Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Technorati Adds A Little Ego Stroking To Blog Profiles

I was just browsing Technorati and noticed a new badge sitting next to my blog rank, identifying it as a top 5k blog. Technorati seem to love making these minor changes and not letting anyone know about it.
Previously only blogs in the top 100 received this badge but now it looks like 10k is […]

Monday, May 28th, 2007

You Might Be A Spammer And Not Even Know It

As you may have noticed Technorati is currently showing zero fans/favourites for all blogs. In all likelihood it’s a minor glitch but Amit Agarwal from Digital Inspiration has a different take on the situation.
This is what he had to say:
Big brother Technorati has finally stepped in to prevent spammers from increasing their Technorati […]

Friday, April 13th, 2007

Technorati Acquires Social Publishing Company - They Should Be Thinking Bigger

David Sifry, the founder and CEO of Technorati has announced on his blog the acquisition of Personal Bee, a social publishing company.
This is what he has to say about them.
Personal Bee is a media collection platform that enables the each of us to curate and publish our own personal sites around topics, issues, or […]

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Technorati May Not Be A Dead End After All

DoshDosh has done a little experiment which involved using Technorati’s Where’s The Fire (WTF) blurbs to try to generate traffic. After the discussion that was had in this post the results may not be what you expect.
Is Technorati WTF a social website you should use to promote your blog and content? My answer to […]

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

3 Steps To Getting Technorati Traffic - If You Want It

It’s been a week now since I wrote about wanting to get more traffic from Technorati. I have managed to get some hits but the numbers are nothing to write home about.
In the past week I’ve had about 50 hits from Technorati. The month prior I received maybe the odd hit once a fortnight, […]

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Six Effective Ways To Build Backlinks

Building quality backlinks is an important step in the development of your blog, or any type of website for that matter.
It can be a boring and time consuming process but the success or failure of a site can depend on it.
What is a backlink?A backlink is a link from another website to yours.
Why do I need backlinks?Backlinks […]

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

Technorati - What Have You Done For Me Lately?

In a word: Nothing.
But that’s going to change.
I’ve read over and over again on numerous sites how Technorati is the Google of blogs. Is this really the case? In my experience, not so much. So far I’ve seen about two hits from a Technorati search, compared to the bucketload of hits I’ve been getting from […]

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

Blogging is harder than you think

I should qualify that statement. Successful blogging is harder than you think.
And not as fun either.
I could probably write over 50 posts a day if I had to, but the content would be hollow and unimaginative, and no one would want to read it. On the other hand I might be able to write one well […]

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

My blogging progress

I thought I’d do an update on the blog and how it’s been doing.
It’s only been a couple of weeks now since I started to really work hard on this blog and I think that I’m starting to make some progress.

My Technorati rank has jumped from the millions to 107,573.
I’m starting to see some traffic from google. […]

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