Banned from the Technorati Top 100? Does Technorati hand edit out sites they don’t want in their top 100?
I happened upon a blog post by Patrick Altoft of http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/, dated Dec. 2007. He was talking about sites that belong in the Technorati Top 100 but have been “removed from the list.” Manually. Since the post was 6 months old, I decided to check current numbers.
From what I can see, TWO of the sites Patrick referred to should be in the top 5.
Alex King, creator of the “Share This” social bookmarkting plugin, has higher technorati authority than the #1 “authority” site - but isn’t listed.
PhotoMatt, aka Matthew Mullenweg, is the founding developer of Wordpress. I’m sure a lot of the top bloggers appreciate what his baby has done for them. How sad that he’s not allowed to appear in the top 5 despite his sufficiently high technorati authority.
So while the blogging community enjoys traffic and profit that comes from the wordpress platform that is Matt’s baby, and enjoys more exposure from the social network community through the “share this” plugin Alex created - Alex and Matt clearly are not welcome in the Technorati Top 100. And that sucks.
Patrick’s article did two things for me. I found a new blog that I’ll be reading regularly (his) and it opened my eyes to what’s happening at Technorati. I think I’ll head over and see how these two Wordpress heavyweights fare in the other social networks. Watch for an update.
If you think Alex and Matt should not be edited out of the Technorati Top 100, please link to this article and help pass the word among bloggers. Thanks!
the nerves of these people eh. ditch technorati folks..maybe matt can come up with a better blog engine and blast technoretardi out of the water. there should be no room for favoritism on the internet.
(P.S. I know how you feel Matt, my site was removed from the site for no reason as well)
Sorry to hear you were removed, too.
I don’t think people need to ditch technorati… but I do think that if the blogging community makes noise about stuff like this, we may be able to make a difference. One voice isn’t very big. A lot of voices speaking up together is harder to ignore.
They apparently have run into huge scaling problems. The index is always way behind, and I find the results for this site to be useless most of the time.
We generally tell all our customers to think of commenting on other relevent blogs
as a way of showing another blog’s audience how much they know/ how interesting they are.
So this new audience will click on the link back to their blog.
This is another method of driving traffic to your site and entices people to write really well thought out comments,
instead of junk to get ranked higher on search engines…
nice post, hope you will going on.
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