Comments on: IZEA Ranks – Terrible Blog Metric Service

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:06:05 +0000

I tried them for awhile – ranking in the 100 plus/minus range. It made zero difference to opportunities available.

Graphing their decline: http://flickr.com/photos/macewan/3064434702/

By: Sriram

Sriram — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:47:33 +0000

my rank steadily goes down daily, even if I update my blog with 2-3 posts everyday. Is there anything I can do to improve my rank???

By: affiliate marketing ideas

affiliate marketing ideas — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:07:20 +0000

They ought to respond so we know where we stand. As for me and my blogs, IZEA is not for us.

By: nickycakes

nickycakes — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:31:52 +0000

maybe they saw a trackback or something. lord knows the dude hasn’t shown up to defend himself again…

By: ProRicer86

ProRicer86 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:18:05 +0000

You must have sent a mess of traffic over to izea if they were able to track down this post so quickly.

By: nickycakes

nickycakes — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:59:49 +0000

So you’re NOT selling search and click data from users sites? It seemed pretty clear from your privacy policy that you are or at least are planning to.

By: tedmurphy

tedmurphy — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:55:34 +0000

NickyCakes,
Thank you for your feedback. This application is indeed still in Alpha and we are making revisions on a daily basis to increase performance and deal with concerns.

The code base itself is no different than hundreds of other pieces of javascript on the web in that most of them can be modified on the fly including Google Analytics, MyBlogLog and others. The providers of those services must respect their users privacy and blog ownership just as we do.

The information we track is designed to provide insight for bloggers (and the bloggers public if they choose to expose it). Our users will always have the choice to display what information they want to share.