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Most bloggers check often to see what their Google PR, Alexa and IZEARanks are, and I didn’t want to have to keep visiting other sites every day or so to see what my rankings were that day, also when someone visits your site, if they have an inkling to advertise on your site you may want to display your rank badges right up front saving the potential customer from having to do the legwork themselves.

So I saw some rank badges by RankWidget, I liked that they provided an Alexa Badge, a Google PR Badge and a Technorati Badge, but when I installed the badge code below.  I visited my site and was slaughtered by 3 pop-up ads that showed up.  This mortified me, and I don’t want pop-ups that people have to click just to see my site.

I removed the code for the RankWidget badges and the pop-ups are removed.  What good are the badges if they cream you with popups?  Doesn’t the fact that the badge advertises rankwidget do enough for them, why do they have to infect your site?

So, the best few non-spam widgets I have found I finally displayed on my sidebar.

The Alexa one I retrieved from Widgetbox
The Google PR One I retrieved from Design Brigade
The Technorati one I retrieved from Technorati itself.

My next post will be to talk about my goals for dragonblogger.com for the month of September.

-Dragon Blogger

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