Things I don’t like about Real Rank
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Cynthia on Feb 13, 2008 1:42 pm
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The whole page rank idea is just broken. As we all know, Google has removed the Page Rank from blogs that do paid posts. I still don’t understand why.. sure, PR is their system, and they can do with it as they please. However, quality websites can sell links, it’s our own business, and Google really can’t have any say in that. Regardless of their opinion that paid links might skew their PR system. With sites being PR0 because they sell paid links, and with sites getting PR with little or no content, the Google PR system just does not reflect the true popularity, or quality, of a website, blog or other.
Izea has come up with Real Rank, and is soon to release Social Spark. The idea is that these ranking systems don’t deal with Google at all, and mainly deal with how many unique visitors a website, mainly blogs, gets. Which sounds good…
What I don’t like about Real Rank is two things.
First, I don’t like how wildly it fluctuates on a day to day basis. One day my RR can be 2000+, and another day it can be in the 500s. I prefer the Google Page Rank in that it was stable and only updated once every three months or so.
Second, I don’t like that Real Rank is, basically, a competition between bloggers. Not everyone can be in the top 1%, or even the top 3%. The more popular blogs get the higher ranks. The less get lesser ranks. But what about good quality blogs that have good solid readership that are not getting as many unique hits? I would like to see them change that system so that if 50% of all blogs were awesome, they would all get a Real Rank of, say 9. Intead of only some of them, because maybe they get one more hit per day.
Anyway, those are my gripes. I haven’t done much for Pay Per Post in a while because my blogs do not rank very highly in their systems. And I try to focus on content than becoming popular.
*shrug*
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Personally, I’m pretty much done with Pay per post.. It started out ok, but now it’s all things I”m not intersted in blogging about.
Fuzzy Logic’s last blog post..Seriously, we fit.
The whole thing just stinks, we aren’t getting much in the way of ops either…so, what ppp companies are you working with now?
An interesting post. Of course izea (formerly PayPerPost) would come up with a ranking system that doesn’t penalize you for running paid posts. I doubt it will ever be taken seriously, but thanks for making me aware of it
Personally, I'm pretty much done with Pay per post.. It started out ok, but now it's all things I"m not intersted in blogging about. <em>Fuzzy Logic's last blog post..<a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sacredpaws/IZsb/~3...rel="nofollow">Seriously, we fit.</a></em>
The whole thing just stinks, we aren't getting much in the way of ops either…so, what ppp companies are you working with now?
An interesting post. Of course izea (formerly PayPerPost) would come up with a ranking system that doesn't penalize you for running paid posts. I doubt it will ever be taken seriously, but thanks for making me aware of it
Real Rank will never work for one reason. It will never be accurate. We’re only compared to other blogs who actually take the time to sign up. Most of the bigger blogs out there like ProBlogger and such refuse to sign up for the service because they don’t see it as a benefit to them.
Other than that, the stats that are displayed are still totally inaccurate. Even weeks after I brought it up on my blog and one of the Izea guys commented on the post, they still have yet to fix the issue. Real Rank still reports only about half of my unique visitors everyday, and no, those aren’t Stumble Upon visits either, and yes the unique hits are reported wrong for all 4 of my blogs I have in the system.
Jenn’s last blog post..Last Total Lunar Eclipse Until 2010
Real Rank will never work for one reason. It will never be accurate. We're only compared to other blogs who actually take the time to sign up. Most of the bigger blogs out there like ProBlogger and such refuse to sign up for the service because they don't see it as a benefit to them.
Other than that, the stats that are displayed are still totally inaccurate. Even weeks after I brought it up on my blog and one of the Izea guys commented on the post, they still have yet to fix the issue. Real Rank still reports only about half of my unique visitors everyday, and no, those aren't Stumble Upon visits either, and yes the unique hits are reported wrong for all 4 of my blogs I have in the system. <em>Jenn's last blog post..<a href='http://blog.everydayrandomness.net/2008/02/20/las...rel="nofollow">Last Total Lunar Eclipse Until 2010</a></em>
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