However, I have noticed that my ‘blog reactions’ script was causing slow blog page loads for me, so I removed it. I hope that’s temporary too.

http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/technorati-favorites-exchange-fixing-technorati-favorites/

Needless to say, my ranking has plummeted. I was at 780 and by the end of the week will no longer be in the top 1000. I’ve written them to ask what’s up but no one will respond. I’ve wondered if others have had the same experience.

Did you actually read my followup post on Technorati? If not, please click on my name to read it. There is an active discussion going on there.. and I’ll love to hear your comments on all the points I have mentioned in detail. If you would like, you can email me as well to chat about these topics privately.

To say that only Dosh Dosh has benefited from the exchange (in terms of traffic) is factually incorrect. There have been several other blogs which have entered the Top 100 and I’m not even going to go into the traffic/exposure benefits (however minor) which has resulted from interaction between bloggers either through interlinking or conversational blogging on the topic of Technorati favorites.

Nor am I going to delve into the actual development of high quality feedback and innovative suggestions for improving Technorati. If you’ve actually read some of the constructive posts that has been going around, you’ll might understand that this has actually gone beyond just merely ‘gaming’ the system.

http://theblogwhichsaysall.blogspot.com/2007/05/dummys-response-to-technorati-fav.html

As I previously commented, the only person that has really benefited by all of this favorite link exchange meme is Dosh Dosh who formally launched his Technorati Favorite Exchange.

The benefit was not to be in the top 10 of the favorite list, but the traffic that it has generated. Everyone else who jumped on the bandwagon (a little bit guilty here) hasn’t seen a cent of traffic from the “Gaming”.

Here are my points which is similar thats done around blogsphere. I dont blame anybody but here how it goes:

1. Don’t we encourage our friends to subscribe?
2. Don’t we encourage our friends to put comments ?
3. Don’t we encourage to promote topics on each other blogs ?
4. Don’t we encourage link bating ?

There are lot of similar things we do to promote our own blogs.If asking for Technorati Fav Exchange is wrong then everything i said above is wrong.

No offenses but these are just my views and they are strong one’s.

In itself, the top 100 is a great idea. However, as usual, when 1000’s of people look to exploit the system the list becomes flawed.