Review My Blog – 18th Batch

Hey John, what is technorati all about?

After reviewing your site, the ranking went up 30,000, ie according to technorati, I guess my blog's value to internet users went up 25%? Cool bragging rights and all, but I hate to say that the traffic from John Chow dot com has so far been underwhelming.

I don't wish to sound ungrateful, but it is a bit perplexing. The thing is, a couple of weeks ago I did a review of My Extra Life radio podcast. They mentioned it on their blog and sent me several hundred visitors . Since then my traffic has consolidated maybe 5% higher, and my Technorati rank went up, but not by much, which sounds about right - ie the fall out of the review was an extra link or two from a PR5 site, a bit more exposure and a marginal amount of constant extra traffic.

Compared to that ELR review, I don't see how my review for John Chow has contributed much extra to the value of my blog, or improved the internet. Less than 100 folks have visited, so far! Despite that small short term improvement, however, according technorati I am a god in my own lunchtime compared to a couple of days ago.

What do you read from the results of the two reviews I wrote? Should i be skeptical of technorati? Is technorati really a meaningful gage of anything useful apart from bragging rights? Is the long term traffic from your site somehow going to justify this 30,000 higher ranking now? Thanks.

Ed

This is a really great idea, and I might just have to take you up on it. At any rate, I love this site and I've become something of an addict.

Thanks for all the tips, and keep up the good work!

This is just amazing... I think I'm going to start an "evil" review linking scheme soon. Any tips on how to best pull that off - or should we expect the eBook "How to Get Other People to Review Your Blog" soon? ;)

I would never have imagined that you would end up with such and endless well of people reviewing your site. I applaud your foresight. Great viral marketing.

Dam thats a lot of reviews! I figured they'd start slowing down, but they don't appear to be!

So much reviews. GREAT

Dude, this is great and all. But seriously it's getting a little bit less interesting then it was in the beginning.

But if you keep getting them, why complain?

John Chow is ready for anything!

John, first of all, congrats for your amazing work!
Now let’s do some math:
Your blog is currently #445 on Technorati’s rank, with 1837 blogs links.
Your goal is to reach rank #100: today’s Techorati #100 Blog is Perez Hilton with 5210 links.
That’s a 3,373 links difference, let say 3,400.
Are you ready to post 340 Review Me posts at JC.com to reach your goal?
;-)

Thanks for posting the backlink. Maybe you should start a count-downer ticker and start taking bets on when you will be number 1 on Technorati. You already went up 9 spots between my post submission and LaPlana's.