I had come upon this technique sometime ago but with the recent change in the way Technorati looks, I wanted to document the link since it still appears to work. You can use the following URI to generate a PNG with incoming links to your blog for a given period using Technorati. There does seem to be a maximum number of days Technorati keeps track of links and that number is less than 365, closer to 200. Just change the BlogURL value to the URI of your blog, and modify the size of the graph as you see fit for your blog or application.
http://www.technorati.com/chartimg?q=BlogURL&days=3600&width=460&height=200&type=url
I come up with the following graph for WeblogToolsCollection.com
This is really cool! Thanks for sharing. 😀
I’ve tried this, but it seems to generate only an empty graph background, regardless of the parameters.
I get the same thing Dave does, a pretty little BLANK graph
Awesome Mark! Thanks for the tip here
Try it with out the http:// part
for example mine looks like:
http://www.technorati.com/char.....8;type=url
I can’t get it to work either. Sounds like a nice idea though 🙂
–Steve
for this to work, you have to edit the url to your URL!
edit ‘BlogURL’ part of the URL to your URL…
Thanks for this link. it’s interesting to see, and i haven’t seen anything like this previously.
interesting! here is mine
This is pretty useful. However, since my site’s numbers are pretty low, I think I’ll just add it to the Admin panel 😛
Thanks,
This is pretty useful. However, since my site’s numbers are pretty low, I think I’ll just add it to the Admin panel 😛
Thanks,
Interesting tip. I wonder if this is officially documented somewhere on the Technorati site.