Comments on: What Exactly Is the Deal with Technorati? http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/what-exactly-is-the-deal-with-technorati/ falling indelibly into the past Fri, 16 May 2008 21:11:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Planned Obsolescence » Blog Archive » Former Students Make Good http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/what-exactly-is-the-deal-with-technorati/#comment-2409 Planned Obsolescence » Blog Archive » Former Students Make Good Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:24:25 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=119#comment-2409 [...] What Exactly Is the Deal with Technorati? Ridiculous Question I Should Have Long Since Learned the Answer To [...] [...] What Exactly Is the Deal with Technorati? Ridiculous Question I Should Have Long Since Learned the Answer To [...]

]]> By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/what-exactly-is-the-deal-with-technorati/#comment-243 KF Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:45:24 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=119#comment-243 <p>Actually, since the time of this post, I discovered that <a href="http://www.technorati.com/help/faq.html#linkcount" rel="nofollow">technorati’s FAQ</a> covers this issue:  they only consider links “created” in the last 180 days.  Depending on your blogging system, however, links such as those in blogrolls might get “created” each time you post.  Or might not.  But in any case, I apparently had 15 blogs that (1) had not been updated or (2) had not linked to me in 180 days.  (Or, as Jeremy notes, some could have been splogs.  But I thought 15 seemed high for it just to have been that.) </p> Actually, since the time of this post, I discovered that technorati’s FAQ covers this issue:  they only consider links “created” in the last 180 days.  Depending on your blogging system, however, links such as those in blogrolls might get “created” each time you post.  Or might not.  But in any case, I apparently had 15 blogs that (1) had not been updated or (2) had not linked to me in 180 days.  (Or, as Jeremy notes, some could have been splogs.  But I thought 15 seemed high for it just to have been that.)

]]> By: jvance http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/what-exactly-is-the-deal-with-technorati/#comment-242 jvance Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:40:05 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=119#comment-242 <p>My guess? If they wanted to make a smart algorithm, they might have set a time limit that expired links when a blog hadn’t been updated in, say, a month or year or something. </p> My guess? If they wanted to make a smart algorithm, they might have set a time limit that expired links when a blog hadn’t been updated in, say, a month or year or something.

]]> By: liz http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/what-exactly-is-the-deal-with-technorati/#comment-241 liz Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:33:34 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=119#comment-241 <p>Sweet...we’ll be out of the millions in no time! </p> <p> And yeah, I’m totally already there with the obsessive stats-watching.  I first saw the new post through a referral statistic on sitemeter. :) </p> Sweet…we’ll be out of the millions in no time!

And yeah, I’m totally already there with the obsessive stats-watching.  I first saw the new post through a referral statistic on sitemeter. :)

]]> By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/what-exactly-is-the-deal-with-technorati/#comment-240 KF Sat, 09 Sep 2006 21:03:45 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=119#comment-240 <p>"You,” meaning, of course, Liz. </p> “You,” meaning, of course, Liz.

]]> By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/what-exactly-is-the-deal-with-technorati/#comment-239 KF Sat, 09 Sep 2006 21:03:07 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=119#comment-239 <p>Heh.  By adding you to my blogroll, I have apparently single-keyboardedly raised to you 1,093,479.  Just wait until the new post gets crawled.  Soon, your traffic will increase and you’ll wind up obsessively stats-watching like… some other people I know. </p> <p> Ahem. </p> Heh.  By adding you to my blogroll, I have apparently single-keyboardedly raised to you 1,093,479.  Just wait until the new post gets crawled.  Soon, your traffic will increase and you’ll wind up obsessively stats-watching like… some other people I know.

Ahem.

]]> By: jeremy hunsinger http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/what-exactly-is-the-deal-with-technorati/#comment-238 jeremy hunsinger Sat, 09 Sep 2006 21:01:32 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=119#comment-238 <p>they were likely just culling the splogs. </p> they were likely just culling the splogs.

]]> By: liz http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/what-exactly-is-the-deal-with-technorati/#comment-237 liz Sat, 09 Sep 2006 19:31:52 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=119#comment-237 <p>Hmm...that’s pretty mysterious. </p> <p> However, sitting from a nice, solid rank of 1,574,717ish, I don’t think I’m in a position to offer advice.  Except that please, like you could NOT pay attention to that stuff! </p> Hmm…that’s pretty mysterious.

However, sitting from a nice, solid rank of 1,574,717ish, I don’t think I’m in a position to offer advice.  Except that please, like you could NOT pay attention to that stuff!

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