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RealRank: a ‘real’ alternative to PageRank?

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Many of the Payperpost bloggers are now shouting about their REALRankings that went live today. In fact, I was quite pleased to get my ranking at 877 (less is better)… I’ve enclosed the edited graphic to show what it looks like in my screen.

RealRank

As you can see, Payperpost is now using four or five different metrics to evaluate bloggers and their bloggings. It’s quite a challenging system to navigate. Without blowing my own trumpet (toot! toot!), the only fly in my blogging ointment is the new PR ranking that I have. It seems that for the time being Payperpost have ‘frozen’ Google rankings, before the PPP networks were zeroed last week.

I would imagine that in future developments, Google’s proprietary rank will just be skipped in favor of their own metric.

So what is RealRank?

It is a metric derived from three sources in varying proportions: 70% – unique visitors, 20% – linkings, and 10% – page views. Perhaps it is the ability to track how many unique visitors the website gets every day that should make this a much accurate measure than either Alexa or Compete.

Then the totals are ranked from highest performing to lowest performing, with each blog from the highest performing blog gaining a score in increments of 1. So the top site in 1,000 will be #1, but the bottom will be #1000.

The total number of sites will be divided into ten market ‘segments’ with the top ranking of 1 being the top ten percent of sites. This should help advertisers to target higher traffic blogs. It seems that InvestorBlogger is doing quite well as it is currently placed in the top 10% of blogs… but we won’t see accurate placement for quite a while, as the number of sites indexed is currently quite small.

The other odd thing about RealRank is that it will be updated daily at 2am, so sites are likely to see rapid swings if individual posts attract a lot of hits from Digg or StumbeUpon or elsewhere in the Social Media World. In other words, it’s dynamic, unlike Google’s PR which changes irregularly.

How will it develop?

Right now, the only websites and blogs that are included in the system are the 80,000 blogs that are listed in Payperpost’s system. Moreover, there is no external system for viewing stats except for those who are involved with Payperpost. But this will soon change as SocialSpark.com opens up early next year.

In fact, for advertisers, bloggers and so on, the new system will involve considerable similarities with Alexa, PageRank, MyBlogLog, and a lot of other social media websites COMBINED. This will be quite a development. But it will take time to work out the kinks, open the system to outsiders, and fully build out all the features that are being discussed. Here’s hoping… 😀

How DID being dependent on GOOGLE change our blogging?

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So How DID being dependent on GOOGLE change our blogging?

I’ve been pondering this for a few days, and while many of us were reluctant to give into Google’s demands on ‘no_follow’, while they could wave the PR stick over our heads, we were all of us giving into their requirements in many ways. Once you think about it, it is quite shocking:

1. Getting rid of multiple links so we could get out of THEIR secondary catalogs,
2. Adsense problems, low click throughs, and Fraud,
3. the lack of an even hand,
4. everchanging PR rankings, algorhythms, what you can do and can’t do,
5. Sitemaps
6. Removing Duplicates (except Google’s search engine was too dumb to realize they weren’t duplicates)
7. … I can go on, if you want…

I’m sure I’ll be returning to this theme in a future posting, but you can think about it anyway! How has Google changed your attitude to blogging? Do you think it’s for the better or worse?

Adsense: How to cancel your account, and get your money back…

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Many bloggers are so disillusioned with the changes in PR ranking and the changes in Adsense. To recap briefly, Google has felled many kinds of blogs PR rankings and Adsense changes are meaning that (in the short term) income is likely to go down even further. Many bloggers are now planning a boycott of Google, including me.

The TOS of many agreements allow the agreements to be cancelled by both parties without cause (I presume that means you cancel without having to provide a reason). In other words, I believe you can write them, and cancel the agreement, remove the ads and receive all monies owed to you at the time provided that the amount is greater than $10. I’d be happy to be corrected if that were not the case. So, don’t just blow that amount and don’t let Google keep it… You really can ask Google to close your Adsense account and remit your earnings. It’s in their TOS. According to their TOS, they will send you the earnings.

Quote:
In the event the Agreement is terminated, Google shall pay Your earned balance to You within approximately ninety (90) days after the end of the calendar month in which the Agreement is terminated by You (following Google’s receipt of Your written request, including by email, to terminate the Agreement) or by Google. In no event, however, shall Google make payments for any earned balance less than $10.

Also, if you have written Google to cancel your contract, let me know the results. Were you successful or not? Share your experience.

I’d be in less of a hurry to throw in the towel with Google, though. My own plan is to keep Adsense until it gets to $100 (which wouldn’t have been that long without Google messing the formats!). So yes, I know, my Adsense is still there, but that’s not for much longer! …