Comments on: Growth Numbers; Looking Better

By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:19:10 +0000

Good point Rodney. Being added to someone’s blogroll is an honor from where I sit.

By: Rodney Smith

Rodney Smith — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:41:13 +0000

Agreed – I wouldn’t focus on the technorati rank other than as some sort of measure of how you’re doing in terms of promoting your blog generally. But the goal is to get the links – which is where the true “authority” comes from. The technorati rank is just a number.

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By: Sire

Sire — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:42:20 +0000

I agree with you totally and have stopped trying to increase my technorati ever since finding out about the 6mth rule.

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:08:38 +0000

I’d agree with annoying, but truthfully, I’m not going to overly worry about trying to make it go higher in any other fashion than just hoping more people decide to stop by for a visit. And, I’ve decided to start adding people who end up writing lots of comments, which goes along with the top commenters list, which will help me make sure to remember who to visit. I subscribe to most folks, but sometimes I don’t remember the blog names. There’s just so many blogs.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:06:20 +0000

I’ve been reading that it only goes back six months, which seems to be the oddest thing to me. Then again, if one can continue on an upward trend, then I guess that’s about as far back as you’d need.

By: Sire

Sire — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:49:23 +0000

Perhaps not a total waste, but a little annoying?

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By: Rodney Smith

Rodney Smith — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:17:48 +0000

Sire, yes it’s a bummer. But you still retain the benefits of all those links from an SEO point of view, so it’s not really a waste of time.

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By: Sire

Sire — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:02:11 +0000

It’s a shame Rodney that Technorati only keeps track of links for the last 6 months. I used to work like a dog to get my links up to over a hundred and then slacked off and was surprised to see them go back down, and then found the 6 month rule. I figured it just wasn’t worth the effort.

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By: Rodney Smith

Rodney Smith — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:44:09 +0000

The thing with the ranking numbers is: if they’re good it’s like “hey, look at my rankings – aren’t they great?”. But if they’re bad then it’s “oh whatever – they don’t mean anything anyway…”.

The technorati one is basically the number of different blogs that have linked to yours in the last 6 months (not the total number of links, cos obviously you could get loads of links from a single site – that still only adds 1 to your authority).

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By: Sire

Sire — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:06:46 +0000

I know that Andy, the author of commentluv, is working on an Ajax version that will let you actually choose a particular post to link to. Perhaps that is causing some drama?