7 Effective Ways To Increase Your Technorati Authority

I don't know if you have ever even experimented with Technorati, but if you did you would have noticed that is isn't just links within content that are counted.

 

Experimenting? I think you are seeing things. I do regular deep linking via comments to individual posts that I have, and have not seen any attribution for those links at Technorati.

Now if you have come across some that have, then post them so we can see that what you say is true.

The thing is, if it were just that easy, then everyone and their dog's blog would have high authority rankings at Technorati. N'est pas?

 

You made it out that only links in the feed counted, whereas in reality links within the blogroll, sidebar and footer are also counted.

Proof - http://technorati.com/blogs/otooo.com

 

Looks like you may have found a loophole in the system. The blog you cited above is hammering away at blogs using the Top Commentator plugin, and therefore gaining a link on the home page of those blogs. Still, the comments themselves are not giving you the 'blog reaction' necessary to gain authority with, which is what we were discussing earlier.

IMO, the Top Commentator plugin for WP, while a nice idea, is probably one of the more ill-conceived dofollow plugins that a blog owner can install. It is evident from some of the comments made by otoo, that he is just out there for the link and his comments are disingenuous. This is one of the downfalls for that plugin, it gets a ton of comments from people named 'SEO Freddy' and the like.

So I suppose in some respect you may be right about commenting eventually leading to an authority bump. Be my guest and comment on as many blogs using the TC plugin as you can, and as many comments as necessary to get on that list - rinse, and repeat every six months. Or at least until Technorati closes that loophole.

 

Hmmm, maybe you should add some quality, unique and interesting conetnt. And then maybe go after some quality links. Then watch your rankings and trust value go up.

 

usually i use technorati exchange
it will increase ur technorati

 

Hey... that's my blog you're talking about and me you're insulting.

I admit, I like to be in the top commentator, but I don't just post spammy little "good post" comments on hundreds of posts to get there. You see, I enjoy reading all of the blogs that I can and because I read them, I also like to not be a lurker and comment.

For example, the other day I posted like a 250 word comment on a post made by StandOutBlogger - that was almost longer than the post itself.

Guess what - blog commenting, if you might not have heard, is probably the best promotion strategy for a blog.

I'm just going to leave it at this because I don't wanna get anymore infractions

 

Don't let an infraction stop you!

I am sorry if I sounded insulting, but I call them the way I see them. It was obvious from the 'tale of the tape' at Technorati that you are targetting blogs with the Top Commentator plugin, of which you admitted to above.

And yes, I am fully aware that blog commenting makes for a good promotional strategy. But your single focus on those types of blogs severely limit your exposure. If you were truly sincere about promoting your blog, you would be putting just as much effort in your commenting on blogs of higher quality regardless of which plugin they were using, even nofollow blogs of the higher profiled bloggers.

You even go as far as touting the benefits of getting backlinks by using blogs with the TC plugin, and publish a list of blogs sorted by PR. Sorted by PR? As if that has any real benefit of gaining top search positioning, it shows your lack of real world knowledge in link building in general and propagates more endless spam from your unwitting (and duped) readers.

I make no point in hiding the fact that people such as yourself just give rub me the wrong way. If you find this insulting, well, the shoe must fit and I hope it is one size too small quite frankly.

Since this topic WAS about boosting your Technorati Authority, I guess I should stay on topic and congratulate you for accomplishing the part in regards to commenting will actually give you a bump. You have demonstrated that Technorati does have a small flaw in their algorithm when they do their calculations. It is my hope that they close the hole, because it is dis-service for searchers.

 

I simply love this thread. However, I will love it more someone here can really prove whether blog comments can actually help us increase out Technorati rankings.

I have not been to their site for quite some time after reaching the maximum limit of "fave me" but unfortunately, it has not been helpful to my blogs so far.

 

@Guardian - Well, it appears that the TC plugin mentioned earlier will give you a bump, however, that is a short term bump that needs to be dealt with everyday in order to maintain it. Once you drop off of your constant commenting barrage in all of those blogs, then there goes the authority. You have not made any real long-lasting links at all, and those links on the blogs you commented on will disappear as quickly as they appeared. That is not what I would call 'link building', and if anyone characterizes it as such is out of touch with reality.

Fads like the Technorati Fave Train are just as fleeting. The only people who benefited from that fiasco was the originator of the idea, which I do believe came from DoshDosh. It was an original idea that gained hundreds, if not thousands, of inbound one-way links which are still out there today. Everyone trying to jump on that train with him are either running a very distant second, or not placing at all. This proves that true link building comes from innovative ideas that weather the test of time, and not regurgitated, quick, easy, get link rich schemes that some of these blogs are doing.

 

I think this one is convincing, Dodger. But I love Maki of DoshDosh, as he makes his long posts inviting to read until the end.

Rep added for that.

By the way, I prefer being called Angel rather than Guardian...lol!

 

Nice thread. I don't use WordPress, but I do know about the top commenter plugin and its DoFollow tag. I just don't understand though, wouldn't the blog owner kinda figure out that SEO Freddy or whomever was spamming (even if they left intelligent comments) and not approve them eventually? I know I would.

Technorati is an interesting one. I've not given it much thought, simply because for my niches it is not worth much. I thought it was only if a link was in the content of a post that it gave you a boost, but apparently it can be in the sidebar as well. I'll have to think about this some more....

 

Some of the bloggers using DoFollow and top commentator plugins care only about the number of comments so anything is good, spam or not. Some people are just too obsessed with blog comments and blog activity I couldn't care less if someone comments on my articles or not if they make me sales every day.

 

I think the Lucia plugin for WP is probably about as good as you can get if you want to reward your commenters. It allows you to selectively turn it on for some, and off for others. But as you can tell from the tenor of my previous posts, I just hate that TC plugin with a passion and for some of the reasons that Zexy just mentioned.

However, not all bloggers allowing DoFollow links in comments are doing it just to up-the-comments. They did it as a protest against the Big 3 for imposing their will onto us, and getting the powers to be for the blogging software developers to sound that trumpet too. It was meant to control spam, but history is showing that it is doing anything but that.

Now we have the maverick bloggers with nothing but goodwill in their hearts getting bombarded because of some list that a self-professed link building guru is distributing. Other gurus regurgitate the lists, add their blogs to it, and now it is a game to see who's list is bigger. No verification of the links, just bigger lists and once you are on on it, you never get off it.

 

From my experience spammers care not if your blog is dofollow or not, they still spam it all the same. Akismet does a very good job of blocking spam for me though.

 

I wasn't talking about spambots. I was talking about human spammers who use dofollow lists, and that includes lists for the TC plugin as well.

But if you are referring to the people who publish the lists without double-checking to see if the sites are still dofollow or not, then okay, you are right to call them spammers. I will agree with that.

 

Dodger, you often offer tips, tricks, advice and criticism on this forum, do you have any personal projects that would make the average person step back and say, "Hey, this guy knows what he is talking about"?

 

Currently most of my time is consumed maintaining a Yahoo Store and its three feeder sites. Since people are obsessed with PR, the YStore used to be a 5 last year and now it is a 4. I have not had time to pursue links as aggressively as I did in the past, but maybe that was the cause of it. Who is to say.

Anyone who knows me, knows what I do. If you are curious enough, you can figure it out too. But you will notice that I do not go around linking to those sites all over forums either. What is the point to do so, eh? The store is doing well in SERPs across the big 3, and depending on pricing, it does well in Product search at Google and of course Yahoo Shopping as well.

All I know are a few things, what respected individuals say on some of these subjects, personal observations, and what the sales figures say in the Store Manager at the end of the day. And yes, the sales are good considering the type of products I promote which get stiff competition from the likes of eBay, Amazon, and Drugstore.com

My criticism is always constructive, or I would think it to be. Sometimes it rubs people the wrong way. I am not here for a popularity contest. I am here to knock em over the head and wake them up to a few things.

But if you want to see an example of how writing effective articles will get you backlinks from the likes of Andy Beal, InsideGoogle, Axandra (and even some Russian blogs, woot) then look at this. I was one of the antagonizers in the Slurp threads at WPW back in 2004, somebody had to knock them into line ... but apparently their bot is still a little screwy, over-aggressive and pages are slow to be indexed.

Another article which ranks well, and was linked to so often that it actually has more PR than the homepage.

Dude, blogging is hard work. I burned out on it. Never assume that my dead blog with its declining weight means that I do not know what I am talking about.

BTW, that blog has comment moderation turned on. It is an FTP Blogger blog, so they take care of all the botspam. It is still getting a lot of visitors and I am deleting comment spam like nobody's business just because it wound up on a DoFollow list somewhere. Actually that blog started out to be a project in PHP and what I could do with it in combination with Blogger.

 

Thanks for taking the time to post a lengthy reply, I understand that we all have our own projects that we would prefer to go unknown. I hope you don't think my reply was an attack in anyway,I was just looking to hear about your background.

 

You are welcome. And no, I did not take it as an attack. We are in a discussion!

BTW, I still am not seeing any 'blog reactions' via regular commenting. If you have a link to somebody getting a reaction from a single blog post comment area, fire away. You may want to update your posts to reflect that as well. I noticed another post of yours that referenced that notion.