While I was reading other blogs today, I stumbled across a nice article on Sizlopedia. As you may all remember the not-so-far past when google penalized most of the blogs that were selling links through TextLinkAds and other link selling sites. They were penalized because acts of link selling and buying were deemed to manipulate the Google Pagerank technology. Many blogs immediately halted their practice of link selling and buying in order to avoid their site being damaged too much in pagerank and in search rankings.

There is however a new alternative ranking system that has been made to counter the growth of Pagerank. It is called RealRank/IzeaRanks. Its aimed to be a ranking system for blogs and has been made to devalue pagerank in the future.

I have joined IzeaRanks but nobody can really tell right now if it will be successful or not but lets see how this ranking system goes. While it may pose some value in the future, I still doubt that it will be able to work at par with Google Pagerank. Anyways, lets see what happens.

Comment posted by Unlock iPhone
at 1/23/2008 1:02:37 PM

This is the first I’ve heard of such a thing, but I really like the idea. I think google has a little too much power at the moment as far as dictating how SEO works in general, and a legitimate competitor to PageRank could lead to some interesting results. I’m curious to see if this will pick up any steam.