Five Star Blog Again - ReviewMe Fixes My Ranking
Two days ago, I wrote a post about Technorati playing favorites with their Top 100 list. Well, Technorati is still playing favorites and refuses to add me as a Top 100 blog, even though I clearly have a Top 100 ranking. However, I’m happy to report that ReviewMe has corrected their script that detects the Technorati rank.
The last time I went to update my rank, the ReviewMe script misreported my Technorati rank at 133 instead of 63. That reduced my overall ReviewMe ranking to four stars. It also pushed me down on the blog display list because the blogs are shown by star ranking.
I emailed ReviewMe and they said they would look into the problem and fix it. Sure enough, they did just that. My ranking has been fully restored and I am once again a five star blog.
It doesn’t matter to me whether Technorati list me in their official Top 100 or not. However, it does matter that ReviewMe gets my ranking correct because that directly effects the price I can charge for a review. I fully believe that one of the reasons I get so many ReviewMe requests is because I am one of only three 5-star blogs in the entire ReviewMe network (Shoemoney and Performancing are the other two). It also helps that my review price is less than many four star blogs. 
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What do you need your Alexa rank to be to get that last 5 star ranking on ReviewMe?
Reply to this commentI think you need to be below 1,000 in order to get 5 stars. Shoemoney is at 1300 something and he still has a 4 star Alexa ranking.
Reply to this commentIf the growth you’ve experienced with your blog continues, it wont be long.
Reply to this commentYeah that would be quite an accomplishment to hit the top 1000 on Alexa. But I think you’re well on your way.
Reply to this commentwell not too many blogs have over 5 stars then lol. It’s good to hear your back to 5 stars for overall ranking.
Reply to this commentyou’re ranked 2521th at the moment. I’m sure it’d take a while before you hit the 1000 mark
Reply to this commentWith a couple of contests that should work out quite soon, I guess.
Reply to this commentWow. that’s impressive. so how much would you charge?
Reply to this commentI charge $400 for a review.
Reply to this commentLook up right corner there is a ME man wiht $400 board.
Reply to this commentI wish I had that kind of problems
Only one blog to beat - performancing. That’s gona be a fight worth to watch.
Beijinho (kiss)
Reply to this commentYou can start by fighting me. I have an alexa ranking somewhere around 500 000. That shouldn’t be to hard to beat
Reply to this commentAh ah ah… Can´t fight you, cause I all ready lost - my alexa rank is ridiculous: 6 million…
I’ll be back to this fight in, let’s say 10 years from now…
Beijinho (kiss)
Reply to this commentCheck this out to lower your Alexa. It work on my blogs/sites. All my site started in the 3.5 millions.
Improving your site ranking on Alexa
In 2 weeks, tell me if it work.
Reply to this commentSounds good
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Reply to this commentI would like to improve my Aleax rank too. Now it is around 117,000 something
My blog is on a subdomain; alexa doesn’t like that too much, it seems.
Reply to this commentactually I don’t think domain vs subdomain matters to alexa
Reply to this commentit only take about 2 months or less to reach the 500,000 mark if properly done
Reply to this commentI rank better than Performancing. The reason they are listed on top of me is because they priced themselves at $500.
Reply to this commentI thought it worked in a different way. Thanks for explaining ao reviewme works.
Beijinho (kiss)
Reply to this commentwell, john, why don’t you up your asking price as well.
Reply to this commenti’m sure it would make too much difference to people who’s got the money to get a review
I agree. You should charge whatever keeps your reviews steady and makes the most money. I’m sure people are getting more that $400 worth of value from a well crafted site.
Reply to this commentAs John pointed out earlier, I think charging less than other 4-star blogs works for him so far.
Reply to this commentAt least, the whole situation gave you something to post about
on important ranking mean for some of us
Reply to this commentgood point.
reviewme acted pretty quickly to john’s problem.
Reply to this commentJohn’s too important to ignore, I guess.
Reply to this commentgood to hear that you got your 5 stars back and you helped reviewme fix something in the process
Reply to this commentThats awesome to hear John. Technorati should fix your ranking too though. I think technorati’s algorithm is messed up because I know mine isn’t showing up correctly either.
Reply to this commentmaybe they’ve changed the rules
Reply to this commentHow would changing the rules effect the algorithm of Technorati?
Reply to this commentThey must have a whole other criteria no one else knows about.
Reply to this commentJohn, your blog is in Rank 60 but it isn’t in TOP 100 list. So weird!
Here is the screenshot that show your blog in Rank60
Reply to this commenthttp://adsense-tw.com/johnchow-Technorati.gif
I guess the situation is similar to the Digg front page thing, but we don’t know for sure
Reply to this commentyou never know for sure with all those social media algorithms…
Reply to this commentMake that 55 and not on the top 100 list!
Reply to this commentGreat job on getting that 5th star back! You deserve it. Just one more star to go
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Reply to this commenti thought 5 star is max
Reply to this commentI think MrGPT was refering to Alexa to be 5 stars everywhere
Reply to this commentYes, I was. Thanks for clearing that up for me
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Reply to this commentit is a good news.
Reply to this commentHi John Chow dot Com, , I read you everyday or so. I have reviewed your site and I look forward to my back link in Batch 90. My question today however is what are your opinions of other making money online gurus such as Entrepreneur’s Journey by Yaro and his new Blog Mastermind Program or ProBlogger.com by darrenrowse?
P.S. I am still running the Smart People Experiment on my blog.
Reply to this commentWow John, you have a 5-star ranking for EstRSS. I have around 7000 RSS subscribers, yet ReviewMe only gives me one measly little wussy star for RSS. Any ideas why this might be so? You’d think that they’d go by absolute numbers, but perhaps they extrapolate the RSS ranking from the Alexa and Technorati rankings. (That would explain it, because you’ve got me beat by a mile there!)
Reply to this commentIf you can prove to them you really have 7,000 RSS subs, they’ll give you five stars. However, your blog is PR4 and your Alexa is over 900,000. With 7,000 RSS readers, it should be much better.
Reply to this commentJohn,
How else can one prove that apart from the feedcount icon of FeedBurner, which ReveiwMe does not recognize?
My feedburner subcriber base at Telenovela Love Garden, is over 2,300 as shown by the feedcount icon, yet ReviewMe gave not a single star to my RSS est.
Frankly speaking, I believe that ReviewMe uses another paramater to measure feeds. It is their BLOGJUICE Calculator which measures ONLY your feed subscription through Bloglines, and not through other feed aggregators!
John has a high Blogjuice of 8.1 from 689 bloglines subscriber base, and not the 5,700 shown by FeedBurner. Those 689 Bloglines subscribers are what give John a 5-star RSS Est at ReviewMe.
What a strange arithmetic!
Reply to this commentUpdate: I emailed ReviewMe, and they actually got back to me within 24 hours saying that they’d adjusted my RSS figures. Interestingly, I still only have 3 stars for RSS, despite having 1000 more RSS subs than the his Maleficent Mogulness himself.
This indicates that ReviewMe is indeed not going by pure RSS figures alone, but using additional indicators to calculate the EstRSS ranking. I wonder what they are? It would be useful for podcasters to know, because most of our RSS subs come from iTunes, not from services like Bloglines.
But hey, I’m not complaining! The adjusted figures bumped me up a full star overall
Congrats to John for regaining his much-deserved 5-star ranking — the power of the dark side will not be denied!
Reply to this commentAwesome. At least we know that ReviewMe has great support
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Reply to this commentThanks for the answer, John — I’ll have to see what kind of proof they’d need. BTW, my comment link here goes to my personal guitar blog, which as you rightly point out, has nowhere near 7000 subscribers. I wasn’t talking about THAT one
Reply to this commentI can only see one or two postings for your blog each month. Which blog has the 7000 RSS subscribers?
Reply to this commentjohn only have 5700 some rsscribers, and i can’t see how you managed 7 thousand
Reply to this commentWell, I’d tell you — but I’d have to kill you…mwhahahah
The blog with 7000 (well, actually 6989 as of today’s Feedburner stats, if you want to nitpick) is a podcast with posting frequencies from once per month to once per week. The blog in my comment link here goes to my personal blog, which seems a more relevant link for posting in blog comments.
I didn’t link to my podcast for 2 reasons:
Reply to this comment1) To keep separation between my musical persona and the topic matter of my podcast
2) I felt it would be kind of spammy, given that I’m not a regular commenter here (so far, that is!).
Glad to see they fixed it for you. Perfect timing too, because I just ordered a review from this 5 star blog.
Reply to this commentLet us know how the money pays off…
Reply to this commentYou getting an iphone John? Maybe they will send one for free for you to review.
Reply to this commenti’m sure john can afford one when it’s available in a short while.
the thing is wheather john wants one phone without the conventional keypad
Reply to this commentSending one to him before it was released would be more profitable to iPhone since he would be generating more “hype” towards the iPhone.
Reply to this commentJohn usually doesn’t have to pay for sweet things like this — he gets them for free and stores them away in the garage, just like those PC parts he just happened to have lying around.
Reply to this commentCongrats on the awesome rankings. The reviews are definitely worth the price.
Reply to this commentGood luck John!
Reply to this commentGood to see that you are back in 5 star.
Congrats John.. You are the Man of 5 stars I must learn a lot from… You are really good at it!
Just joking.. Do you happen to leave in 5-star hotel?
Reply to this commentoops i mean “live” not “leave”.
Reply to this commentI must keep learning from you…
His hotel just got upgraded
Reply to this commentGlad they fixed the script!
Reply to this commentNot on a theme, but do you know, John, that your blog is third in small statistic of the most expensive blogs?
Reply to this commentReally? If that were true, I wouldn’t be surprised at all. Where did you get that info?
Reply to this commentI post it in my blog, this information is presented by ww-success.com
Reply to this commentGood news to hear John..
Reply to this commentI would love to get a copy of C&C. I have been trying to scrape up the money for that for a while.
Reply to this commentWrong post
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Reply to this commentCan’t blame the guy for trying to up his chances, yeah?
Reply to this commentI might join reviewme eventually, but my audience is so much smaller (my alexa rank is above 100,000
) I think it may be good just to wait until my audience grows more.
Reply to this commentI think you could just join and have a cheaper review croud.
also congrats to the 5 stars
Reply to this commentHow many RSS subscribers do you need to get an extra star ?
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