Comments on: Technorati Introduce Favorites and Plays Favorites?

By: Marie Carnes

Marie Carnes — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 02:55:56 +0000

Technorati is constanly perplexing. On a few occasions I’ve found someone clicking through to my blogs from Technorati. But, when I clicked on the referrer link to go back to Technorati, there was no indication whatsoever of how the person got to my site.

As for splogs, I suspect Technorati is loaded with them. Case in point: I caught one splog rising to the top of the tags list the other night:

http://www.disarranging.com/review/archives/001650.php

Good luck to Darren and everyone else trying to get into Technorati. I’ve been trying to check for ProBlogger in Technorati for the last hour or so, but I keep getting, “experiencing a high volume of requests right now….” This, on a Saturday night in the states.

By: suzanne

suzanne — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 05:12:47 +0000

hey, darren.
i’m a regular reader and always find much of value on your pages, but i was just going to point to the same technorati indexing tips. when i ran this page through the W3C validator, it says: Failed validation, 50 errors. i cleaned up the validation on my own pages and although i’m hardly in your league, found myself nicely indexed shortly thereafter.

By: Ali

Ali — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 05:32:47 +0000

I recently tried these 5 tips for better Technorati indexing and they seem to have started working for me.

By: Barry

Barry — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:24:18 +0000

I’m having trouble with this aswell, in the past 2 weeks I have had some heavy links from Gizmodo, Engadget and some Mac sites and I find that technorati doesn’t update my ratings at all or how many links to my site there are, im stuck on 0, to be honest they are a complete waste of time.

By: A View from the Isle

A View from the Isle — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:14:57 +0000

Technorati adds favourites … the good, the cool, and the darkside

Technorati added a new favourites feature last night. In a nutshell it lets you make certain blogs as favourites (like bookmarks) and share that …

By: John Hamman

John Hamman — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:25:17 +0000

Yeh Darren, when I add you to my favorites, it says it added you, BUT you dont show up, odd. But other blogs like http://www.successful-blog.com does show up when I add it. Let me ask you, do you ping Technorati yourself by hand or use something like pingomatic?
-john

By: Paul -V-

Paul -V- — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:59:55 +0000

So if I want my blog unblocked, I have to make friends with someone at Technorati.

Great.

Let me look in my Rolodex, and call up the Wanda… I think she used to be the best friend of the the mechanic who works on the CEOs car.

It’s not so much that I resent Technorati, it’s just that I don’t understand why I am blocked in the first place. I use the tags, I write unique content, I don’t post porn, I don’t abuse the system or use cheap SEO tricks.

I’m obeying the rules… so what gives?

If the folks at Technorati would just say: “Brainshrub.com is being blocked because of A, B and C”, I could make the changes and be done with it.

But instead I am treated like a splog, and I have no idea why.

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:45:03 +0000

Find me about $50 million in startup capital and I’ll code the next Technorati. Without glitches. :)

By: Tom Hanna

Tom Hanna — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 07:49:57 +0000

They are completely hit and miss. I have one blog that is sufficiently original content that it got picked up by a syndicator that is apparently banned as a splog. (To be clear, I’m using “syndicator” in the old newspaper/TV sense of the word – someone sufficiently interested in republishing my content to actually pay me for it – not in the blogospheric sense.) On the other hand, I have a newer blog that is essentially tracking news stories on a particular topic and it is indexed. Though I do select the news stories personally and not through any sort of “scraping” and I comment on each one, it certainly would seem to fit the pattern of a splog much more closely than my blogs that have been banned. Technorati is seriously broken, they know it and except when called on it by someone with clout like you they simply don’t care. It’s time to start looking for an alternative.

By: Tris

Tris — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 06:55:40 +0000

I agree Darren … and David … you’re showing your typical excellence at tracking the blogosphere.

I think as support goes, and speaking as one of the people who answers a lot of Qumana support e-mails, it’s the toughest part of this whole biz. I’m not worked up about it, I know that it’s hard.

David … maybe there is a way we can put our heads together and find a good way to help.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 06:28:30 +0000

Thanks for responding David – I’ve just emailed my problems to you.

Tris – it does seem to be a problem. Of course I can understand when you’re indexing 28million blogs there’s got to be some glitches. I try to keep it in perspective and not get too worked up about it though.

By: Tris

Tris — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 06:18:45 +0000

You’re not alone Darren … while my blog seems to get indexed okay I know of several who aren’t. And universally people who e-mail in don’t get responses either.

As much as the favourites are cool … I think they need to work on their support more too.

By: David Sifry

David Sifry — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 06:09:56 +0000

Hm, I just checked and you are indeed being indexed, all of your recent posts show up on Technorati…

I just added problogger.net to my favorites, and it showed up a-ok. What problems are you still experiencing? Drop me a line at dsifry AT technorati DOT com…

Dave