I removed Money crasher badge | Bloggers Lair | Yakezie Forums

Finally I made up my mind and removed the badge I have had enough. Sam pointed out this a couple of months ago and finally I realised, unless you are have a rank to brag about ther's no point in letting readers know that there are numerous others ahead of me.

While Wisebread has me at 148, MC somehow demoted me to 461th position. I so want to check their formula on rank (along with Technorati's). 

I know someone or other from MC would certainly look in to this thread. If you are one of them please explain how i can go from 261 to 461 in one week? And what are you doing to fix this. Also please explain how no number in a particular criteria gets highest point. Example, no RSS reader get higher point than having 2000 readers.

If you are giving rank to my blog, you should justify this or else remove me from your listing. I do urge fellow Yakezies to remove MC badge if you are unhappy with their ranking

Post edited 8:38 pm – November 20, 2011 by Watson Inc

I agree. Their algorithm includes a lot of metrics. You would have to look at each one for deviations to account of the new aggregate score. In the last two weeks, mine got better by about 100.

More broadly, you bring up an interesting point about being selective in what badges you display.

I was under the impression that N/A was just not counted. For example, I thought the N/A for subscribers meant if you didn't display subscribers you would be penalized over someone who even had as few as 5 subscribers displayed, but I received the following response from Andrew last year:

"For sites that don't have subscriber data, we actually throw out the
variable entirely – so you're not necessarily penalized if you don't use
Feedburner for example."

If they follow this same process for other variables, then I'm not sure that this explains your changed rank.

I just forwarded this thread to Andrew, so that he can hopefully address these concerns directly as time allows.

Cheers!

I dropped from 351-422 in a week.. weird especially since my traffic has increase and my alexa score and page rank improved

TFB is seeing quality sites selling for 36-48x monthly income.  $25k might be underselling.  I don't think we'd sell for that! :)

The College Investor said:

My Alexa is also showing NA now.  On a positive note, my SEMRush site value is $25,325!  I'm taking offers! j/k

Hit submit too early, your actual real estate don't benefit businesses. But your web real estate can, and that's the major differentiating factor.

BTW while doing some research on compete ranking today I discovered GRS gets 230K unique visitors a month. JD's e-property price is perhaps in the range of million dollars, if not multi-million..

Any one know about a web property appraiser? This could be very interesting discussion.

I agree. I intentionally don't list some metrics, and the predictions are wildly inaccurate and in the wrong direction :(

Unless Im in the top 100 I really have no desire to post to post the badge…nobody cares that im ranked 260 lol.  I am surprised by how many people are willing to take up blog real estate with a badge stating such low rankings.