Now the world will know your credibility at a glance with your shiny new IMRC status icon!  Icons are earned at 2000, 3000, 5000, and 10,000 credit thresholds – and that means only the top 5% of the IMRC community currently has earned this esteemed award. 

Next to the avatar image for each comment you will now be able to see the commenter’s IMRC status icon.  The icons are also available when reviewing a member’s profile page.

Here is the status icon page with the esteemed titles earned by our top 5%: http://www.imreportcard.com/status.cgi

Here’s an example page where you can see the status icons next to comments: http://www.imreportcard.com/products/5-minute-articles

All comments, grades, and bonus credits count toward the status icon. Referral credits currently do not count toward the status icon award.

The site category with the most number of top-rated products is Article Marketing.

Surprised?  I might do a top 25 article marketing section since those seem to be so popular, and there appear to be several great options for learning more.

The top-rated article marketing sites (with links to their review pages so you can read all about what the IMRC community thinks) are:

4-day Money Making Blueprint (220 grades, A- average)
Big Money Writing Little Books (118 grades, A- average)
Article Marketing Domination (102 grades, A- average)
Article Architect (76 grades, A average)
5 Minute Articles (78 grades, A- average) – THIS IS ONLY $5!!!

Article marketing isn’t for everybody, but maybe it should be! The IMRC community loves article marketing so you should too. Pick a product above and give it a shot. You have to try stuff and see what works for YOU! Always be testing something new. Speaking of testing something new . . .

Monetization tip of the week: We’ve also been tinkering with our Google AdSense for Content settings and trying out image ads as well as text ads. So far, showing images and text for a given ad unit has improved the click-thru by about 15%. If you have a website and you’re using AdSense and not showing images, you might want to test it out and see if you also get an improvement. We haven’t tried the Adsense for Search yet because most of the chatter I’ve read says you will get a higher CPC with Adsense for Content on your search result page. So – I added adsense for content on the search result page yesterday and will let you know what happens!

I’m still working on the status icons for those of you with over 2000 credits, and I have some cool images to use I hope you will like. I’m shooting for next week on that update.

Posted March 11th 2010 to IM Report Card Updates • Comments (12)