Fourteen thousand advertisers to ignore Google’s Page Rank?
This will obviously cause quite a stir in the blogging world. Reading through the Izea townhall meeting transcript a few statements stuck in my mind as encouraging for everyone involved. First, Izea is a fast moving target not easily thrown off course by Google’s attempt at censoring bloggers through PR (pagerank) deletion (Google Smacking). Second, I got the impression Izea does listen to feedback from both the Posties and the advertisers. Speaking of advertisers there are now over fourteen thousand using the Izea platform. WOW.
Now for the good news. But before I go there I wanted to make a point of expressing my opinion that the honorable FTC Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras, seen here helping Jones Day celebrate their 20th year anniversary, doesn’t understand the power of Google and the possible danger posed by their acquisition of Double Click. OK, with that out of the way everyone should know that Izea will be dumping Google’s Page Rank - yeah boy - and that Social Spark is on track. Maybe not tomorrow, but it did like we’ll see it this calendar year.
*this is an evolving article - updates through the day with announcements from Izea
Tags: Google PR, Izea, IzeaRanks, RealRanks, Ted Murphy
January 25th, 2008 at 7:27 am #macewan
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January 27th, 2008 at 6:31 pm #Michael
One bad thing about taking out Google PR is that competitions among bloggers would be fierce, and it would be quite difficult for people like myself to take on an Opp because of their availability. Also, if they focus only on traffic, small blogs would die out eventually.
This would be another case of the “rich getting richer.”
February 15th, 2008 at 1:40 pm #macewan
Now that the bar is even lower with no pr and only a months worth of postings it’s easy to see PayPerPost for what they are becoming. A splog network.