was just something for bloggers doing PayPerPost or in the future those in Social Spark. However, Real Rank is now open to any and all blogs including those that don't have any interest in PayPerPost or any paid blogging service.
The way IZEARanks works is by using a simple piece of javascript to collect and report a rank based on actual traffic. You can choose whether you want to display page views and visitors or just your RealRank. Oh and to make it cooler Izea is giving away $1000 each week in February to the blog with the #1 RealRank (see the site for official rules). Oh and if you are worrying about a Google Page Rank Spank (like ComtechNews got) for being in PayPerPost don't worry the code is different and again for use by any and all bloggers.
What is cool about Real Rank is it is based on actual traffic and visitor activity. Unlike Alexa it tracks all visitors not just those dim enough to voluntary install the Alexa Tool Bar (spyware) into their browsers. I sware AOL users are the only thing keeping data going to Alexa.
For example below is a screen shot of the Real Rank for Comtech News covering a three month period, as you can see Google's smack on my page rank number has little effect on my visitor count.
I really hope to see a true alternative to Google PR come along. Google is just getting to damn powerful. For blogs at least Real Rank may be the way for that to happen. So if you blog, install and try out RealRank. I have done so on all my blogs and I am finding some interesting things about how they compare to each other beyond raw visitor counts and conversion rates.
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