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Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

Mert — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:04:54 -0000

Thanks Andy, I am new to these blog business and it was a helpful review of you for Technorati favorites, i am also planning to use these tools after some research about most popular blogs.

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

Mert — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:04:54 -0000

Thanks Andy, I am new to these blog business and it was a helpful review of you for Technorati favorites, i am also planning to use these tools after some research about most popular blogs.

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

maurizio — Fri, 04 May 2007 06:46:28 -0000

Hi, check my Technorati Tool (and his explanatory post). I'm sure you'll find it useful to check your favorites. Feel free to blog about it :-)

(pleasepleaseplease let me know what you think about it)

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

maurizio — Fri, 04 May 2007 06:46:28 -0000

Hi, check my Technorati Tool (and his explanatory post). I'm sure you'll find it useful to check your favorites. Feel free to blog about it :-)

(pleasepleaseplease let me know what you think about it)

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

Paula Mooney — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:30:49 -0000

Thanks, Andy. I was able to easily upload my Technorati favorites RSS feed as a new page element on Blogger, and it's now pulling it my top 5 (that's the preset maximum -- I can't find out how to up this # to 10 or more in the script) most-recent Technorati favorites posts on my blog.

I hope they'll show up as a link on Technorati like yours are...

If you ever catch your most recent post being linked to my me, let me know!

Happy Weekend,
Paula

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

Paula Mooney — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:30:49 -0000

I hope they'll show up as a link on Technorati like yours are...

If you ever catch your most recent post being linked to my me, let me know!

Happy Weekend,
Paula

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

Paula Mooney — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:06:15 -0000

Thanks! Sorry I missed it...

I play around with it on Blogger.

Take care.

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

Paula Mooney — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:06:15 -0000

Thanks! Sorry I missed it...

I play around with it on Blogger.

Take care.

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

AndyBeard — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:02:46 -0000

I did answer Paula

The output is just the RSS feed taken from Technorati, which using a plugin I cache every 30 minutes.

Followed by

I don't know if Blogger can do the same with RSS, or whether it is outputted as javascript.

Maybe I will have to explore blogger a little and see how this can be achieved

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

AndyBeard — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:02:46 -0000

I did answer Paula

The output is just the RSS feed taken from Technorati, which using a plugin I cache every 30 minutes.

Followed by

I don't know if Blogger can do the same with RSS, or whether it is outputted as javascript.

Maybe I will have to explore blogger a little and see how this can be achieved

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

Paula Mooney — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:51:58 -0000

Hey Andy - You never answered my question about how you got your links to your favorites on Technorati to show in your sidebar.

Is that a WP plugin or something I can use on Blogger, too?

Did you grab that code from the Technorati tools section?

Thanks!
Paula

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

Paula Mooney — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:51:58 -0000

Hey Andy - You never answered my question about how you got your links to your favorites on Technorati to show in your sidebar.

Is that a WP plugin or something I can use on Blogger, too?

Did you grab that code from the Technorati tools section?

Thanks!
Paula

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

Billy Mac — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:38:06 -0000

Mr Beard...I'll add you to my favorites...this is a fantastic blog. Thank you.

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

Billy Mac — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:38:06 -0000

Mr Beard...I'll add you to my favorites...this is a fantastic blog. Thank you.

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

AndyBeard — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:21:05 -0000

Julian, thanks for the heads up, it was still pulling javascript from amazon s3 for TwitThis, and that was causing slow page loading.

There are a couple of rendering problems I am aware of, such as the header above the tags.

If there is something more specific I would love a little more detail.

I do check everything fairly frequently on both, but sometimes 3rd party code being pulled in messes things up.

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

AndyBeard — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:21:05 -0000

Julian, thanks for the heads up, it was still pulling javascript from amazon s3 for TwitThis, and that was causing slow page loading.

There are a couple of rendering problems I am aware of, such as the header above the tags.

If there is something more specific I would love a little more detail.

I do check everything fairly frequently on both, but sometimes 3rd party code being pulled in messes things up.

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

julian — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:54:19 -0000

Hi Andy,

You site doesn't seem to work very well in IE7 i would check it out.

Julian

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

julian — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:54:19 -0000

Hi Andy,

You site doesn't seem to work very well in IE7 i would check it out.

Julian

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

Bri — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 01:26:11 -0000

I always wondered if you would get significant traffic from Technorati if you were in the top 100. I'm pretty amazed that the answer is no.

It just seems like that would be the first place a lot of people would go when they get started with Technorati.

I suppose that it could be different for the top 10, because after that the list gets overwhelming, and not too many people like to scroll online anyway.

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

Bri — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 01:26:11 -0000

I always wondered if you would get significant traffic from Technorati if you were in the top 100. I'm pretty amazed that the answer is no.

It just seems like that would be the first place a lot of people would go when they get started with Technorati.

I suppose that it could be different for the top 10, because after that the list gets overwhelming, and not too many people like to scroll online anyway.

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

AndyBeard — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:02:43 -0000

As I have only just hit the top100 traffic from it is non existant, though I have noticed referrals from technorati.com quite a bit recently, 8 today, and that was from the root domain.

Maybe somehow I get cycled more on the images there, or maybe it is people actually seeing posts among their favorites when they visit Technorati. There are quite a few people I have exchanged with who probably don't use a feed reader, but do visit Technorati.

I feel I am doing well on longevity in the Google Blogsearch results.

Here is one example, lots of people talked about Blogads

http://blogsearch.google.co...

I haven't got the benefit of domain age or lots of incoming links, but the only sites ranking above me are WTC, Techcrunch and John Chow.

It is actually rare to see John rank above me on things we have both written about in Blogsearch.

Another lesser example is Volusion
http://blogsearch.google.co...

Now this could be just the benefit of tagging that I outrank both Yaro and John or some other factor such as repeat referrals to my reviews in more recent posts.

Rest assured if I gain some noticeable benefit I will report it. 8 visitors from a single source is still quite visible in my stats, especially from the root domain.

It is all fun and games...

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

AndyBeard — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:02:43 -0000

As I have only just hit the top100 traffic from it is non existant, though I have noticed referrals from technorati.com quite a bit recently, 8 today, and that was from the root domain.

I feel I am doing well on longevity in the Google Blogsearch results.

Here is one example, lots of people talked about Blogads

http://blogsearch.google.co...

I haven't got the benefit of domain age or lots of incoming links, but the only sites ranking above me are WTC, Techcrunch and John Chow.

It is actually rare to see John rank above me on things we have both written about in Blogsearch.

Another lesser example is Volusion
http://blogsearch.google.co...

Now this could be just the benefit of tagging that I outrank both Yaro and John or some other factor such as repeat referrals to my reviews in more recent posts.

Rest assured if I gain some noticeable benefit I will report it. 8 visitors from a single source is still quite visible in my stats, especially from the root domain.

It is all fun and games...

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

Cvos SEO — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:41:33 -0000

Andy, I understand every blogger has their own style and this makes for some great reading.

Personally I would be very interested in more information about the effects being listed in technorati has on your blog, and more specific details about stats, traffic and referrals.

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

Cvos SEO — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:41:33 -0000

Andy, I understand every blogger has their own style and this makes for some great reading.

Personally I would be very interested in more information about the effects being listed in technorati has on your blog, and more specific details about stats, traffic and referrals.

Re: Goal Setting & Technorati 100

AndyBeard — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:49:10 -0000

Cvos I do get your point about trying to stick to a single subject in a post, although in the case of a meme like this, if I have already provided the answers in depth, creating short versions might not be the ideal scenario.
If someone has already read the previous content, they can skip it, if they missed it, then it highlights something useful for them to read. That is particularly important for content that takes a long time to prepare, such as my answer to "Why do I blog". If I get an opportunity to link to it, those interested will benefit.

With the Technorati favorites there is a difference between how I am trying to achieve it, and maybe someone asking their vast readership to favorite them.
Most people adding me to their favorites are doing it because I have explained the possible win/win scenario for doing it.

One of the other things I am achieving with this blog is "carving niches", and then bridging them. If I was providing the same content in the same style as everyone else, I might have more readers, but I wouldn't have the same quality of readership.