A while back, I posted about the new system to gauge blog rank available from Izea. I’ve got all of my blogs registered there, and in the past months, have seen quite a few advertisers willing to forgo pagerank in order to experiment with RealRank. Several of my blogs are at the top of the rankings, meaning that they rate highly as far as links and traffic, which translates to more opps for me. This blogs real rank is at 850 for today, which is another feature I like - ranks are updated daily, not every 3 months (or more) like pagerank.

To use RealRank, simply visit IZEARanks.com, install a snippet of code on your blog, and start getting ranked. Learn more about your traffic and how you stack up to other blogs, be they in your genre, or not. RealRank only allows blogs to be added, so you’re not competing against websites that don’t have personalized content added daily.

You can view the top 100 of all blogs on the site, or drill down into categories to see how you stack up against blogs with the same niche and focus. You’ll see that some bloggers chose to keep their stats private, while others publish them for the world to see. (Guess which one of those options I’ve chosen for my blogs?) The whole system, when used in conjunction with the PayPerPost marketplace, allows advertisers to select from blogs that are getting the traffic and pageviews they want, instead of blogs with a high pagerank assigned by Google that doesn’t equate to traffic or pageviews. Because really, what does a PR of 5 or a PR of 8 mean to the advertiser? Absolutely nothing. There’s no promise of pageviews, traffic, or great content, only the promise of a link weighted more by Google.

The more blogs added, the more weight your high rank can carry with advertisers!