Comments on: Technorati Lacks Authority

By: Lexx

Lexx — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:54:09 +0000

When Technorati first changed over to the Authority listing, I commented that it was a pointless ranking mechanism. It is interesting to see, many, many months later, that others are starting to agree with me, if for rather altuistic reasons.

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A "autoridade" do technorati | Rui Cruz Web (B)log — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:52:55 +0000

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By: Africa vacation

Africa vacation — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:55:35 +0000

It is true that technorati needs a major over haul but even google does that sometimes. The key here is natural link building. I think it’s about time technorati looks at the sites linking to you and see if they relate to your blog. i.e if you have an African travel website like mine then I should get authority if a travel related site links to me. Rather than just any site/blog linking to me.

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Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:42:18 +0000

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By: propaganda press

propaganda press — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:46:54 +0000

ok thanks for messing up my whole day…who do i pray to now that technorati is no longer GOD?
riddle me that mr. riddle me that

By: Preyanka

Preyanka — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:35:08 +0000

I’ve written about a similar issue with Technorati–dealing with link exchanges–on my blog. I agree, the system needs an overhaul.

By: moby

moby — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:37:42 +0000

Technorati was great when it first hit the scene. Now it is often so bogged down within it’s own drivel, it doesn’t even function. I keep hoping someone else will come along and offer the same solution done correctly.

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Technorati Lacks Authority | kahunaroad — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:58:59 +0000

[...] Weblog Tools Collection » Blog Archive » Technorati Lacks Authority Those in the blogosphere will at one time or another hear of a service called Technorati. What is Technorati anyways? Technorati is a search engine for blogs that scours the web to try and tell you what’s being said about what and by whom. In order to tell which blogs are the more popular of the bunch, Technorati uses a ranking system that determines how many people have linked to a blog which is called (Authority) and how many people have added that blog to their Technorati favorites. content sharing, publishing, software, technorati [...]

By: Respect My Authority: The Technorati Hubbub « Gormful

Respect My Authority: The Technorati Hubbub « Gormful — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:43:00 +0000

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By: Rex Ruthless

Rex Ruthless — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:45:46 +0000

Technorati sucks anyway… what a useless waste of a service. As stated, if they were bright enough to count links from posts differently than footer or blogroll links there wouldn’t be a need for this blatant manipulation. Useless buggers!

By: Truden

Truden — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:41:37 +0000

For bloggers trying to make their way up in the blogosphere, it’s really upsetting that while you bust your butt writing content while obtaining legit links from other bloggers, you will never show up on the radar because other bloggers have developed a popular theme or plugin with their own little credit link attached.

Simple, beautiful and clear!

Of course it is not fair with one VERY popular plugin or theme to take place before ProBlogger (let say)in the rank list.

Not only that it is not fair, but it goes against the logic of blogging.
Blogging is interrelation and intercommunication on the Web.
Technorati measures and ranks blogs which are BLOGGING.
The popularity of a blog should be measured by its readers who interrelate and intercommunicate by sending links back.

Is it so difficult to understand it?

By: G-Man

G-Man — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:45:29 +0000

While I do see what you’re saying, I think that ALL ranking systems I have seen so far can be gamed in SOME way.

G-Man

By: adam

adam — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:05:11 +0000

matt’s got the right solution (comment #20). If google’s blogsearch can automatically ignore footer links, technorati can too. they’re just not very good at their supposed core competency.

By: Pi

Pi — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:27:33 +0000

A quick addition to my last comment, which I posted without checking out exactly what ‘many, many months’ entailed: I posted a post on the problems Technorati has with calculations in October 2006; I was not the first one to do so either.

Pi.

By: Pi

Pi — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:21:10 +0000

Technorati is good for finding other weblogs and similar subject matters within weblog postings. That is what I use it for, as do many others. If I thought it wasn’t worthwhile I’d stop putting the Technorati links on my weblog postings, and I am sure others would stop too. Technorati, for those who designed the new Dashboard page on WP, is, however, considerably better than google - and that regardless of whether anyone wishes to bolster their own ego with Authority or PageRank here or there. Such things are useful for those out to make money, not for those who wish to concentrate on writing interesting articles and catching a smller, selecter audience.

Pi.

By: Sheels

Sheels — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:02:27 +0000

Er, the index is claimed to be one of “authority”, not gross backlinks - theme creation is not a completely authoritative statement.

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By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:11:15 +0000

For blogs without full text RSS feeds, they could still configure their algorithm so that it detects the most popular blog engines, and parse just the posts.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:58:03 +0000

Well, they could just pull the RSS feed and parse links in the actual posts, and ignore the links on the actual blog. Most Blogs have RSS feeds. How about that as a solution?