Comments on: What’s Wrong With Using Technorati to Rank Blogs?

By: Sidney

Sidney — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:19:34 +0000

I wonder why people always want to be on top, the first, the best, the whatever…
I really enjoy blogging not because I am number X among the millions and millions of other blogs. I am blogging because I am getting nice visitors and comments. I enjoy what I am doing (photography) and blogging give me a way to share my world with others. Simple pleasures lang….
I will not have an orgasm if technorati or google will give me a better ranking than Manolo Quezon’s blog.

By: Shari

Shari — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:54:52 +0000

Exactly what I’ve been telling some people! I’ve been trying to write something similar to this. I’m just about 60% done, but I’ll delete the draft and instead post a link to this blog entry because you covered the issue well—- better than what I could have done.

Two examples Yuga gave that could affect the results drastically are the 2K Bloggers project and theme authors. I do have some things to add—- Monday Madness, Thursday Thirteen, Friday’s Feast, etc posts with the automatic link building script thingamajig at the bottom of the posts. Instant change of rank in Technorati, don’t you think? Not all blogs participating in 2K Bloggers have been banned.

One frustration I have is that some people take something like this as absolute. Rankings do not measure genuine readership and quality of the blogs ranked, IMHO. They’re two things that are the most important, methinks. But it’s still a different story altogether. And heck, imagine my surprise when I’m also above MLQ3 in both Ratified and Yuga’s list. Ahh, shocking. Haha.

@Andrew, I’ve heard of your project when you posted about it in a mailing list. I was wondering how the feed reader stats affect the ranking, or maybe it’s just…there? ^_

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By: aMgiNe

aMgiNe — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:50:03 +0000

hi there, nice meeting you n ur family last night. just linked you up po. will frequent your blog moving forward. God bless. =)

By: paolomendoza

paolomendoza — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:08:35 +0000

i should try that flogs thing…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:12:09 +0000

Hi Angelo, thanks for your comments. Ratified.org is another way of looking at the Philippine blogosphere by ranking blogs with Technorati data. To be honest, it’s not a perfect system and we will never be able to properly rank blogs no matter how much data we have. Regarding your concern about flogs, to be honest, it’s possible, but then again, what sort of crazy person would do such a thing? If you’ve heard of the 2000 blogger project you’d know that a lot of participating blogs have been banned by Technorati. So, if I were to create a thousand blogs today, it would be utterly of no use because:

1. I’d be wasting a lot of time
2. These new blogs have no link juice whatsoever, because they are new, basically empty and pointless
3. Technorati would just ban me
4. Google, just like Technorati, will ban me
5. Yahoo! and MSN will also ban me
6. Wordpress and Blogspot will eventually figure me out and delete my blogs.
7. In the end, I’ll look like a fool
8. In SEO terms, it’s “black hat”

I have to point out that all the Pinoy blogs that I’ve “ratified” are legit. They all have real content and backlinks. But just like you, I’m surprised to see a few blogs ranking lower than they should. Yes, Technorati has its own quirks, but what I like about it is it doesn’t exclude anyone (who isn’t banned). It doesn’t require registration or javascript code. All I have to do is add a blog and connect to Technorati to pick up its stats. Once the stats are recorded, the blog is ranked immediately. Ratified.org is meant to unite, inspire and promote Filipino bloggers. That is the main reason why I created it.

By: j4s0n

j4s0n — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:04:35 +0000

Not biased, but i still prefer the old pinoytopblogs.com,

By: J. Angelo Racoma

J. Angelo Racoma — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:57:45 +0000

@Manolo, here’s a link to the plugin page: http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/feedburner-plugin . Just pop it into your plugins folder, activate via WordPress control panel, and key in your Feedburner feed address (assuming you have one already).

@nightfox, Google’s algorithm is not exactly free from abuse, though—at least from the point of view of those who think Google is becoming too powerful. Have you heard about the latest from Matt Cutts? They’re devaluing the link juice of paid text links!