How To Get Into Technorati’s Top 100 Favorited Blogs
ADVERTISEMENTSI have wondered many times on how hard it will be to get my blog to be one of the Top 100 Favorited Blogs in Technorati.
My curiosity increased when I saw a porn site on the 16th position of the Top 100 Favorited Blogs. So I thought if they can get that far, why can’t I?
So I started an experiment - I asked my readers to favorite my blog and favorited their blogs in return.
The post got good response (currently 108 comments) and also a few other bloggers started doing the same thing on their blogs too. And after 9 days, JohnTP.com became one of the Top 100 Favorited Blogs!
So it’s easy as that. And some people even thought I was begging to get favorited, well, Yes, I did ask my readers to add me but that was the only way to make this experiment successful.
So now, JohnTP.com is one of the Top 100 Favorited blogs. But I am sure Technorati is smarter than us and that they will fix it up very soon for the betterment of results.
My suggestion to Technorati team is that they should check in how much time a blog gets favorited and based on that they can have a better algorithm to allow blogs on Top 100 Favorited list.
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Posted on December 20th, 2006 | Category: Great Finds |
Deep
December 20, 2006 at 2:40 am
Hey, that’s something cool John. You always come up with some or other new thing.
Good work.
Regards,
Deep
sourcer
December 20, 2006 at 2:40 am
You are in the top 100 and you want to leave
I am curious, how many hits you get from technorati everyday ?
Divya
December 20, 2006 at 2:58 am
It’s truth.
To be at top of any social-bookmarking sites like Digg.com, Technorati.com and even in netscape.com you got have a strong Democratic network. Its the way things are going there, otherwise you got to have big fanclub, which keep’s you up there.
Gr8 you made it.
Divya.
Madhur Kapoor
December 20, 2006 at 3:14 am
COngrats John…you made it..
Ben H
December 20, 2006 at 3:24 am
Great that you reached there and an interesting fact about Technorati..!!! They would probably start reworking on their algorithm now
JohnTP
December 20, 2006 at 4:06 am
sourcer - I don’t get much hits from Technorati. And Darren Rowse just let me know that he hardly ever gets a visitor from the Top 100 Favorites list even though his blog is the 7th most favorited Blog!
Ben H - Yes, I hope so too.
listikal
December 20, 2006 at 4:42 am
You are so right on with this statement…
“So now, JohnTP.com is one of the Top 100 Favorited blogs. But I am sure Technorati is smarter than us and that they will fix it up very soon for the betterment of results.”
however…I don’t think it’s a problem that you got into the Top 100, because if someone is reading your blog regularly, which obviously a majority of these people are, then why not favorite it. It’s not any different then joining a MyBlogLog community after someone has joined yours.
They just need to filter out adult sites or have favorited categories, with the adult section on another part of the site.
dEEPAK
December 20, 2006 at 8:21 am
congrats.. u finally made it…
now whats next? :p
qureyoon
December 20, 2006 at 8:41 am
this is great news man ^^ congratz ^^
Peter
December 20, 2006 at 2:45 pm
Good, happy for you
WSLiang
December 20, 2006 at 4:56 pm
Creative experiment you have there.
tony greene
December 20, 2006 at 10:58 pm
That’s awesome keep up the great work. I look to you as an inspiration for my own endeavours.
Quix0r
December 21, 2006 at 3:33 am
Is that brazil-girl-page just porn? If so, Technorati shall also ban them from their index. If not, what is it else?
Work At Homes
December 21, 2006 at 5:19 am
Lol, great little trick. I suppose its like link farming
Might have to try it. But I am sure technorati system will knock out the bad blogs as quick as the get up there.
JohnTP
December 21, 2006 at 12:48 pm
Quix0r- It’s a porn site
JFB
December 22, 2006 at 3:37 am
Hi John,
I read your blog by chance while browsing Technorati (you posted about how to get to Technorati top 100 favorites, just a few minutes after I wrote about how to get to technorati top 100…Coincidence. And I started reading many of your other posts, until I realized I had already read one of them.
And today I see you made it to 9 rules.
Congrats. Good job.
Tim
December 22, 2006 at 10:26 am
I see the phrase “favorite it” a lot in this post. What is meant by it? Is John saying ask your readers to “bookmark” your site? Is that what he means?
I use DELICIOUS, and people can add me by clicking on it, if they have DELICIOUS that is.
JohnTP
December 22, 2006 at 9:40 pm
JFB- Thank you
Tim- I meant favoriting on Technorati
Enblogopedia
December 23, 2006 at 3:36 pm
Well John..I don’t know if what you did is illegal or not, do you considered this?!
Just asking man..CUZ I don’t want you to get banned from technorati..
Tim
December 23, 2006 at 3:51 pm
Well, fortunately for me, or not fortunately depending on how one looks at it, there are not a lot of fitness blogs out there, which makes mine somewhat unique. At least my search for fitness blogs did not pull up many results.
The downside to that is the fact that it appears there is little interest in reading a fitness blog as well. So, grabbing the attention of people is going to be hard for me, which is a shame because my site is not bad. It’s actually pretty good.
Tim
December 23, 2006 at 3:54 pm
What I mean is that most blogs are about nothing, and like the Seifeld show, that is what makes some of them so interesting. My blog is about something, which narrowly defines it, so my market is going to be narrow. I guess I am not going to have a very popular blog. LOL
Ari
December 28, 2006 at 10:46 pm
I said this before in another comment. People become to obsessed with their Technorati rankings. If you’re writing for Bloggers (i.e. JohnTP, Problogger) then fine it makes sense to be ranked high but if your content is for the everyday joe shmoe or some type of niche then chances are they dont care about your rank.
Also, your rank on Technorati has almost nothing to do with how you rank on Google. My rank on Technorati sucks but on Google searches for my niche I come out on the first or second page of results. Sometimes even at the top of the first page of search results.
Another thing, here are three of many blogs in the top 50 of Technorati rank that have not been claimed:
http://technorati.com/blogs/http://www.gizmodo.com
http://technorati.com/blogs/ht.....hacker.com
http://technorati.com/blogs/http://instapundit.com
The fact that they are unclaimed means they don’t waste their time worrying about their rank on Technorati. Who knows they may not even know anything about Technorati.
So unless you’re writing for bloggers worry about your blog’s content instead of your Technorati rank.
BTW John, regarding your comment “I am sure Technorati is smarter than us and that they will fix it up very soon for the betterment of results.”
Whats so smart about automatically ranking blogs by the number of in-bound links they have. You just proved how easy it was to manipulate the system.
Just so you don’t get confused by my comment and think I am attacking you in any way, your blog is one of my top two favorites. Keep the posts coming!
Tomás
December 29, 2006 at 1:31 am
my blog is 466,402 on Technorati´s rank, I think I should do something like that, but I have only 50 or 60 visits everyday, so I have a lot of work to do.
Veto
January 1, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Hi John.
You have just been octalified (read:favorited) hehe
Feel free to do the same for http://www.octalforty.com
Looking forward to future great posts by you!
P/S: Managed to slip in JohnTP.com too in my own post heheh
Garry Conn
January 2, 2007 at 1:10 am
Congrats on the experiment. That is very cool to see, and I have added your site to my favorites as well.
Graham Jones
January 6, 2007 at 12:01 am
Well done - but worthwhile thinking about The Long Tail. Being high in the popularity stakes doesn’t always equate to success. Chasing customers is more important than chasing popularity votes. However, getting high ratings on Technorati shouldn’t be sniffed at.
ars
January 6, 2007 at 5:08 pm
very smart john