Comments on: Technorati ranking system

By: jailhouselawyer

jailhouselawyer — Tue, 01 May 2007 00:39:11 +0000

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?

By: Maki :: Dosh Dosh

Maki :: Dosh Dosh — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:03:59 +0000

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.. :)

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By: David Airey

David Airey — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:39:00 +0000

Thanks for the info Jen. I’ve been spending a little time reading articles on John Chow’s blog.

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:19:11 +0000

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.

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:59:57 +0000

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.

By: David Airey

David Airey — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:46:55 +0000

Hey Steve, that’s an interesting collection of stats. Thanks for taking the time to run my site through their system. :)

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.

By: Maryam in Marrakech

Maryam in Marrakech — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:25:52 +0000

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?

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:23:17 +0000

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.

By: Steve Whitlam

Steve Whitlam — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:10:36 +0000

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.