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Technorati Recovers From Evil Ping Attack

written by John Chow on March 24, 2007

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Well, it looks like Technoranti has recovered from my evil blog ping attack. They have managed to removed all the posts that have been showing up a individuals blogs and re-ranked everybody that saw a huge boost because of it, including myself. I am out of the Top 100. :(

It was very nice to see myself in the Top 100 list, if only for a few days. I need to move up another 52 more spots to get back into the Top 100. Here’s the current rankings of the Top Commentators. Looks like most got their rank pulled back. The reminding blogs can expected to be reset anytime now.

It was fun while it lasted, wasn’t it? I hope that Technorati learns a lesson from this and will make their service better. More coverage of this story can be found at Mark Robinson.

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uncle sha

i'm at rank 35000 if that's any consolation to you .. haha :mrgreen:

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Adam Henningsen

Sad to see that you are back at the above 100 mark, but where you have come with you site is absolutely amazing, I can only dream of such spectacular performance. I am sure with all of this link bait going on that you will reach the 100 mark naturally very soon.

Adam
TheAdambox.com

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Stuart Hannig

I'm going to beat you to the punch John :) Only 88,077 more blogs to get infront of :)

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derrich

Now that would be sweet! :razz:

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derrich

I dropped from 19,1xx to 52,xxx. Wow. What gives?

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Anna

LOL! No, literally, I'm laughing...

It cracked me up when you said "I hope that Technorati learns a lesson from this and will make their service better"... hehe

Actually, I hope so too... I'm not one of your top commenters (far from it) but I was also affected by the error one of my blogs (bloggersfordollars.com)... I havent' checked yet to see if my Technorati has been fixed but I hope it has...

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Chee Kui

At least you have another 52 spots left ;)
You can make it John! You got my support! One favourite from me, ehehe.

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James

Who knows, maybe after this you'll be back in the top 100.

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msdanielle

well i'm glad it got fixed bc i stopped looking at the numbers once they really jumped. but it kinda stung when i looked at it today :wink:

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francesco mapelli

So it's your fault if I've been bumped out of the top 50.000 ??

Sob.

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

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lyndonmaxewell

I guess you might want to blame Technorati for giving you 'false hopes' instead.. :D

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francesco mapelli

It's easier yo blame john!

you know, he's EVIL! ;)

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francesco mapelli

It's easier to blame john!

you know, he's EVIL! ;)

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Bryce

That reminds me, I should start commenting more. From now on, I shall comment on every post! More than once ! :)

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Culture Shiok!

Like this...? :twisted:

It's not easy to comment. You'll just make a fool out of yourself if your comments are no way related to the post.

But what's happening here is that commentators now comment on other commentators' comments.

Welcome to the Johnchow.com Forum! :mrgreen:

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Stuart Hannig

Yup, my rank dropped by 40,000 :(

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Francois Gendron

Heh I guess it's only a matter of a few days before you climb back in the top 100. But anyways, 150 can't be THAT bad. :twisted:

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FayZ

oooh john..u the devil..haha...noop think technorati is the devil now..no worries..you will be back in the game in no time.. :grin:

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Piku

"Well, it looks like Technoranti has"
Isn't it Technorati (without n) ?

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Jack

Oh how the mighty have fallen!

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Jon Lee

Ahh I dropped from 20,000 to 70,000... oh well!

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Culture Shiok!

How does it feel? :twisted:

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Harry L

My question is will this cause a significant setback in traffic on all these affected sites or not?

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Dave

I'm not really sure.

I'm not new to the website field...but I am not up to date on all things blog. So I'm not sure how much traffic you get from being high rated by Technorati.

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lyndonmaxewell

No, the links generated are not related to the traffic. It's just a flaw on the part of technorati anyway. Nothing changed, other than the ranking.

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Dave

Yes, I realize that.

What I'm wondering is what kind of effect being high ranked on Technorati has on your traffic. If any at all...

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lyndonmaxewell

No effect at all. Some people take it as a sense of pride or satisfaction on being popular.

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Saman Sadeghi

I wouldn't say "No effect at all.", people might see the high rank and want to check it out what makes the site so popular....

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Dave

It's possible...I figure it's most likely you have a popular well traffic blog and for that reason it's ranked high in technorati (because you have a lot of backlinks due to your popularity)

Therefore you traffic and popularity is the cause of your high rank in technorati, not the other way around.

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vijay

ohh thanks dave. I never got a boost anyway when everyone got a spike on their rankings.

i really have to learn a lot about blogging and codes. Still dont understand some techie terms.

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Leftblank

rel='nofollow' means that a search engine spider shouldn't count that URL when calculating the importance of the page. If you don't use it and you link to some website that uses blackhat techniques that are discovered, your website might (most likely will) be punished for that as well. When you use Nofollow, that wont be the case, keeping you safe and removing the advantage of spamming your website ;)

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Jane May

All though to get commentators to comment, I would remove that no-follow from the top commentator widget.

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Saman Sadeghi

Very true, free linkbacks are a huge incentive, no matter the rank of the site!

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Dave

Well, with a site the site of John Chow's, you don't need to remove the "no follow" on top commentators. I'm sure having a top commentator spot gets you plenty of traffic as is!

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Saman Sadeghi

Traffic is one thing, but Technorati rank is another!

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Dave

All good things must come to an end :P

I doubt it will be too long before you are back in the top 100.

I'm pretty sure URL's in the comments are rel="nofollow" Vijay.

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Adventures In Money Making

well it was good while it lasted! I wouldn't mind getting that sort of traffic!

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Saman Sadeghi

You can, just concentrate on content and get the word out!

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vijay

i didnt receive any boost in my ranking though... i just made few comments in your blog and i didnt see any new links to my blog on that account... :evil:

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Marc

You had to be in the top 10 commentators list for it to have an effect.

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lyndonmaxewell

Well, looks like it was fun while it lasted. :) Now it's time to properly work our way up there.

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Jane May

Yeah, it felt like we had some time to concentrate on other things since we didn't have to worry about technorati :) But now it's back to the trenches

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Marc

I ignored it altogether knowing it was only temporary. I'm not surprised to see that rank vanish for my blog.

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Jane May

Well, ideally you are always doing what is needed to increase your blogs rankings, but it was nice not having it as the top thing to think of...which it normally isn't, I usually focus on content first.

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Saman Sadeghi

Very true, it's time to really focus on content again.

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Adventures In Money Making

you still got a good boost from the traffic

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Dinner

Damn, that's sucky. I'm sure you'll be able to make it back to the top 100 again though.

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Ask a question

I've just noticed, they also Downgraded your ReviewMe price... at list you've got to earn some money when it was 500.. i wounder what will be This Month revenue with all those crazy things happened to you.

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Wendy Piersall

I was WONDERING why the heck my rank went UP today and not down! :cry:

I thought they might have caught onto your evil ways. What a bummer! :sad:

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Jane May

I know it! But I guess John is above the radar any way, so it was just a matter of time :)

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