Thank goodness! There’s finally a ranking system that reflects the real score of my blog!

I got penalized by Google in the beginning of the year because I have some sponsored posts on my blog and I lost my page rank that I worked months to acquire. Not only did that mess up my whole blog system, but it really hurt me in regards to the extra money I had been making. To a lot of people $100 or so a week isn’t a big deal, but to us it meant a lot. The weeks when Sean didn’t get paid it sometimes made the difference between making a car payment or not. That’s huge!

Now there’s Real Rank, a system that was created by using real data to calculate which blogs are getting the most traffic and have the most influence on the web, such as webpages linked to the specific blog (otherwise known as inbound and outbound links). IZEARanks ranks the top blogs in the blogosphere via actual site statistics, not an “inturprutation” of estimates. This great ranking system, IZEARanks, even has a page where you can see how your blog relates to other registered blogs in real time, and offers a graph for visual people like me who don’t really “get” numbers.

Thank goodness this system has come about! Maybe now I can get back into the paid for blogging market. I’ve missed it, because it’s such a win-win situation for everyone involved. Advertisers get exposure and bloggers get to do what they love to do. How can you beat that?