Technorati Network and Linking

I have focused on Technorati over the past few posts. Something that we have hit on is that Technorati relies a lot on how many linking to determine your popularity. The more links the better.

There are many ways to get linking. You can guest blog, share links, and post about something worth linking to.

Networking is another way to get links to your site.

In this network;

1. You submit a link to your site in the comment section of this post.
2. I will embed that link in this post,
3. You copy and paste that link list into a post.
4. In the end, there will be a long list of posts linking to your blog and everyone elses on the list.

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So, copy and paste this list into a post on your site. Then comment this post with your blog address so I can post it for others to copy and paste into their posts.

Stufftoblogabout
Successfulblogging
Chocoholic
Harriet
To be in America
Your spot
To join click here
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Signing up for technorati

Yesterday, I wrote a post about the benefits of Technorati.

Whether or not you intend to use the service as a bookmarking tool, the fact is, if you want more hits, you'd better network for some links and favorites.

Unbelievable, I have never signed up fr the service, so today I will.
The sign-up is painless. They simply want to know your name and whether or not you are human.

Once you sign up, they will ask you to claim your site. This is a good idea if you want to assure that your links all count. They will also ask to claim your open ID. Both of these items are optional.

What to do after you sign up
Visit the support forum.

Frequently Asked Questions

Check these out

Sticky: How do I get indexed? or better indexed?
Sticky: What does Claiming my blog do for me?
Sticky: Blog Claim has changed. What's different?
Sticky: I'm not getting my verification, password reset or other emails from Technorati
Sticky: Most recent posts not indexed AND "Last Pinged" date IS NOT updating?
Sticky: When I try to find my blog in Blog Search, get "Sorry, we can’t find that blog"
What is Authority?
Why is my Link Count Widget not showing reactions?
Getting the "The claim code was not found on your blog" message?
Getting the "This URL has been flagged by our systems" message immediately?
Why is my Authority not changing at all when it should be?
Can I make the Profile Image Size smaller?
Can I change the way the Technorati Widget looks in my blog?
Is there a way to pull a list of all the blogs are linking to my blog?

Tomorrow I will introduce an opportunity for you to get some links.

Technorati Ranking and Authority

What is a "Technorati Ranking?"

Technorati Ranking relates to the number of sources that point to your blog relative to other blogs. The more sources referencing your blog, the higher the Technorati ranking. The Technorati Ranking for a blog is displaying in URL Search results, Blog search results, and is displayed in the account profile for all claimed blogs.

Technorati Authority is the number of blogs linking to a website in the last six months. The higher the number, the more Technorati Authority the blog has.

It is important to note that they measure the number of blogs, rather than the number of links. So, if a blog links to your blog many times, it still only count as +1 toward your authority. Of course, new links mean the +1 will last another 180 days.

Technorati Rank is calculated based on how far you are from the top. The blog with the hightest Technorati Authority is the #1 ranked blog. The smaller your Technorati Rank, the closer you are to the top.

Since at the lower end of the scale many blogs will have the same Technorati Authority, they will share the same Technorati Rank.

The Technorati Top 100 shows the most popular 100 blogs based on Technorati Authority. The #1 ranked blog is the blog with the most other distinct blogs linking to it in the last 6 months. If your blog's rank is, say 305,316, this indicates that there are 305,315 blog ranks separating your blog from the #1 position.

The best way to increase your Technorati Authority is to write things that are interesting to other bloggers so they'll link to you. Linking to source material when you blog is also a great way to engage in conversation and help others find what you find interesting.

If you want to let your readers see your Technorati Authority on your blog, install the Technorati Authority widget.
<script src="http://widgets.technorati.com/t.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>
<a href="http://technorati.com/blogs/{URL}?sub=tr_authority_t_ns" class="tr_authority_t_js" style="color:#4261DF">View blog authority</a>



According to Technorait , authority is determined by the number of unique blogs indexed by Technorati that have linked to yours in the past 180 days. Thus, as links from blogs age out of this window and new links are added, your authority may rise, fall, or stay the same over time. Also, if the same blog links to you many times in the past 180 days, it only counts once towards your authority though it does renew the age of link.

The link must appear in your blog reactions to be applied to your authority. If the links are not in your blog reactions, please check to see if the blogs and/or the post with the links are in Technorati. If they are not, then encourage the blog owners to ping Technorati, or better yet to claim their blogs in Technorati (gives the blog higher priority) so the blogs are submitted for review and then indexed by Technorati for their blogs and posts.

you need to get more links to get a higher rank - but look at the links the top 10 blogs - you can see a drastic rise in the number of links required to break in here. Note also the 'long tail' - a term popularized in recent years, but particularly applicable to the blogosphere.

Test your rank from Modern Life



For other blog widgets from Technorati

What is Technorati

There is some talk among bloggers concerning Technorati.
Some say it is the greatest thing in the world for getting traffic to your blog while others say it is flawed.

I will take a few posts to examine the pros and cons of Technorati.

What is Technorati?
The folks at Technorati say that they are the leading monitor of the world of weblogs.

It is all about links. Technorati is a real-time search engine that allows you to find out what people are saying about you, your company, your products, your competitors, and, other areas of interest, on the Internet in real time .

Think of it as an Internet search engine that indexes and searches blogs. As of June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.

How does it work?

This is where linking becomes important. Because blogs tend to be frequently updated, articles you find on a weblog's homepage one day may not be there the next. A permalink is the permanent identifier to a specific weblog post or article. Bloggers love permalinks — they provide an easy way to capture specific references to posts or articles about which bloggers are writing.

Why is linking so important?
A link from one weblog to another helps provide context around an argument or point, and it is essentially a "vote of attention" from one blogger to another. By linking to another site or blog, the weblog author is saying, "I find what you are saying important enough to link to it." Linking also helps create the conversation of the Web, the critical mass of connected thought that is not available in static text.

Therefore, you need to be aware of your sites relevance on the Web. This can help with your authority, a term I'll explore in another post.

Technorati was founded to help bloggers to succeed by collecting, highlighting, and distributing the online global conversation. As the leading blog search engine and most comprehensive source of information on the blogosphere, they index more than 1.5 million new blog posts in real time and introduce millions of readers to blog and social media content.