SocialSpark and RealRank Traffic Continue To Plummet

8 December, 2009 - 11:00 AM - 5 Comments

Even with tweaking my website to try and improve page load times under the suggestion of IZEA my RealRank plummets as its inaccurate count of my blog traffic skydives into the abyss. Meanwhile Google Analytics shows the same consistent traffic day after day. This is no longer just a cosmetic badge thing, my SocialSpark profile for my blog is taking fast as a result of IzeaRanks not accurately tracking my blogs visits and viewership.

This is hurting my blog standing in SocialSpark and actually is going to end up costing me money in lost opportunities on the IZEA network, I could lose a couple of hundred bucks this month from this glitch in the analytics tracking of IZEARanks.

I am still having some performance issues with the pageload times of my blog, but I was able to tweak my javascript and trim external script calls enough to decrease my pageload time by about 40% which should have been more than sufficient to allow the ITK Tool script to track visitor analytics properly.

At some point in the future I may have to look at hiring Web Developers not only to tweak and tune my blog, but possibly to design me a new blog theme that really fits what I am looking to do with Dragonblogger.com in the future.

For now, I can only tune and tweak trying to optimize my site as much as possible and hope that IZEA can fix this IZEARanks issue as quickly as possible so my blog can skyrocket back up in the rankings to qualify for SocialSpark opportunities.

I wonder if the WP-SuperCache plug-in interferes with the ITK Tools collecting analytics? It shouldn’t since even cached pages should execute the javascript and make the call to report the analytics, and it doesn’t interfere with GA analytics.

-Dragon Blogger

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Written by Justin Germino (1514 Articles Published)

Working in the IT Industry for over 10 years and specializing in web based technologies. Dragon Blogger has unique insights and opinions to how the internet and web technology works. An Avid movie fan, video game fan and fan of trying anything and everything new.

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Bellesouth

I'm curious about the realrank as well. It seems like I'm always just on the cusp of being available to take opportunities - but never quite there. Just keep writing, I guess.
.-= read BellesouthÂ´s article about New Facebook Cause: Drug Testing for Welfare recipients!!! =-.

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dragonblogger

Keep writing and keep promoting your articles on social networks like twitter, facebook, digg..etc. Sometimes contests and giving away something can spurn a boost in visitors.

cadilacjax

This is interesting Justin, I hadn't read this post of yours before, but today I...well for the past month actually I've noticed that if I check my numbers on Alexa and compare to blogs profile numbers on Social Spark I usually see a huge difference. Now back to today.. I was wondering if I was the only one who's numbers where different..(like I'm unique..lol.) but I see that it is not only me. I also noticed that there numbers on Alexa are tanking badly over the last month and January's numbers for them are really dropping...Hmmmm interesting. But I guess it's like any site.. It has it's ups and downs. I think one of the things is folks are a little discouraged with the blogroll bit that they have pushed. They claim the advertisers choose and yeah they do if they have time but really it's Izea/socialspark who chooses... A LOT of unfairness in my opinion...jus sayin

Michael Aulia @Technology and Reviews

Hmm I'm using WP SuperCache as well but so far I haven't noticed any anomalies with the IZEARanks.. unless if I'm not aware of it@Technology
and ReviewsÂ´s last blog ..Razer Imperator Unboxings =-.

The issue was resolved, if you got the ITK code from the old PayPerPost version 3 system, it broke when IZEA rolled out InPostLinks, you had to use the ITK script from SocialSpark instead.