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Ok, I get the fact that technorati has undergone some massive growth lately, but..
.. over a month of the same error day in, day out? I don’t think so Jane! Surely I’m not the only one to notice the abysmal performance of late?
Ed Kholer over at Technology Evangelist writes:
“It doesn’t take long to figure out that a blog’s ranking is directly tied to the number of links and unique sites that link back to the blog… Knowing that, what can be done to make your site rank higher? The most obvious strategy is to create interesting content on your site that’s worth linking to. Great. But what should you do when Technorati doesn’t register the hard earned links you’ve earned?”
A great little article on helping Technorati to help itself (and others, by proxy). Ed goes on to suggest “pinging” technorati on behalf of a linkee to your blog is a good idea. There are, however, a couple of points I would like to make on this, particularly as I believe it’s a flawed idea. Why? Read on..
