Posts Tagged ‘technorati’
Friday, July 13th, 2007
Continuing on with our series of page ranking – here’s another site which I visited and found informative, easy to use as well as understand.
popuri.us, “A tool to check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on its ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc) and more!”
Remember that a domain with the “www.” prefix will show different results than the same domain without it. You should try both.
MorganLighter
Tags: Google, search engine, technorati, web-stats
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
One of the things I’m going to talk about in today’s Traffic Thursdays is how having an open site, or being an open member of a social community, is a good way to get traffic that yields much better results than attempting to game the systems that exists. To the surprise of many, I’m sure, I’m going to start off with some information about Technorati.
Now, you guys probably know that Technorati, formally among one of my favorite lovers, is pretty much in the dog house with me. Technorati is not a web 2.0 utility per se, as the only true user-generated content in it is in WTF.
However, if you can get Technorati to work for you, there are plenty of good networking, traffic and expert-ization opportunties. Since I am not alone among the people who have on-going problems with Technorati, instead of making a premium guide and charging for it, I’m making a free video series on it that will soon be available through our kyte channel in video.
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Tags: blogging, technorati
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
We’re still broken up. But I got a nice letter apologizing for the delay in fixing my problem. Apparently my blog Was indeed flagged for review as I suspected and insisted. After no answers, when I finally blogged about it, my problem was fixed. Coincidence? I doubt it, but that doesn’t mean I think any less of them than I already do.
Sure, anyone who Googles me knows I have a big mouth. But I doubt anyone over there was threatened by the possibility that my yammerings would end up on About.com or in Google News, because I don’t use my influence for evil. (I’m not a saint or anything – just not influential enough to waste my cool points on stuff like that.)
So, yes you can now favorite me. Thanks to Andy Beard for telling me about the problem. And no, I’m not actively participating at Technorati anymore. We’re going to be friends, eventually, but it’s just too little, too late for us to get back together…
Tags: free traffic tips and tools, technorati
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
I know what you expect me to say. You expect me to say “oh, all that tag and ping stuff is rubbish, I taught you that already and if you buy that package it’s rubbish and you’re wasting your money.”
But that’s not what I was going to say at all. And I did teach you about tagging and pinging in 2004 and early 2005.
And I’ve been harping on responsible pinging since then, and I told you repeatedly that abusing pinging would not even bring quality short term traffic, and could get a site banned.
However, having bought the package so I could review it, and see what the fuss was about, I can’t bring myself to say it’s rubbish. Far from it. I actually think it would be useful for a beginner who just can’t wrap their mind around pinging. I couldn’t at first, and if I’d had it, it would have helped me. I think it’s overpriced, and I think that if you should try and figure it out on your own first.
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Tags: blog traffic, boing-boing, tag, tag-and-link, tag-and-ping, tagging, technorati
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Well. If you’re a blogger anyway…. it means yet another way you can increase your blog traffic is by covering the news.
No, it’s not a new concept – I’ve been harping on that for at least two years, as all you regulars know. 
What’s new is that Technorati is helping blogs get featured on AP News sites.
After having the pleasure of witnessing a friend of mine hit the Associated Press newswire last year, it’s great to see that Technorati is going to be partnering with Associated Press member sites. That means that the next time a friend of mine is covered by AP, I can blog about it and possibly appear in one of the links to the stories.
From Technorati’s Weblog Post:
The new service will bring blogger commentary about AP news stories to communities large and small throughout the USA, giving bloggers a voice in trusted local papers throughout the nation. For many news readers, this will be their first exposure to the blogosphere with national, international, business and sports news presented along side links to blogger commentary and perspective.
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Tags: blog traffic, blog-marketing, blog-promotion, business-blogging, driving-traffic-to-web-site, free traffic tips and tools, how-to-increase-web-site-traffic, increase-website-traffic, increased-web-traffic, internet, technology, technorati
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Thursday, April 27th, 2006
Is it me or is Technorati working especially well lately? I have blogs in all different kinds of format, and on all of them, they’ve really been on time these past few weeks, even with Blogger. I mean, I hope I’m not jinxing it or anything, but it seems like they’re doing a great job right now.
Okay. I have to stop and do the rest of this later. The video for Sade’s Cherish the Day is on. Life must come to a screeching halt for four minutes.
*Edit* Okay, I’m back. I was wondering how everyone else is finding Technorati. The next video I’m going to add to the Blog Optimization Package is about tricks to getting more traffic out of Technorati. There’s so much about the site that people don’t notice, or don’t know because it’s not on the FAQ. I think I just have traffic-colored glasses on half the time – stuff that seems obvious to me, cats tell me is some amazing discovery.
I’ll do an abridged version of the video for Traffic Reality too.
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Tags: advertising, increase-traffic, sifry, technorati
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Friday, February 10th, 2006
I read about this in the A Consuming Experience Blog. It’s a GreaseMonkey script that makes it easy to append Technorati tags to your posts if you use Blogger. Install the script, log into Blogger, type up your tags, comma or otherwse separated, publish, done. You can even make it set up your default tags, which I always did by using the default template box under Settings ->Formatting.
This makes it much easier to work with…. If you want to Google it for other user experiences, try Multiple Word Technorati tag creator for Blogger. That’s it’s proper name and it’s now compatible with Firefox 1.5, and Greasemonkey 0.6.4.
Tags: blogger, blogger.com, blogging, firefox, free traffic tips and tools, greasemonkey, tag-tools, tagging, technorati, tool of the day
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Monday, November 21st, 2005
It comes as a surprise to many, but there are many sites out there that are willing to send traffic your way, and you don’t have to trick them or threaten them with the stink eye to get their help.
We’re not talking about search engines and specialized directories yet – we’ll soon come back to that.
First, let’s talk about what I call blog helper sites, for easy reference.
There are all kinds of resources out there for bloggers, you just have to know where to look, and figure out what works.
I tend to shy away from regular blog link exchanges, because despite all the free information, I’m running a commercial site. If you’re running one as well, you may find that regular blog exchanges don’t necessarily work to bring you buying traffic any better than link exchanges bring traffic to your site.
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Tags: blog, blog traffic, blog-resources, blogging, free traffic tips and tools, increase-traffic, increase-visitors, tagging, technorati
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