Town Hall Chat With Ted Murphy, IZEA CEO
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Ted Murphy, IZEA CEO, held a town hall chat with bloggers this evening. I clipped a few key points that were of interest to me (I think you can tell from the chat where I am focused), along with some Q&A from a few other […]
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IZEARanks.com is now open to the general public
Izea has opened up the latest component of what will be known as SocialSpark today by opening IZEARanks.com to the general public.
Some key points:
IZEARanks is only open to Blogs, so the ranking is relative to other blogs.
Realrank is at the core of IZEARanks, and the algorithm is public knowledge and can be found at the […]
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Blog traffic: A review of a mini-blog-storm
YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet=YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet||{};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet[’lw_1197558544_0′]={”text”:”Google”,”weight”:0.25,”type”:[”shortcuts:/us/instance/organization/company/company_name”,”shortcuts:/us/instance/organization/domain”],”category”:[”ORGANIZATION”],”metaData”:[{”canonicalName”:”Google Inc.”,”domain_name”:”Google”,”domain_url”:”http://www.google.com/”,”exchange”:”NMS”,”symbol”:”GOOG”},{”canonicalName”:”Google Inc.”,”domain_name”:”Google”,”domain_url”: rel=”nofollow” “http://www.google.com/”,”exchange”:”NMS”,”symbol”:”GOOG”}],”clientMetaData”:{”embeds”:”ysc_embed_lw_1197558544_0:financeModule”,”disabled”:true}};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet[’lw_1197558544_1′]={”text”:”Lynyrd Skynyrd”,”weight”:0.96084,”type”:[”shortcuts:/us/instance/organization/music_group”],”category”:[”ORGANIZATION”]};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet[’lw_1197558544_2′]={”text”:”Tampa”,”weight”:0.25,”type”:[”shortcuts:/us/instance/place/destination”,”shortcuts:/us/instance/place/us/town”],”category”:[”PLACE”],”metaData”:{”geoArea”:”462.152″,”geoCountry”:”United States”,”geoCounty”:”Hillsborough”,”geoIsoCountryCode”:”US”,”geoLocation”:”(-82.45929, 27.946501)”,”geoName”:”Tampa”,”geoPlaceType”:”Town”,”geoState”:”Florida”},”clientMetaData”:{”embeds”:”ysc_embed_lw_1197558544_2:mapsModule”,”disabled”:true}};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet[’lw_1197558544_3′]={”text”:”Wikipedia”,”weight”:0.503502,”type”:[”shortcuts:/us/tag/news/organization”],”category”:[”ORGANIZATION”]};Blogstorms are relative. If you normally get a dozen visitors, the first time you get 200 in a day might be exciting. If you normally get 10,000 visitors in a day, 250,000 is where you might say, “cool!”. I got to experience my first bonafide blogstorm last week, […]
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Boosting RSS Subscribers: One Unethical Method & One Great Method
Shortly after publishing my post about RealRank, Ted Murphy of Izea was kind enough to drop by and comment.
Damn, that man’s alerts work fast!
I argued that the number of RSS subscribers should be included in any metric that is being utilized to describe “Reach” or “Influence”. Ted countered that they are working on how to […]
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My Problem With RealRank
Disclosure: As of this writing, I have blogs ranked 736, 2648, 3283 in RealRank.
By now, anyone reading this post is interested enough in such matters that they already know what RealRank is, and why Izea/PPP has developed it. So, I won’t regurgitate too much.
The formula for RealRank is 70% traffic, 20% incoming links, and 10% […]
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PageRank vs. RealRank vs. Something Else?
So, I’ve been mute the past few days with regard to the latest monopolistic business practice by Google. To be honest, I was stunned that Google moved so dramatically against such a narrow segment of the blogosphere, ignoring the A-listers and their bogus “thanks to our sponsors” posts that provides SEO benefits to paying advertisers. […]
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