Bad Blogger
I admit I've been a bad and neglectful blogger when it comes to this blog. It has been nearly a month since I've updated here despite every intention to keep it up on a regular basis.
It's always sad when a blog is abandoned. I've seen blogs on BlogRush widgets that haven't been updated since BlogRush launched. That's not so much an honest blog, but an attempt at passive income from advertising.
I digress, because I'm not talking about other bloggers. Certainly there are very good reasons some blogs get abandoned. I had no reason for not continuing this blog. I did think of reabsorbing the articles from this blog into my personal blog.
I was not sure I could handle two blogs. Just the investment of time is something I find challenging. It's never been a lack of ideas for this blog. I have around a hundred and fifty blogs and web sites in my delicious account just waiting to be shared.
My other reason for recommiting to Window in the Web is all bundled up in Google's decision a few weeks ago to drop page rank of bloggers who were suspected of "selling links." My blogs and Chris blog were all dropped from Page Rank 2, down to zero. This whole topic has been beaten to death on the PayPerPost Forums and PPP's parent company Izea's blog.
The major problem with Google taking away Page Rank based on those paid links is that advertisers have primarily judged a blog's reach and worth by page rank. If all bloggers that are willing to sell links and write paid content are "N/A" in Google's eyes, how then, can advertisers judge a blogs relative to the rest of the Blogosphere?
The solution from the folks over at Izea is called Real Rank. The revolution in ranking blogs by actual day to day statistical data rather than using ranks assigned in secret by one company cannot be overstated. Where Google's Page Rank is heavy based on incoming links along with other non-public factors, we know exactly what Real Rank is based on:
70% weighted towards visitors per day
20% weighted towards amount of ACTIVE inbound links per day
10% weighted towards pageviews per day
This means that a blogger knows exactly where they stand and how to go about improving. That's exciting for this blogger. It's also exciting for advertisers, because they'll know how many eyeballs their dollars are getting when they get space on a blog.
What does all this have to do with my renewed dedication to this blog?
Window in the Web has always been about my love of the internet as a whole and blogs specifically. Since active links mean links that people have actually click on, I am inspired to link to keep up my vision for this blog. That vision is that my readers would go enjoy the blogs that inspire me.
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