Whether a blogger writes for fun, or specifically to make money online, there is no question that a bloggers ranking is important. Its how advertisers gauge how much they are willing to pay for advertising, or whether to purchase advertising with you at all. If you aren’t after money, then rankings allow users to stroke their egos a little bit, or at a minimum will at least let the blogger know that their content is being read/found.

If you are proud of your blogs rankings, why not show the world? ShowOffRankings is a website that provides you with the code needed to easily display your Google PageRank, Alexa Ranking, Compete Ranking, and Technorati Authority in small little unobtrusive boxes somewhere on your blog (most likely somewhere in the sidebar). You will then be given 3 options to display your rankings. They are vertical, horizontal, and in a square.

Show Off Rankings

One interesting thing to consider is whether you would like to use this to replace the Alexa widget that has become popular among bloggers. It is much smaller and certainly looks much better than the big widget that many currently use, and it would work the same if it pings Alexa directly to pull the score.

[via Shankri-La]