I’ve had the code for IZEARanks.com installed on my blogs since the beginning, and I’ve been eagerly tracking the ebb and flow of the rankings for my various blogs. There are still kinks to be worked out, and improvements to be made, but overall, I think this “real rank” is much better than Google’s pagerank, which Google arbitrarily giveth and taketh away.

Here’s what I like about Real Rank:

• It’s a real number, based on real stats. Your traffic counts for 70% of your rank, and your inbound links account for 20%. Daily page views make up the final piece of the real rank pie, offering you a number that’s based on actual blog stats.
• Real rank is only for blogs – you’re not competing against non blogs.
• Real rank isn’t gamed as easily as Alexa can be.
• Real rank is based on REAL traffic, unlike Google’s pagerank. My main blog went from a 4, to a 5, to a 0, to a 3 with the most recent PR updates, my traffic increased. What does that say about Google’s pagerank as a measure of a blog’s worth?
• Real rank updates daily on IzeaRanks.com, and you can easily see how you stack up to other blogs, or just blogs in your genre.

Here’s a screenshot of the real rank for this blog. I’ve been holding steady all week, but if you look at my traffic for the whole month, you can see my traffic has dipped down, and really took a drop during the 3rd week of January. I was on vacation then, and not posting. It’s neat to see your rank change in response to how you’ve promoted (or not promoted) your blog.

This is huge for advertisers – when you buy based on pagerank, you really don’t know what you’re getting. That PR 7 blog could get 300 visitors a day, or 3,000. With Real Rank, you can see exactly what kind of traffic the blog you’re advertising on receives!