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By: Mitch Joel - Twist Image

Mitch Joel - Twist Image — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:05:17 +0000

…and still no resolve. I guess we’ll all have to keep hitting that refresh button and hope for the best.

By: Mack Collier

Mack Collier — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:12:35 +0000

Since I’ve been basing the Top 25 on TRati for a year or so, I’ve followed how Technorati tracks a lot of blogs.

The rankings do tend to fluctuate early and often. The best way to use it is to watch how it trends over time. The earlier 1,800 rank was no doubt a hiccup.

As for authority, the problem is that some blogs are rarely updated. Church of the Customer literally hasn’t been updated in months. I can’t remember if they have been updated this year, actually.

Keep in mind that Technorati also doesn’t track links to your blog from Twitter. But on the flipside, it does track links to your Twitter account. Chris here’s the link for yours:

http://www.technorati.com/blogs/www.twitter.com%2Fchrisbrogan?reactions

By: Mitch

Mitch — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:12:01 +0000

At least most of you seem to have a Technorati ranking. I have none, and it’s telling me my authority for my blogs is an 8 for one and a six for the other. Not good when ooe considers one of my blogs has been up for four years now. I will say, though, that I just joined it last year, but that then tells me that your blog only matters if you join them, kind of like Alexa.

By: Greg Verdino

Greg Verdino — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:03:43 +0000

To further complicate matters, it seems like T’rati goes through cycles during which they just flat out don’t reflect new links in certain blogs’ authority numbers. Two weeks ago, I was adding links and gaining “authority” – this week I’m still adding links but my authority number and ranking both seem to be on the decline (e.g., T’rati is dropping off my old links without adding in the new, or so it would seem.)

There is no way to even predict how Technorati will behave anymore – but like you, I still keep an eye on the numbers. Old habits die hard.

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:06:59 +0000

I wouldn’t obsess about it. There are plenty of other things to worry about in the big scheme of things.

By: Brad Levinson

Brad Levinson — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:28:54 +0000

I’ve mourned the loss of Technorati long ago. Used to be a daily user, but I realized around 5 months ago that the rankings are now worthless, there is no method to its madness, and there is no validity at all.

I now use a combo of 5 or so metrics in order to determine a blog’s “authority,” with Technorati merely “assisting” me in blog discovery.

By: chrisbrogan

chrisbrogan — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:54:39 +0000

To answer one of the questions, I'm not sure the measure, but it's closer to Penn's answer. (My esteemed PodCamp colleague, Christopher S. Penn , that is). In the end, the metrics you need to track are results. But will the web ever come up with a tool that gives us at least a *little* bit of comfort? Where's the FDIC for the web?

By: mahdi yusuf

mahdi yusuf — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:40:11 +0000

I have noticed that the authority jumps around, alot! Once i got a rank of zero meaning i was the most discussed site ever according to them! I view technorati as a discussion site rather than a traffic site but there is an obvious correlation between the two.