Pleasing technorati
Filed in: Ed's blog spot
I regularly check how Technorati is treating The Pisstakers. It used to be a fun experience, but these days, the visit is more like a needle in my eye.
The deal is, that every day, a 6-month old link will drop off your technorati account and to maintain the rating, a new link has to step in. Since I stalled at 41000th in the world! Technorati has become a reminder that any blog will fade away and die unless you keep blogging and reaching out to new folks.
Peering into Technorati last night, I saw a new link back. Yeehah, I must be going up in the world. Oh! On closer inspection, I must have lost another link off the other end. Back on earth I am still ranking at 41000!
Technorati recognises bloggers who link out. I haven't stopped blogging, and I continue linking. Blog-and-link should be a good enough strategy to generate back-links and please Technorati. There is more to it than that, however. You have to be totally into Technorati, and you have to believe in their ways, brothers and sisters, else it won't work for you.
I broke a promise to myself and joined a meme thing a couple of weeks ago. In all honesty, I did enjoy showing my desktop off, and I felt like I was contributing something worthwhile to the internet beyond posting a long list of links to meme doers. I imagined that by joining the link train game I would see hundreds of back-links appear. That is what they tell you. The ratings of many meme, linktrain fans seem to back the theory up too. Not with me. Still 41000!
I can only think that my effort to please Technorati fell on stony ground because I am not a real fan! I didn't truly deeply madly believe.
Do you believe in Technorati?
I say I am doomed at Technorati, but maybe all is not lost. First, I ended up writing this post and adding a morsel of vaguely engaging 20-second material to the Stumble-o-sphere.
And second, if technorati works, hopefully Kate will see this link on her account and can read about her theme glitch from there. (From technorati I saw that Kate had linked to me and, playing by the internet rules, as I see them, I decided to comment on her blog site, thanking her for mentioning my disappearing hyphen post. No such luck.
No matter where I went on her sidebar, my cursor made her site disappear, piece by piece! I couldn't comment to say thanks, and neither could I click on the contact button to tell her that her theme doesn't work in Safari!
So, fingers crossed, maybe this time it will be Technorati to someone's rescue.
I updated this article following Untwisted Vortex' killer Technorati-related post, and I will add a follow-up to it too. (Don't tell anyone, because I am supposed to be a bit of an emotional stone, but his words brought a momentary lump to my throat - only for a very brief moment, you understand. Like for 0.03 seconds, the time it takes for Technorati to find my stalling account details.)
The deal is, that every day, a 6-month old link will drop off your technorati account and to maintain the rating, a new link has to step in. Since I stalled at 41000th in the world! Technorati has become a reminder that any blog will fade away and die unless you keep blogging and reaching out to new folks.
Peering into Technorati last night, I saw a new link back. Yeehah, I must be going up in the world. Oh! On closer inspection, I must have lost another link off the other end. Back on earth I am still ranking at 41000!
Improving Technorati rank, aka Mission Impossible
Technorati recognises bloggers who link out. I haven't stopped blogging, and I continue linking. Blog-and-link should be a good enough strategy to generate back-links and please Technorati. There is more to it than that, however. You have to be totally into Technorati, and you have to believe in their ways, brothers and sisters, else it won't work for you.
I broke a promise to myself and joined a meme thing a couple of weeks ago. In all honesty, I did enjoy showing my desktop off, and I felt like I was contributing something worthwhile to the internet beyond posting a long list of links to meme doers. I imagined that by joining the link train game I would see hundreds of back-links appear. That is what they tell you. The ratings of many meme, linktrain fans seem to back the theory up too. Not with me. Still 41000!
I can only think that my effort to please Technorati fell on stony ground because I am not a real fan! I didn't truly deeply madly believe.
Do you believe in Technorati?
Can't win for losing
I say I am doomed at Technorati, but maybe all is not lost. First, I ended up writing this post and adding a morsel of vaguely engaging 20-second material to the Stumble-o-sphere.
And second, if technorati works, hopefully Kate will see this link on her account and can read about her theme glitch from there. (From technorati I saw that Kate had linked to me and, playing by the internet rules, as I see them, I decided to comment on her blog site, thanking her for mentioning my disappearing hyphen post. No such luck.
No matter where I went on her sidebar, my cursor made her site disappear, piece by piece! I couldn't comment to say thanks, and neither could I click on the contact button to tell her that her theme doesn't work in Safari!
So, fingers crossed, maybe this time it will be Technorati to someone's rescue.
I updated this article following Untwisted Vortex' killer Technorati-related post, and I will add a follow-up to it too. (Don't tell anyone, because I am supposed to be a bit of an emotional stone, but his words brought a momentary lump to my throat - only for a very brief moment, you understand. Like for 0.03 seconds, the time it takes for Technorati to find my stalling account details.)
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