Comments on: Technorati Topics Announced & Bugs

By: Chris from Detroit

Chris from Detroit — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:51:47 +0000

ha. “making it easy.” That’s halarious.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:35:35 +0000

I just want Technorati to fix the problems with the Favorites! I can add people to my favorites, but then a page pops up saying “oops, we can’t show you your favorites because you have too many”, or something like that. So I don’t even know if the people I’m favoriting are actually getting added to my favorites! Drives me NUTS.

By: Ms Wahala

Ms Wahala — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:48:00 +0000

I don’t know how much I like the feature itself, but when I took my day off reading blogs, I actually found out about it through a tiny traffic spike from Technorati. Maybe it’s elitist, but it somehow works in my favor even though my blog isn’t that popular, lol.

The speed at which is scrolls is a bit disconcerting. But the fact that I see lesser known blogs is comforting. On the other hand, why does stuff from 10 am that morning get mixed in with things that were just published. I find that weird.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:27:02 +0000

Hi Dorion

First let me apologise, I was skim reading David Sifry’s post and read as far as “This moment also affords me the opportunity to extend a welcome – to our friend and colleague Dorion Carroll, who will take on the role of Vice President of Engineering, reporting to me.”

I didn’t read any more of the paragraph…

Glad to see things being implemented and fixed. I really like the OPML features though editing 900 favorites to remove a few broken ones was hard before the interface disappeared. There was talk of a more ajaxified editing interface with less page loads.

By: Ben Yoskovitz

Ben Yoskovitz — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:24:29 +0000

Andy – that’s true, I’m probably not accumulating links as quickly as before, although having sponsored a prize for David Airey’s blog contest I do see a lot of links coming in.

But I don’t see my ranking going up OR down. Lately it’s been dropping, a testament to the link building I was doing 6+ months ago, and now it seems stuck.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:18:41 +0000

It is possible you are not gaining enough links compared to 6 months ago – you were gaining some large spikes in traffic then from Digg

By: Dorion Carroll

Dorion Carroll — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:07:23 +0000

Andy, thanks for the feedback on Topics and for pointing out some of the issues with Popular. I’ll be looking into it today. We are working hard to get updates working 100% of the time but problems do arise. Thanks for pointing them out. Ben, I’ll see what I can do for your blog.

BTW, I’ve been with Technorati for 3 of its 4 years. Dorion

By: Ben Yoskovitz

Ben Yoskovitz — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:02:01 +0000

I get the feeling that Technorati’s rankings aren’t updating at all. Mine hasn’t changed in 4-5 days which is quite unusual.