Technorati, one of the most heavily used data in the blogosphere. Bloggers usually use Technorati to measure how many links point to their blogs. I am not sure how many of us lose sleep on seeing the number not increasing. We understand that there is no way we can get it perfect but do we know how accurate they are?
David Dalka from Chicago points out that Consumerist.com cannot be found in Technorati, arguably one of the most popular and heavily weighted blog directory. They have written to Technorati and,
They’ve in fact added his blog - but Technorati has some programming glitch that keeps dropping his blog out of their index shortly thereafter no matter how many times they add it back. Based on that brief glimpse that Ben and I saw, The Consumerist was on the verge of becoming a Technorati 100 blog.
If Technorati cannot get one of the most popular blog to work, do we know how many millions small blogs are getting correct results shown? The short answer is No. People have found that there are many links that didn't reported by Technorati and many times they manually pinging the links to them.
Technorati is still the best of its kind out there but it is far from perfect. Seth Godin doesn't check his rank, but maybe he will start doing so when it is fixed and show that it is meaningful to him.
3 comments:
I definitely agree with you on the point that if they can't get a bigger name blog to stay in their database how do we know everything is working properly?
There's always room for improvements in any website :D
Technorati is far to easy to game as well. I'm not sure which is easier to game, Technorati or Alexa.
I think Technorati is probably easier to game.
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