Technorati Top 100 dumps Antbag.com
It appears Technorati decided to remove me from their top 100 popular blogs list. I’ve been expecting this ever since I first realized I had made the list. I only made the list because of the thousands of incoming links I have - from the many blogs that are using a Wordpress design that I authored. I made it all the way up to #38, and I’ve noticed today that I’m no longer there. It doesn’t really matter, although I did receive around 10-15 visits per day from being on that list.
Since Technorati has become pretty useless, now I don’t have much reason to pull up their site. 
April 27th, 2008 |
I found my way here from your wordpress design link from a friend’s blog. Glad I followed that link looks like some great information here that I’m about to check out.
Thanks for the comment, Karen. I hope you find something that will be helpful.
Well, Anthony, aren’t you glad for this… “For he has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake (dump!) you.’”
(Hebrews 13:5!)
haha! Well yes Jeri, I am glad that God is there regardless of how unworthy me or my blog is.
Technorati seems to have gone the way of Google pagerank. It looks like the long term measurements are going to be inbound links and RSS subscribers.
It was pretty cool to see you up there that high though!
Hey Shane,
It’s amazing how things change. Technorati used to be THE blog directory, and now, I’m not sure what the purpose is. I use it to sometimes see who all is linking to me, but that’s about it.
In terms of measuring a website, I’m not so sure that RSS subscriber count is really such a good metric, although that’s generally how blogs are judged. In my opinion, this would be extremely easy to fake as some have been accused of doing. Just my opinion.
RSS can be faked, but if your feedburner API is active a good detailed history can be seen at: http://www.blogperfume.com/feed-analysis/
This shows history, growth trends, and hits as well as subscribers (Check “Shoemoney” for last October and you’ll see the hits don’t jump like the subscriber count did when he gamed the RSS contest). Much harder to fake.
I’ve seen that tool at BlogPerfume, and understand what you’re saying……that tool is really how people know that The Rating Blog’s growth is bogus, right?
Yeah. If you look it up, you see massive subscribers but very little hits. Hits should generally be 2 to 3 times the subscriber count. This can no doubt be gamed as well. It’s just more difficult.