Comments on: Technorati Favorites

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:05:47 +0000

I did, and then removed it – it doesn’t make any sense at all for me to favorite a blog which isn’t in English, and I can’t understand a word of it.
If I wasn’t planning to use the OPML data for other projects, it wouldn’t be a problem, but it would prove difficult filtering it out manually.

By: Amiene Rev

Amiene Rev — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:39:30 +0000

I just faved you. Please return the favor. Thanks.
Duke Amiene Rev

By: Technorati Favoritism - Trading Favours « //engtech

Technorati Favoritism - Trading Favours « //engtech — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:18:42 +0000

[...] Most Favorited Blogs which gets a lot less attention then the Technorati Rank. Six months ago it took only 60 favorites to become a Top 100 blog, now it is still a lowly 125 favorites. There are only seven blogs with over 700 favorites on all [...]

By: Franck Silvestre

Franck Silvestre — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:05:39 +0000

I’ve just added you to my tehnorati fav’s.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:45:51 +0000

Hi Jules

They do tend to be picked up, it is one of the reasons cloaked affiliate links can include the details of a page within search results, whereas older frame methods didn’t.

You don’t really want to go beyond 5 RSS items, because they leak Google Juice, and because they are probably in your sidebar, those links then get discounted.

On many themes sidebar contents gets included on every page, including the duplicate content pages, so ends up multiplying.

By: Jules

Jules — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:40:46 +0000

Hi Andy, I have a question for your Technorati Faves list. If it’s in an iframe will it still be picked up by the search engine spiders? I always thought that iframes were not bot friendly.

By: engtech

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:48:54 +0000

True, looking at it from the long term point of view. Anyone who ends up reading your blog from Technorati or MyBlogLog is a blogger, which means they’re more likely to subscribe and they’re more likely to link/interact/engage.

I hadn’t thought of it that way.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:52:29 +0000

You are looking at this from a purely statistics point of view, the amount of traffic that might be generated on a single day, from a single search term.

I take a long-term outlook on traffic, and also place a lot of value of various forms of social proof.

Technorati favorites is just measure of success, and actually has some use as it also allows me to help my readers as well. Whilst I have removed the Technorati widget showing posts from my sidebar temporarily because it was running very slowly, I will be introducing an RSS feed there soon.

I don’t think I have ever received more than 20 visitors in a day from MyBlogLog, but it has brought me a huge number of subscribers.

By: engtech

engtech — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:31:28 +0000

Matt Mullenwag had a good comment on being in the Technorati top 100: http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/10/27/wordpresscom-domain-registration-from-the-users-point-of-view/#comment-2655

He said that being in the Technorati Top 10 only drove around 200 hits a day.

I’ve been in the #1 position on Technorati search for the top search term before and seen only 40 hits/day.

Technorati doesn’t matter.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:28:20 +0000

Thanks for stopping by Rikki and glad you found something useful.

I will stick a link of your writeup over in the comments for the LinkedIn post so people can see why this is so useful.

I will be reciprocating the favourite shortly