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By: » Dealing with Some Criticisms on the Technorati Favorites Exchange Experiment

Fri, 18 May 2007 02:56:04 +0000

[...] and Additional Reading Darren Rowse wrote a new post which reassesses the topic of favorites swapping. In his post are several links to other bloggers [...]

By: This Week In SEO - 5/4/07 - TheVanBlog

This Week In SEO - 5/4/07 - TheVanBlog — Fri, 04 May 2007 20:31:57 +0000

[...] More on Technorati Favorite Swapping [...]

By: David de Ugarte

David de Ugarte — Wed, 02 May 2007 19:42:42 +0000

This debate is not new in Spanish speaking blogosphere. In our discussion I think got stablished that rankings cannot reflex the blogosphere structure, the information they provide is not very useful. Why? Mainly because the blogosphere is not a network but many and rankings presents the top linked or top somethinged of the biggest network as the most globally influential… what is simply false.

More: http://www.deugarte.com/wiki/contextos/rankismo

By: My thoughts on the Technorati Fave Swapping

My thoughts on the Technorati Fave Swapping — Wed, 02 May 2007 18:41:29 +0000

[...] further reading, Darren and Maki both have their good points regarding this whole [...]

By: My PageRank, ReviewMe, poetry meme, affiliate sales | Rehuel punt kom

My PageRank, ReviewMe, poetry meme, affiliate sales | Rehuel punt kom — Wed, 02 May 2007 11:04:12 +0000

[...] In the 2 months I’ve been blogging, I managed to raise my unique daily visits to an average of 150. I hit 450 once when I tried submitting my OpenOffice.org vs. Open Office article to Digg, del.icio.us, Netscape and reddit. The next day I submitted my article about the different Ubuntus to the same sites and that brought me 680 unique visits. With this I was trying to get some of those many visitors to keep coming back. I did see a rise from 90 daily to 150, so who knows, maybe it worked. Or maybe it’s because my post about my real favorite blogs was mentioned on Darren Rowse’s blog. [...]

By: Dealing with Some Criticisms on the Technorati Favorites Exchange Experiment

Dealing with Some Criticisms on the Technorati Favorites Exchange Experiment — Wed, 02 May 2007 02:54:50 +0000

[...] Rowse wrote a new post which reassesses the topic of favorites swapping. In his post are several links to other bloggers [...]

By: engtech

engtech — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:01:40 +0000

Trackback never happened, so here’s the manual version:
http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/technorati-favorites-exchange-fixing-technorati-favorites/

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:57:53 +0000

Another point about these blog fads (applies not just to the Technorati thing, but to many of the memes going around, too) -- for most of us who write on topics that are not web and not blogging, a post about Technorati link exchanges would be totally off-topic... Get a number of those posts up there among the regular content that serves the readers, rather than the blogger and an otherwise targeted blog can be diluted to its detriment, right?

By: Mahala

Mahala — Tue, 01 May 2007 12:33:16 +0000

Technorati shows my blog as not having been updated in over 200 days. Whether or not I’m listed in the “Top 100″ is the least of my worries.

By: A Dummy's Response to Technorati Fav Exchange : hackaback

A Dummy's Response to Technorati Fav Exchange : hackaback — Tue, 01 May 2007 11:37:34 +0000

Everyone is talking about technorati favorite exchange, So I thought I should also contribute a bit. Well everyone is using this “Add it to my Technorati Favorites” feature to encourage his/her blog readers.
Well, when I want some information on technorati, Definitely I am not going to search it on the top 100 list of most favorited blogs.
I would rather use search feature.

By: Shaun Carter

Shaun Carter — Tue, 01 May 2007 10:58:58 +0000

I just don’t understand why people would do these kinds of link exchanges. It devalues the service that Technorati provides by artificially inflating the ranking of sites. I only favorite a site if it is a blog I actually like reading… if only everyone made it so simple.

By: Is Technorati useless? : The Blog Columnist

Is Technorati useless? : The Blog Columnist — Tue, 01 May 2007 10:47:10 +0000

[...] Rowse, famous from his blog, Problogger.net, had his say on the matter here and here once it all got heated and started to get [...]

By: Nick Halstead

Nick Halstead — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:43:22 +0000

Thanks for the balanced post Darren (and for the link). I hope as you said we can all continue with just working on great content, I agree a number of people perhaps got a little obsessed with the concept (myself included) so I have started the healing process by releasing some of the source code (what my site is meant to be about!) which hopefully people (mainly programmers) will take an interest in.

By: Keiron

Keiron — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:03:56 +0000

Hi Darren,

Thanks for linking to my post, I agree it sounded like a great idea at the time, and if anybody uses technorati purely to do this, it’s probably not a concern they’ll have, but it certainly messed up my morning cup of coffee with all my blogs aggregated into Technorati!!

By: Duplicate Content Checker

Duplicate Content Checker — Tue, 01 May 2007 06:37:57 +0000

I’ve been pondering on the impact that Technorati has on the blogging community and have seriously questioned its “benefits.” It has been a really good venue for finding helpful information and creating networks among blogging peers. I view it as this really huge club and everyone just wants to be a part of it to be cool and noticed. I don’t see anything wrong with that; I’m just concerned that some may have the tendency to get off-track a little.

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Savvy Affiliate » Blog Archive » Blogging Sources — Tue, 01 May 2007 06:12:39 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 May 2007 05:42:01 +0000

Gee. I missed all of the fun!

Really, though the idea of exchanging favorites is one I hadn’t heard of before this, I came upon this post through my Technorati favorites, which is interesting, since I really only have a handful.

Exchanging favorites is an interesting idea, and I appreciate your posting on it, before I stumbled upon it some other way. I think if I tried it, it would probably be just a waste of time for me, with negligible results

Of course, I don’t get a lot of traffic to any of my blogs since I don’t spend a lot of time trying to get traffic to them. All but one serve simply as a dynamic outlet for the content for the sites they are associated with. Most of my on-line time is spent working on content. That’s what’s important to me.

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 01 May 2007 05:36:24 +0000

I have to admit, I raised my eyebrow at your use of “sad” in the last post. But I also know that one word defines no one.

And as usual Darren, you’ve hit the issue with class, honesty and a well experienced perspective. Something that’s always appreciated.

And should be.

By: Jez

Jez — Tue, 01 May 2007 05:34:01 +0000

I think your over analysing this, no one I have come accross doing this has delusions of grandeur over it.

I did it because I could, it required little effort and I was curious….. it was fun playing with it, and, seing as my blog doesnt make a penny, having fun is what its all about……

By: MathPoints

MathPoints — Tue, 01 May 2007 04:31:14 +0000

Technorati Top Favorited Buzz…

After all, some blogs really benefited from the favorite exchange and some gained nothing but a few “favorite” in technorati. You just have to decide what you want to do and have fun doing it….