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Maybe Technorati will take you up on your suggestions.
And even though I use sites like "Blogging Chicks," which you said is "gaming" the system, I do have lot of genuine SEO traffic.
I believe my daily content would keep my Technorati ranking around 2,500 or so and much higher -- where, thank the Lord Jesus -- it has climbed to now.
We'll see what comes of this all.
You're probably keeping those Technorati developers busy!
Maybe Technorati will take you up on your suggestions.
And even though I use sites like "Blogging Chicks," which you said is "gaming" the system, I do have lot of genuine SEO traffic.
I believe my daily content would keep my Technorati ranking around 2,500 or so and much higher -- where, thank the Lord Jesus -- it has climbed to now.
We'll see what comes of this all.
You're probably keeping those Technorati developers busy!
Other bloggers do something to level the playing field, though I am not sure that is totally to their advantage.
Search traffic is heavily to do with keyword choices and you do a great job spotting highly controversial stories that are going to bring in traffic.
You are also doing a good job with social proof in your sidebar.
It is strange, even after 2000 bloggers was meant to be nerfed, I still see it crop up in Technorati links.
Other bloggers do something to level the playing field, though I am not sure that is totally to their advantage.
Search traffic is heavily to do with keyword choices and you do a great job spotting highly controversial stories that are going to bring in traffic.
You are also doing a good job with social proof in your sidebar.
It is strange, even after 2000 bloggers was meant to be nerfed, I still see it crop up in Technorati links.
Just a note that we're dropping the "big blogroll" thing from b5media (I believe we're the first network to do this). See the beta of the new template at www.ensight.org (my personal blog).
The reason was pretty simple: even though it'll likely hurt our Google/Technorati rank in the short term, only highlighting relevant sites in the network in the sidebar is far better for our readers. They don't get swamped and they aren't forced to look at every blog as a massive list (nevermind filtering through it to find the ONE blog they want to read).
Not that we've given up on showing off our blogs, we've just moved all that to the footer and created more of a "discovery zone" so that people who do want to poke around can. And for folk who don't, the sidebar is far, far cleaner than it was before.
Long and short is you'll see less "blogroll spam" in Technorati from us, even if it means we drop a few thousand in average ranking.
Maybe I should write a post about this ;-)
Just a note that we're dropping the "big blogroll" thing from b5media (I believe we're the first network to do this). See the beta of the new template at www.ensight.org (my personal blog).
The reason was pretty simple: even though it'll likely hurt our Google/Technorati rank in the short term, only highlighting relevant sites in the network in the sidebar is far better for our readers. They don't get swamped and they aren't forced to look at every blog as a massive list (nevermind filtering through it to find the ONE blog they want to read).
Not that we've given up on showing off our blogs, we've just moved all that to the footer and created more of a "discovery zone" so that people who do want to poke around can. And for folk who don't, the sidebar is far, far cleaner than it was before.
Long and short is you'll see less "blogroll spam" in Technorati from us, even if it means we drop a few thousand in average ranking.
Maybe I should write a post about this ;-)
Relevancy and LSI based linking is very important these days, and it is fun out-ranking Matt Cutts on terms like "Toolbar Pagerank" though that is quite by chance, it wasn't a keyword I was trying to rank for.
Lots of your blogs get very natural linking, and the interlinking can actually be done in a more user beneficial way and there could be some great monetization twists.
I must admit I have rarely browsed the blogs on the sidebar, and have more frequently ended up on a b5 blog following natural links.
Yes, you should use it for some positive PR
At least all your blogs on the blogroll are alive - Weblogs Inc have some extremely dead blogs still listed.
Relevancy and LSI based linking is very important these days, and it is fun out-ranking Matt Cutts on terms like "Toolbar Pagerank" though that is quite by chance, it wasn't a keyword I was trying to rank for.
Lots of your blogs get very natural linking, and the interlinking can actually be done in a more user beneficial way and there could be some great monetization twists.
I must admit I have rarely browsed the blogs on the sidebar, and have more frequently ended up on a b5 blog following natural links.
Yes, you should use it for some positive PR
At least all your blogs on the blogroll are alive - Weblogs Inc have some extremely dead blogs still listed.
We contacted the Technorati staff before working on the claiming feature asking them how to proceed, and we were open to suggestions/remarks, however we never received an answer. A warning from them about a possible nerf would have changed the way we looked at claiming (i guess we would have looked for an alternative to Technorati).
Anyway, we are still trying to figure out how they proceed with coComment claimed feeds, maybe we can improve things on our side, maybe it s a side effect of a change they made in their search results page, who knows, but as long as they ignore us we are in the dark.
max
coComment developer
We contacted the Technorati staff before working on the claiming feature asking them how to proceed, and we were open to suggestions/remarks, however we never received an answer. A warning from them about a possible nerf would have changed the way we looked at claiming (i guess we would have looked for an alternative to Technorati).
Anyway, we are still trying to figure out how they proceed with coComment claimed feeds, maybe we can improve things on our side, maybe it s a side effect of a change they made in their search results page, who knows, but as long as they ignore us we are in the dark.
max
coComment developer
Actually, we are still investigating what is happening and it is still too early to tell where are the problems. Right now, I do not think it is appropriate to blame anyone and to jump to conclusions.
When we decided to implement this integration, we believed this was a good win-win-win for bloggers, Technorati and us: all of us getting more content and/or visibility. The next step is probably to get more structure in that content, but getting and indexing all valuable content from a blog seems to be quite a interesting direction, no ?
And many thanks to Andy for pointing that issue to us !
Christophe.
Actually, we are still investigating what is happening and it is still too early to tell where are the problems. Right now, I do not think it is appropriate to blame anyone and to jump to conclusions.
When we decided to implement this integration, we believed this was a good win-win-win for bloggers, Technorati and us: all of us getting more content and/or visibility. The next step is probably to get more structure in that content, but getting and indexing all valuable content from a blog seems to be quite a interesting direction, no ?
And many thanks to Andy for pointing that issue to us !
Christophe.
There is a limit to how many neighbors show, thus it doesn't twist results extensively, and Technorati popularity is based upon unique blogs linking to you.
There is a limit to how many neighbors show, thus it doesn't twist results extensively, and Technorati popularity is based upon unique blogs linking to you.
Always happy to chat. I've been travelling a bit much lately, but will try and ping you in the next couple of weeks (though feel free to beat me to it) :)
As an FYI, I didn't receive any comment notifications, hence my delay in responding :)
Always happy to chat. I've been travelling a bit much lately, but will try and ping you in the next couple of weeks (though feel free to beat me to it) :)
As an FYI, I didn't receive any comment notifications, hence my delay in responding :)
Part of the Technorati claim process involves allowing Technorati to spider your blog to find a code snippet they ask you to insert. But Twitter doesn’t allow html in posts. So how did you get round that one?
Part of the Technorati claim process involves allowing Technorati to spider your blog to find a code snippet they ask you to insert. But Twitter doesn’t allow html in posts. So how did you get round that one?
But, actually, we were not focusing only on links, but also on search results: with comments on your blog indexed, this can give more visibility from a search results to your blog. Also, this give visibility on your own comments. As the link to your comment display the blog where you commented + a side bar with a reference to you and your own blogs, this was also increasing your own presence on Technorati search results.
The idea here is also that someone just commenting, without actually having a blog, become visible in the *sphere: everyone contributing can now have an "existence".
Thanks
Christophe
But, actually, we were not focusing only on links, but also on search results: with comments on your blog indexed, this can give more visibility from a search results to your blog. Also, this give visibility on your own comments. As the link to your comment display the blog where you commented + a side bar with a reference to you and your own blogs, this was also increasing your own presence on Technorati search results.
The idea here is also that someone just commenting, without actually having a blog, become visible in the *sphere: everyone contributing can now have an "existence".
Thanks
Christophe
Is there any news on whether they intend to change their policy on this?
Is there any news on whether they intend to change their policy on this?
We are still investigating what is happening and we hope to come very soon with a working solution.
We will keep you posted on our blog when we will make progress.
We are still investigating what is happening and we hope to come very soon with a working solution.
We will keep you posted on our blog when we will make progress.
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Thanks for that article..
Vish..!
Thanks for that article..
Vish..!