Comments on: IzeaRanks & RealRank – How Many Lies Can You Tell Your Advertisers?

By: Slevi

Slevi — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:14:19 +0000

In the end it doesn’t matter in my opinion on how many different features there’ll be for advertisers to look at when it comes to how much traffic a site might be receiving, it’s all pretty much useless data anyways.

The entire idea of izearanks in example is nice, but in the end with autobrowsers and such the entire idea can be put to waste again as well since those might easily add up (unique) pageviews to the blogs just to get ranked higher.

You’ll get additions added against the usage of such systems in their ToS and suddenly things like blogmad and whatever more traffic exchanger systems quite a lot of people still use can’t be used anymore.

Gets rid of some of the competition though in the ranks, but on the other hand it’s just one of the potential issues with a system like realrank. In return yet another ranking system will be designed, it’ll be outsmarted and the circle goes around once more.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:18:11 +0000

In my eyes Ted Murphy brought hope back to Izea/PPP by announcing at the ITM that Google’s PR was to be dropped from SS & PPP.

By: Katy

Katy — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:33:17 +0000

To to add in, I also requested reconsideration from Google with my PPP script still installed. I only placed the no follow tag on sponsored links. Additionally, I removed a lot of the “spam looking” posts that I made for PayU2Blog.

Two weeks after my request, my PageRank was restored to my previous 3.

By: Little Guy Network

Little Guy Network — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:32:00 +0000

Very good post thanks for sharing

By: My 2 Cents | Blogging with Cents

My 2 Cents | Blogging with Cents — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:54:16 +0000

[...] IzeaRank and RealRank……..you decide. [...]

By: Lisa J. Stewart- Big Foot Web Marketing

Lisa J. Stewart- Big Foot Web Marketing — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:16:58 +0000

Thanks again for the great post Andy. Manipulating data for advertiser’s is not a new game :-).
I don’t know how you can get a totally honest and open “report” of rankings/relevance that are unbiased, untainted and are widely accepted. Google is the closest thing available but they become less credible because they have something to gain from rankings i.e. directly profit from a sites ranking or lack thereof.
Is the Internet to vast to come up with standardized “rankings” and who will pay for it?

By: The Fate of Tyrlon and other Dubious Things » Blog Archive » Quick RealRank Update

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:58:44 +0000

[...] he wrote a pretty extensive article comparing some various tracking measures, you can find it here.Â I think he comes to the same overall conclusion that I did, new ranking stats don’t matter [...]

By: Ruchir

Ruchir — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:09:37 +0000

If you have an advertising sales page on your blog, have no doubt that advertisers will start to expect the availability of real statistics, not something you quote from AWStats.
AWStats typically reports around 6x as many page views compared to javascript based tracking on my blog, and quite a few more unique visitors.

Actually Andy, javascript based tracking reports much less visitors than real. The stats from awstats might appear a big inflated if you compare it with the stats from, let’s say Google Analytics but in reality Awstats is far more accurate than Analytics. The reason: many people in your niche have ad blockers installed. I have ABP installed in Firefox and use it if I use my dialup. And here’s the thing: ad blockers not only disable ads, they can stop tracking scripts from loading, which means the stats aren’t recorded for that visitor.

AWstats on the other hand is server-side and there’s no need to embed a code into your pages. So it tracks almost all of your visitors…

By: No More RSS Feed Numbers Hide and Seek | Wayne Liew Dot Com

No More RSS Feed Numbers Hide and Seek | Wayne Liew Dot Com — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:58:19 +0000

[...] remember not to cheat. The Internet is getting more transparent now with the this tool and the launch of IZEA recently.The consequences of getting on the EXPOSED!! headlines is terrible and it will be a blow [...]

By: Igor The Troll

Igor The Troll — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:42:26 +0000

Andy, little off topic, but I found something very interesting. "Matt Cutts, a key Google engineer, used to work for the National Security Agency. Google wants to hire more people with security clearances, so that they can peddle their corporate assets to the spooks in Washington. ..." The blog is down now but you get this here Regards, Igor