IzeaRanks.com the site that monitors your web site visitor traffic and provides your site with a RealRank is fickle, you can move up and down the numbers quite dramatically if you have a high fluctuation in visitors to your blog. This is the first time that my blog has held <200 RealRank for a full week and for at least the last 7 days my blog is within the top 200 blogs listed on IzeaRanks.com based on traffic. Considering there are more than 10,000 blogs on IZEARanks (every blog added to SocialSpark must have the ITK tool and therefore be listed in the realrank system) this means my blog is one of top 200 blogs on SocialSpark based on unique visitors per day.

DragonBlogger.com continues to gradually work its way up to being the technology and entertainment portal I am envisioning, because 35% of my traffic comes for NBC Heroes reviews, and the other 65% is for my blogging, twitter or technology articles. Eventually I plan to turn my blog into a magazine style theme, but will want to hire someone to design a custom theme, as I have something in mind and have not found a template that fits my vision for the site yet.

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So I had set my goals for October 2008 and posted them previously, here is a reprint of my goals for October 2008 vs what I actually achieved.

Keep my Blog < 1000 IzeaRank

I have met this goal and in fact my blog has been in the 300 range for the entire month.

Keep my Blog < 500,000 Alexa Rank\

Again, my 3 month average is in the 200,000 range and this is because my blog only existed for 2 months.  I am the 100,000 range weekly average.

20 new Back Links

I only managed to achieve 11 new back links for the month of October for this blog.

Average Unique Visits to 200 consistently, this means I am shooting for 6000 Visits for the month on GA

I have averaged 318 unique visitors per day and hit 8095 unique visits for the month.

Dragon Blogger try to earn $100

I have made a total of $110 in payments for the month of October, not pending payments but actual paypal received payments.  ($17.50 from SocialSpark, $5 from PayPerPost, $87.50 from PayU2Blog)

So I had exceeded all of my goals except the number of back links, in the spirit of adjusting my goals I will set my November goals for reasonable growth.  I have seen my blog taper off quite a bit so I won’t be unrealistic.  Note each of my blogs has their own goals, and my other blogs have their own goals and income.  My personal site Justin Germino has actually started making some money as well.

• Goals for Dragonblogger.com for November 2008.

• 10 New Back Links

• GA Visits Keep Average 320 per day / 9,000 Unique for the Month

• Try to earn at least $100.00 for DragonBlogger.com

• RealRank (Izea Rank stays < 400)

• Alexa Rank below 200,000

Wish me luck in meeting my blog goals.

-Dragon Blogger

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I love browsing my peers and one of the latest things I have found was from JoeTech.com.  He created an IzeaRank badge for your site.  It is very compressed in size compared to the one you get from IzeaRanks and it updates faster and shows your latest rating quicker than the IzeaRank badge.

Here is what mine looks like, I am replacing it on all 3 of my blogs.

If you want to use this IZEARanks Badge from JoeTech.com then download it and leave Joe a comment on how you like using it.

Joe, if you can create the equivalent for a PageRank, AlexaRank…etc maybe 1 Badge that can cluster all your ranks that would be great.

This is the same JoeTech.com that runs the fun Entrecard Slot Machine, and the Link AD Slot Machine as well.

The Entrecard Slot Machine you visit the page and you could win up to 1000 Entrecards randomly, I often win 2 EC’s and I don’t bother to claim EC’s unless my prize is greater than 100 EC’s, as I am not sure how Joe gets around the 1000 per week EC transfer limit now.

The AD Link Generator will create a local link on JoeTech website back to your site, it automatically creates the link for you when you win, just by putting in your web site name and link.

Joe, would be nice if you didn’t use the “Nofollow” since the link created doesn’t show up in Google WebMasterTools or Blogsearch.  The link would be worth more and encourage more people to use it if it was a “indexable link”.

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First off, I have only been blogging for about 40 days now and I have heard other people rant about the Google Pagerank instability and having been “hit” by Google Pagerank.  I don’t believe how yesterday and for the last two weeks my blogs was a PR2 and then today bam I am now slammed with a PR0.  I didn’t convert my site from http://dragonblogger.com to http://www.dragonblogger.com, my backlinks, and all external links are growing and not shrinking.

My IZEARank is <400, my Alexa rank is 300,000 3 month average and <150,000 1 week average.  So what gives, how does something like this happen?

The bad thing is now my blog won’t qualify for many of the opps that require PR2 or above, so my blog goals just got a lot harder to achieve.

So, go ahead my fellow bloggers, rant here about your Google Pagerank story.  Who else has been burned?

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