Comments on: 2000 Bloggers Seems to Have Helped My Technorati Ranking

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:26:21 +0000

I’m sure if Tino ever did anything like this again – which I doubt anyway – he would not include people without asking or inviting them. But surely you get a smidgin of pleasure that you were famous enough to be one of the people he included without their asking?

I’ve read Rose’s post and the comments. As I say, it’s been an education.

Although I do wonder whether Google’s algorithm would punish for incoming links – after all, there will surely always be incoming links that we can’t practically block or control. Outgoing links are another story, of course.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:39:11 +0000

Des, that's my concern, too. I'm part of it, not that I had a choice, I was simply included in the initial 300 Tino seeded the collage with. I have no idea what triggers Google to penalize linkfarm participants, but it clearly won't be a person, just an algorithm:-( Check out the comments to this post for more...

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:15:06 +0000

Yes, I think I’d be hard put to explain the business value of Technorati rankings to anyone. My concern however with all the hooha is that Google may decide to penalise people with links from the various replica sites. Again, I have my own views about Google page rank, but my understanding is that some advertisers take notice of it and a reduction in or complete loss of ranking could affect some business bloggers adversely.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:32:27 +0000

Zoli

As you would know, I have never claimed to be a technical expert in the blogosphere. And that goes too for SEO, ranking, and things like link farms. Your comment, which I saw when I was away at a conference, triggered a little alarm for me. Now that I’m back, I’ve read your post and others and I have mixed feelings. Now here’s what the online marketers like to call the “shocking truth” – I didn’t know whether a link farm was bad. Having read your post and others I see the light. Link farm bad, no link farm good.

First, I joined for fun and then, no doubt naively, I expressed some wonder at what was happening with my Technorati ranking. I noticed and reported that there did not seem to be any material difference in unique visitor numbers. I also noticed that my Google rank seemed not to have changed. So I haven’t been kidding myself on that score.

But now that I’ve been educated by you and others, how should I in future respond when A and B and C listers beg me to vote for their blogs in awards? Is that not artificially inflating status?

And I do find the comments about the top 100 having a “closed shop” interesting. Hadn’t been aware of those allegations, but as a long time student of history and politics, I don’t have a problem contemplating the possibility that yet another group of upright citizens might have started out to do good, finished up doing well and don’t want to share the stage. And my observation, quite unoriginal, is that power and influence are very rarely shared voluntarily or altruistically.

Whatever Tino’s motivation, maybe some people who participated thought, hang this business of the rest of us being lorded over by the self-appointed elite, Let’s shake it up a bit.

Thanks for sharpening my focus on all this stuff. Now I’m going to get back to work

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:36:18 +0000

It helped mine a lot. And now it's being shut down. I don’t think that the 2000 Bloggers meme was such a big deal. I did introduce a number of new bloggers to my blog. Now it’s up to me to keep them interested by writing good content. What I don’t get is this emphasis on the Technorati ranking system in the first place.