How to Put IzeaRanks on Your WordPress Blog
Izea is the parent company of PayPerPost and SocialSpark, websites that help you to monetize your blog by posting paid reviews and articles. Izea developed its own ranking system, IzeaRanks, to provide more accurate analytics for publishers, many of whom ran smaller blogs that were missed by larger ranking systems (Google or Alexa). To use IzeaRanks, you insert the code into your website files. If you're using WordPress, this code belongs in your theme files. However, you can only use this script on your self-hosted WordPress blogs, rather than hosted WordPress blogs, because of the restrictions of JavaScript by WordPress.
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Instructions
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Log in to your website control panel to access the file manager/webshell, or launch a file transfer protocol (FTP) program on your computer and enter your login credentials to access your host's server.
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Navigate to the folder for your current WordPress theme. Its location will vary depending upon your installation structure, but the location will be similar to "wp-content/themes/current theme" where "current theme" is the name of your theme.
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Select your "header.php" file for editing. It will either open in your specified program, if using FTP, or a browser-based editor if you are using your control panel file manager.
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Paste the IzeaRanks code after the opening "<head>" tag. Save the header file. You can close the editor if you are working with browser-based tools. Upload the saved header and overwrite the current file if using FTP.
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Tips & Warnings
You may have your WordPress theme files set to be editable directly from your dashboard. If this is the case, load your header file from the "Appearance" section of your WordPress dashboard.
If the IzeaRanks code causes your WordPress blog to run slowly, you may try placing it before the end "</body>" tag in the footer of your theme.
Your theme's header file may not be named "header.php." In this case, look for the file that contains the opening "<head>" tag.
