How is Technorati Authority calculated? * Authority is calculated based on a site’s linking behavior, categorization and other associated data over a short, finite period of time. A site’s authority may rapidly rise and fall depending on what the blogosphere is discussing at the moment, and how often a site produces content being referenced by other sites. * The new Authority calculation differs from the past version, which measured linking behavior over a longer 6 month timeframe. Please note that links in blogrolls don’t count towards Authority, as they are not indicative of interest in relevant content; we stopped including blogroll links in August 2008. * Authority is on a scale of 0-1000. 1000 is the highest possible authority. Read more: http://technorati.com/what-is-technorati-authority/#ixzz1EDqbiVeM
I have two very well-received blogs, and I can't seem to get anywhere with Technorati...the blog stagnated for months in the approval process and then finally returned a crpytic error message that didn't give me any way to fix or resolve the problem. They didn't respond to my email to support asking them how I could resolve the issue. As far as I'm concerned, based on my experience, submitting your blog to Technorati is useless.