The Raging Tech

Get Proper Rankings for Your Blog

Google Page Rank has been king of the web for far too long. They use a “mysterious” and “magical” formula whose inner workings is only barely understood by the public. GPR also has a certain amount of manual human adjustment to weed out those that “cheat the system.” How biased or unbiased this system is has been subject of some debate among bloggers.

Now is the time for change - bloggers can take ranking back into their own hands again. Izea Inc., the company behind PayPerPost and SocialSpark and RockStartUp and firm spacebar atheists when it comes to titles, have launched IzeaRanks.com. This RealRank system is based on the actual popularity and traffic to your site, and is reserved specially for bloggers.

It’s fairly simple to install and use - just visit IzeaRanks.com and sign up, then get the code for the ITK tools (a small snippet of Javascript) that you put into your blog’s HTML code. Usually that’s somewhere inside your blog’s template. Their website has instructions on where it should go.

Once installed, the IzeaRanks RealRank system will show you how many site visitors you have per day and on average for the week and show you on a line graph how you do on a month-to-month basis. You’ll then be ranked amongst other RealRank bloggers. There are already thousands of other blogs on this system, so you don’t have to feel like your ranking is artificially inflated because of a low number of initial rankings.

Finally, show off your blog’s ranking using an IzeaRanks badge, another small snippet of code you can put in your blog’s sidebar or other location that displays your rank for bragging rights.

Stay at Home Parents: Make Money with SocialSpark

A short while back, my blog’s Google Page Rank was “spanked” - zapped to zero. This totally ruined my ability to make money with my blog - one of my major sponsored dropped out. The company that was hooking me up with sponsors, Izea Inc., now has a new site called SocialSpark, a social network centered around bloggers and potential blog sponsors, and most importantly gives us freedom from Google’s Page Rank system.

That being said, I realized today it’s a wonderful opportunity for a stay-at-home parent or pregnant mothers, or elderly people who are confined to the home. You can literally work from home, be your own boss, and if you write well enough and drive enough traffic to your site, you can earn some decent extra income.

When I was participating in PayPerPost, I made upwards of $900 in two months time. For a parent, that could mean more money for diapers, doctors, and formula, or a babysitter. As long as you can type quietly, this is something you could easily do while the kids are napping - although you may be napping yourself when they quiet down! Check out SocialSpark - still in Alpha, but you may be able to get an alpha key from someone and sign up your blog today.

SocialSpark is a great way to hook up your existing blog to an additional income stream. If you blog for fun or are trying to make it professionally, be sure and check them out. If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail their support team.