Written on November 14th, 2006 at 12:11 pm by Darren Rowse
Add a Technorati Avatar to Promote Your Blog
Zen Bliss submitted the following reader quick tip (in fact this email from Zen Bliss inspired me to do this ‘reader quick tip series’):
Hi Darren. I read your site regularly – it’s a great resource for tips. Here’s one of my own, along the lines of getting more traffic to your blog.
It’s a very simple tip that will take mere seconds to implement, and can really benefit you in the long run. Ready for it? … upload an avatar to your Technorati profile. Many, many site authors who ping Technorati do not have an avatar. When a Technorati reader is scanning through pages of blog headlines, the avatars are so few and far between that the blog posts that are accompanied by them really jump out at you.
PS from Darren: I think this is a good simple tip that I’ve found to work also. I know when I added an icon to my Technorati account that I noticed a jump in visitors from the site. Nice one Zen Bliss.
17 Responses to “Add a Technorati Avatar to Promote Your Blog” - Add Yours
Caydel
November 14th, 2006 12:29 pm
I will vouch for this one – I’ve experienced it myself. Of course, needless to say, make your avatar fit with the image you are trying to put forward. I have seen some very professional blogs with silly looking avatars, while at the same time I have seen total spamlogs with very nice, clean, professional-looking avatars. Guess which I clicked on instinctively.
Your avatar is going to be the first thing people use to create an impression of you in Technorati – therefore, take it seriously.
Luke Meshios
November 14th, 2006 3:31 pm
What % more did this help your blog?
Ohad Gliksman
November 14th, 2006 4:36 pm
Great idea. I will implement it now.
It’s always nice to see people thinking out of the box.
May Ong
November 14th, 2006 4:39 pm
Zen Bliss and Darren
Thanks for the tip here.
I have seen bloggers posting Avatar (image) in forums. They are usually the ones I click on too as well because of the Avatar attached,
By the way – how do we create Avatar and where do I find Avatar?
Zantor
November 14th, 2006 5:24 pm
I have had an avatar with technorati for ages, but I have not seen any extra traffic from them. I ping them regularly, and, in fact, have not seen a single visitor that has come from one of their searches!
siong1987
November 14th, 2006 6:24 pm
Simple yet great idea… I will implement it now too. Hope it will help.
Thank you.
Increase Blog Traffic
November 14th, 2006 7:18 pm
hee hee… what if you put an animated avatar of an arrow pointing to the right? :D
Louis
November 14th, 2006 8:29 pm
I think Technorati is dead no matter what you search , you always end up with MySPace pages on top of the result search.
Antoine Khater
November 14th, 2006 8:45 pm
That series sure looks promising can’t wait to read more and hope my tips will be published :$ (well who doesn’t :o) )
Amanda Rush
November 15th, 2006 3:30 am
Is it possible to have a custom avidar designed? Being blind, I wouldn’t be very good at designing one, and I think implementing this tip would be helpful.
pcunix
November 15th, 2006 4:21 am
If anything ever “jumps” on Technorati, I’ve yet to see it. Technorati is dog-slow most of the time – why on earth would anyone ever search there? Especially now that Google has Blog Search..
JohnTP
November 15th, 2006 1:15 pm
I had known this tip and put an Avatar many months back and get about 5 hits from them daily.
richard
November 18th, 2006 9:51 pm
I am very new to blogging and don’t know what an avatar is. Can u explain?
thanks.
Richard
Blogging Quick Tips
November 28th, 2006 8:31 pm
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The Reviewer
November 29th, 2006 7:55 am
Is Avatar = to Picture? Or is this something else, I am not seeing? Technorati is not letting up upload a pic right now either.
Ryan
January 4th, 2007 6:06 am
I’m having trouble uploading pics with Technorati as well. In fact, every time I use Technorati, there seems to be something wrong with it.
I’ve seen many blogs that have several hundred other blogs that link to them on Technorati, yet the blog itself has extremely poor Google PR and Alexa ranking. Do you have any tips on how I can get more blogs to link to me on Technorati?
avatare
March 6th, 2007 12:36 am
another good site for avatars or avatare is http://www.findavatar.com
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