Technorati ranking system
I’ve not been blogging for long at all. If you actually make it to my blog’s footer (a point I’ll be picking up on thanks to your great design feedback) you’ll notice that my monthly article archives only stretch back to October of last year.
Whether or not this is actually worth posting about is something you might have a better idea about. Either it’s of no interest whatsoever, or perhaps my ranking is so low that it doesn’t even merit a second glance. Regardless, I just returned back to Edinburgh, where I live, from a three day break in Northern Ireland (where I went for a Dave Matthews gig and to visit my family). Upon my re-connection with the web I checked my Technorati ranking, only to see that it had broken the 20,000 mark for the first time.
You’ll notice above that my current ranking is 19,023, with 350 links here coming from 183 other blogs. A question I wonder about is why have only 3 members have made my blog a Technorati favourite? The answer, on the face of it, is quite simple: I don’t invite people to ‘add my blog to your Technorati favourites‘. Now I could have a little green Technorati icon near the top of my blog’s homepage, asking you to click on it. Many blogs do, such as those here and here, and I know that Ben and Darren get a high number of daily visits.
Should I include a request on my own blog to let others add me to their Technorati favourites?
I haven’t already because I don’t like to ask things of you, my readers, except for the few questions I pose inside my actual articles where I value your feedback. I don’t like to clutter my blog with anything other than content. There are too many blogs that are rammed full of advertising and it puts me off visiting them again. I suppose it all depends on the goal of your blog / website.
How much do you value the Technorati ranking system?
At the very least it provides me with some interesting stats (such as those above), and at the very most it adds to my blog’s traffic when people search Technorati for content similar to my own.
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I am totally with you on the cluttered with advertising, junked up sidebars. I can’t stand a cluttered-looking blog. However, I do think a few, carefully chosen items are not a bad thing, particularly if you put them below the fold. I also think there’s a difference between asking things of readers and just making it easier for them to do something they might have done anyway.
I don’t really think adding it will be all that bad. It will be like the bookmarking links at the bottom of your posts and as Randa said, it will make it easier for people to people who would have liked to add you to their technorati favourites anyway.
Thanks for the opinion Tolumi.
Don’t think it will hurt, especially if it’s out of the way. The things that annoy me most on blogs are huge audio/visual widgets that slow loading down to a crawl. Or start playing some awful music, and you can’t find the off switch….
Nobody seems to use the Technorati favorite thing - I don’t know why.
My speakers are on pretty much all the time, and it’s not good to be greeted by some thumping hardcore techno without warning (thankfully that’s only happened a couple of times).
Two buttons I want to see on any blog, because they make my life easier: Technorati add, and a feedburner link that makes it easy to add a feed to my google reader, flock sidebar, or wherever else I want to hold things.
If you enjoy the technorati stats, try http://www.seomoz.org/page-strength/www.davidairey.com for an alternative - 3.5/10 is pretty good.
Running a business, this is certainly an issue I face as well. I blog and on the same site I also promote the details of my business. I mostly serve nonbloggers at this point - though they very often become bloggers as we work together.
There’s really a need for businesses to have a clear, attractive, uncluttered site - like yours.
I like Technorati. I, too, am a newish blogger and I like seeing who is linking to me.
I have no one favoriting me right now. ~Sigh, although my rank is reasonably decent. I think I am going to figure out how to do that Technorati little link, too.
What do you think of technorati tags?
Dawud, I think there’s going to be more and more business for you in the blogging arena. You certainly know what you’re talking about and the information on your own blog is a great help.
Maryam, I used to show Technorati tags in my early posts. To be honest with you I didn’t enjoy cluttering the foot of my blog articles with a list of tags that lead the reader away to another website. You could argue here that the tags offer up valid and relevant information, and if I’m wrong in this case I’d gladly eat my hat for the right info. Thing is, having followed the tags I was using I found a lot of splogs (or spam blogs) - ones that crawl other people’s blogs and regurgitate the info exactly.
I’m getting more involved with Technorati though, as I can fully understand the value of having a ranking in the top 500 or so.
Regardless of whether the tags are a good idea or not, I find that I have plenty of ‘footer’ links with my Stumble, Digg, Del.icio.us and Subscribe.
Just wanted to let you know that after my John Chow article on my blog, my rank jumped from the 200,000 range to the 100,000 range.
So it seems to be a worthwhile practice to increase your Technorati ranking.
Thanks David. I’m certainly not struggling for web design clients, in fact I usually have a waiting list. Yet most people don’t know what I really do…which is help my clients go from where they are to where they want to be through their websites and blogs. Basically, I’m a business problem solver who consults, coaches and educates my clients in the areas that need help for their businesses to succeed.
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David.. I’m pretty sure we traded Technorati faves.. but do forgive me if I’m wrong.. if we did, thanks for visiting my blog and participating in the exchange.
I personally like blogs who put up a Technorati faves button because it makes favoriting so much easier.. :)
I have just broken the 100,000 barrier today 1.28am, I mean yesterday. When I broke it the ranking was 98,081. Just after midnight it went down to 98,234. Still within that 100,000 bracket. I have not been blogging all that long, and have been unable to find the original WTF where somebody posted about how excited he was having achieved this. I now feel the same kind of excitement and even celebrated by opening a bottle of champagne. I am afraid I don’t really understand how the system operates. I only know that I started with a ranking and give or take a few little drops it has steadily increased until I broke the 100,000 target.
How does Technorati work out the ranking system? Is it purely the amount of links to my blog? Or, does it also rate visitor traffic? And, what about the quality of the posts?