Comments on: How the Technorati ranking system works. http://lucasmcdonnell.com/how-the-technorati-ranking-system-works/ / knowledge connects people. Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:43:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: collis http://lucasmcdonnell.com/how-the-technorati-ranking-system-works/comment-page-1/#comment-683 collis Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:32:09 +0000 http://www.lucasmcdonnell.com/2007/01/29/how-the-technorati-ranking-system-works/#comment-683 A few extra things i've noted: - the number of blogs is more important than the number of links, for example 100 links from 50 blogs is a lot less important 60 links from 60 blogs. - number of links affects the "Most linked to" blog list - number of favourites affects the "Most favourited" blog list (http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/?faves=1) I don't think there is much traffic from technorati, but nonetheless I have decided to try to get my blog onto the most favourited list! Blog #100 on there has precisely 100 favourites, i have ... 3, which means i'm 3% of the way there :-) A few extra things i’ve noted:

- the number of blogs is more important than the number of links, for example 100 links from 50 blogs is a lot less important 60 links from 60 blogs.

- number of links affects the “Most linked to” blog list
- number of favourites affects the “Most favourited” blog list (http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/?faves=1)

I don’t think there is much traffic from technorati, but nonetheless I have decided to try to get my blog onto the most favourited list! Blog #100 on there has precisely 100 favourites, i have … 3, which means i’m 3% of the way there :-)

]]> By: Lucas McDonnell http://lucasmcdonnell.com/how-the-technorati-ranking-system-works/comment-page-1/#comment-584 Lucas McDonnell Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:43:21 +0000 http://www.lucasmcdonnell.com/2007/01/29/how-the-technorati-ranking-system-works/#comment-584 Thanks for the info Eric. I suspected that the favourites did not have any impact on the weighting, but didn't have any proof to back up my assumption. I never thought of calling Technorati support! :) I would agree -- while I get a few visitor from Technorati, the traffic that it drives to my site is rather minimal. Thanks for the info Eric. I suspected that the favourites did not have any impact on the weighting, but didn’t have any proof to back up my assumption. I never thought of calling Technorati support! :)

I would agree — while I get a few visitor from Technorati, the traffic that it drives to my site is rather minimal.

]]> By: Eric http://lucasmcdonnell.com/how-the-technorati-ranking-system-works/comment-page-1/#comment-582 Eric Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:48:44 +0000 http://www.lucasmcdonnell.com/2007/01/29/how-the-technorati-ranking-system-works/#comment-582 If you have questions about the ranking you can contact the technorati technical support. I did. The links are not weighted. Favorites do not help your score. So any blog with a ton of link backs from a link trading service or something will be ranked very high regardless of their traffic, unique visitors, favorites, content or anything. If you ask me its about time technorati upped their rankings calculations. I don't know about most people, but getting high in the technorati rankings doesn't even really benefit your blog that much. As far as my blog is concerned virtually zero traffic comes from technorati. If you have questions about the ranking you can contact the technorati technical support. I did. The links are not weighted. Favorites do not help your score. So any blog with a ton of link backs from a link trading service or something will be ranked very high regardless of their traffic, unique visitors, favorites, content or anything.

If you ask me its about time technorati upped their rankings calculations.

I don’t know about most people, but getting high in the technorati rankings doesn’t even really benefit your blog that much. As far as my blog is concerned virtually zero traffic comes from technorati.

]]> By: Lucas McDonnell http://lucasmcdonnell.com/how-the-technorati-ranking-system-works/comment-page-1/#comment-520 Lucas McDonnell Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:01:59 +0000 http://www.lucasmcdonnell.com/2007/01/29/how-the-technorati-ranking-system-works/#comment-520 Thanks Qwerty. I think you're right -- I doubt having blogs added in as favourites will really have any impact on your rating, but who knows (I'm still also curious to know if Technorati has weighted inbound links, but I also suspect that they don't). Thanks Qwerty. I think you’re right — I doubt having blogs added in as favourites will really have any impact on your rating, but who knows (I’m still also curious to know if Technorati has weighted inbound links, but I also suspect that they don’t).

]]> By: Qwerty_ http://lucasmcdonnell.com/how-the-technorati-ranking-system-works/comment-page-1/#comment-519 Qwerty_ Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:54:57 +0000 http://www.lucasmcdonnell.com/2007/01/29/how-the-technorati-ranking-system-works/#comment-519 Nice little article there lucas. But I think that most of the rank would come from inbound links and not from people adding you to their favourites list. Let us know what comes out from it though. Nice little article there lucas. But I think that most of the rank would come from inbound links and not from people adding you to their favourites list. Let us know what comes out from it though.

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