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Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

Bodybuilding Forum — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:31:14 -0000

I didn't even know it was possible to get banned from Technorati. Thanks for the heads up.

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

Bodybuilding Forum — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:31:14 -0000

I didn't even know it was possible to get banned from Technorati. Thanks for the heads up.

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

OOM — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:13:11 -0000

Seems we have nothing to worry about; not that we would be on Technorati top 100 or even 10000 :). That is good news for us. But bad for others.

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

OOM — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:13:11 -0000

Seems we have nothing to worry about; not that we would be on Technorati top 100 or even 10000 :). That is good news for us. But bad for others.

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

AndyBeard — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:10:28 -0000

Lord Matt, that is being a little cheap, but yes.

Ada, sorry for the slow response, this one slipped me by.

I wrote about it in "How to gain links"

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

AndyBeard — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:10:28 -0000

Lord Matt, that is being a little cheap, but yes.

Ada, sorry for the slow response, this one slipped me by.

I wrote about it in "How to gain links"

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

Lord Matt — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:55:12 -0000

would a subdomain work?

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

Lord Matt — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:55:12 -0000

would a subdomain work?

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

Ada — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:30:14 -0000

Hiya. Sorry to go off on a tangent, but how do you get that "if you liked this post link to it" box at the end of each post? Reply greatly appreciated.

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

Ada — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:30:14 -0000

Hiya. Sorry to go off on a tangent, but how do you get that "if you liked this post link to it" box at the end of each post? Reply greatly appreciated.

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

AndyBeard — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:23:21 -0000

Well in this article we are effectively taking advantage of the fact that they don't support a 301 to try to avoid being banned.

In your case unfortunately you will lose those links in Technorati.

The 301 redirect is good for the major search engines such as Google.

One thing you have to remember is that Technorati looks for links within 6 months so the priority should always be to build up your sources of links (subscribers/linkerati) and not short term linking strategies.

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

AndyBeard — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:23:21 -0000

Well in this article we are effectively taking advantage of the fact that they don't support a 301 to try to avoid being banned.

In your case unfortunately you will lose those links in Technorati.

The 301 redirect is good for the major search engines such as Google.

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

Coata — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:08:44 -0000

Dear Andy,

I have just bought a new domain name and created a 301 redirect in my old domain to direct existing traffic to this new domain. I have also imported all my old articles to this new domain.

Any suggestions on the best way to get technorati to point towards this new domain? Will all my backlinks be lost this way?

I have painstakenly built up more than 200 links to the old domain.

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

Coata — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:08:44 -0000

Dear Andy,

I have just bought a new domain name and created a 301 redirect in my old domain to direct existing traffic to this new domain. I have also imported all my old articles to this new domain.

Any suggestions on the best way to get technorati to point towards this new domain? Will all my backlinks be lost this way?

I have painstakenly built up more than 200 links to the old domain.

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

lucia — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:38:36 -0000

Interesting advice. I need to think about this since I wrote two new plugins. I created a pulldown menu to permit the user to elect to run a link to my site in the footer, but now I'll need to consider the redirect option. (It's not a big deal yet. I think two people have installed the Kontera Control plugin, so at most, that plugin give me two links!)

BTW, on the johnchow.com issue: John Chow not only lost his google rank for "make money on line" but he lost his google rank for "John Chow" and johnchow.com

He's confident he'll reclaim his rank, but, well, who knows? :)

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

lucia — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:38:36 -0000

BTW, on the johnchow.com issue: John Chow not only lost his google rank for "make money on line" but he lost his google rank for "John Chow" and johnchow.com

He's confident he'll reclaim his rank, but, well, who knows? :)

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

historymike — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:39:48 -0000

I used to be an enthusiastic Technorati user, but I find that they send little traffic my way (maybe 15-20 visitors to my main site, which averages 300-500 uniques a day).

One of the things that irritates me about Technorati's new system is that they count only one link per individual blogs. Thus, if my material gets linked a few times a month from a given site (which happens - my regular readers are pretty decent like that), I only get credit for one link per six-month period.

Thus, my current "authority" of 170 (representing 170 different Technorati-recognized sites linking to my blog) is dwarfed by the 7,000 external links to my site that Google sees.

As far as gaming Technorati: Linkfarming would be technique #1, while the old "create a hundred throwaway blogs and add a post to your site" is another. One can also put up a post with the top ten Technorati search terms several times a day in the hopes that those automated newsbot sites pick up your junk and link you. Not very interesting to read, but the gamers are all about boosting stats to make a quick buck.

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

historymike — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:39:48 -0000

I used to be an enthusiastic Technorati user, but I find that they send little traffic my way (maybe 15-20 visitors to my main site, which averages 300-500 uniques a day).

Thus, my current "authority" of 170 (representing 170 different Technorati-recognized sites linking to my blog) is dwarfed by the 7,000 external links to my site that Google sees.

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

AndyBeard — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:43:40 -0000

That is a little more complicated.

Google seem to have some problems with link attribution, and I have suffered a little from it as well on specific keywords I used to rank very well for.

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

AndyBeard — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:43:40 -0000

That is a little more complicated.

Google seem to have some problems with link attribution, and I have suffered a little from it as well on specific keywords I used to rank very well for.

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

Tim Schroeder — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:25:52 -0000

Speaking of John Chow, I wonder if Google decided to discount some of his backlinks. He sat at an impressive number 1 for "make money online" for a long time but now sits at the 54th position. The website does not even come up number one when doing a "John Chow" search.

Who knows though. He will probably be back at number 1 in a few days.

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

Tim Schroeder — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:25:52 -0000

Who knows though. He will probably be back at number 1 in a few days.

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

AndyBeard — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:08:25 -0000

As long as they still list your authority via their API

Engtech, that is exactly the point though - why would they continue reporting the domains they feel have been gaming the system for monetization or add noise, which then sell links that in turn affect their system.

I agree that the traffic directly from Technorati is minimal, but what happens when someone who writes for Techcrunch uses Technorati or Google Blogsearch to find a related link for a story and sends you a good deal more traffic?

Having received links from both Techcrunch and John Battelle in recent history, quite "out of the blue", the opportunity for casual but significant traffic is something worth maintaining.

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

AndyBeard — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:08:25 -0000

As long as they still list your authority via their API

Having received links from both Techcrunch and John Battelle in recent history, quite "out of the blue", the opportunity for casual but significant traffic is something worth maintaining.

Re: How To Avoid Being Banned By Technorati

AndyBeard — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:31:44 -0000

What currently remains of a search by authority is fairly messed up, such as a search of blog on a certain subject.

http://technorati.com/blogs...

They are normally listed in order of authority, and it is partially correct, but Technorati have explained to me that there are some syncing problems.

There also seems to be a major bug in reporting favorites today