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Top Commentators See Huge Technorati Boost

written by John Chow on March 17, 2007

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If you’re a top commentator on this blog, you may have experienced a huge boost in your Technorati ranking today. This boost came about because Technorati is ranking my posts as individual blogs.

Normally when another blog links to you, it shows up on Technorati as one blog link. However, because Technorati thinks over 500 of my blog posts are actually blogs, all the Top Commentators suddenly picked up hundreds of blog links overnight.

The boost to some of the Top Commentators has been massive. Here are their current ranking at the time of this post.

Technorati still has me frozen with 14,152 links from 2,405 blogs. However, news links to and from my blog are still being counted so I can still affect the rankings of blogs I link to. While Technorati has locked me at 14,152 links, the actual number is 59,228 links from who knows how many blogs. Hopefully, Technorati will unfreeze me soon so I can join the Top 100.

In the mean time, you can consider your huge Technorati increase as another perk for being a Top Commentator. I hope that this will help you make more money online.

I had to get that “make money online” in this post somehow! :twisted:

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Posting for rank increase. No other purpose.

That's nutty! This stuff is really informative.

Weeellll, thats me back to No. 1 for an hour or two!!!

Wow thats awesome! Perhaps I should actually post some comments here hey!

Just notice that my Technorati Ranking has jumped up to 36,166. This must be a combination of the back link from batch #35, top commentators and my going out to visit more blogs from this community. I know, at the end, the content is the most important thing. You will have a repeated visitors if your content is good.

Darn I was on teh top commentators list last month but I missed out on this one.. :(

Its on a rolling week, you dont have to wait till the end of the month...

Just remember, skewing with these technorati rankings is like lying about your score in golf--you're just cheating yourself in the long run.

Im not cheating anything, I wanted to see what the top commentors links were worth in terms of traffic, the technorati boost is irrelivant to be, I dont think its got me any more visits,

Whenever your site has something like this happen to you, it's got to be soo good. Because all of a sudan there's tons of comments on your blog.

Most of my comments came from sites I visited or commented on myself, I dont think ive had a single comment out of the blue yet...

The myBlog widget is good, you can track back your visitors, comment on their site, or vice versa if they see you visit them.

I'm starting to notice a trend with these top commentators blogs.

They now all have a technorati blog rank on their sidebar

Not mine, just an "Add to favorites" :-)

I've been reading this blog for sometime now but mostly as a lurker. This is my first comment and you can expect more comments in the coming days XD

This is pretty impressive. I'm going to have to comment here more often. :razz:

That's quite insane! How come Technocrati can actually think that blog posts are actually blogs??!!

I already go my massive boost the last time you did this. So I got a boost this time around, but not quite as big I think.

Just my luck...this post comes a day after I fall off the top ten :evil:

Yeah, I woke up this morning off the list and thought I'd missed out, but I just slipped in ;)

does this have an effect on people who are necessarily on the top commentators list?

i'm going to do some research on this and find out whats behind this

this is interesting how this has happened. But this hasen't just happened to john's blog, it's happend to many

I guess I need to start posting more.

It's a vicious cycle! Now I'm scared to fall off! :evil:

That is a point, once you get used to the blessings it would be hard to give them up :-)

John will probably ban me now - but just making a point.

That would be wrong.

Now people - don't abuse the comments list just to get ahead in Technorati.

I see lyndonmaxewell just took the lead away from Saman (he must be away or something).

And I just took it from Lyndon, in 10 mins it will be someone else, madness!!!

I got 300 more backlinks when I briefly hit the Tom Commentators list :).

seriously . . .i don't know how long the backlinks thing is going to last . . . I agree with Mark Robinson that the comments are now going to get really crazy with the new incentive.

yeah, no kidding...the comments are getting crazy!!!

Not a new incentive, has been like this for ages...

Evidently, I don't comment enough. :oops:

Could you tell us how you got technorati to count each post as a seperate blog?

I don't think John will know. The only fellas who can explain this thing would be Technorati themselves, since they are the ones that are sorting these things out.

John your evilness never ceases to amaze me :wink:

If you ever had that dream where you walk along the street and find money under leaves in the gutter, and then wake up penniless, you will get an idea of how I feel about Technorati rankings.

If Technorati can step up to the plate and make some sense of the nonsense, then the rank manipulation going on has not been in vain. If not, as someone commented earlier, Technorati ranking is yet another decent idea turned into a puddle in the corner..

That's it, I'm hiring one of my Korea kids to post comments all day on this blog. The top commenter spot will beeee minnneee!!!

hahahhaa, that's actually a good idea

And all I wanted was a free pen....

I guess I should comment more often! :twisted:

me too! :twisted: hahahaha :twisted:

Just don't spam guys!

good!

is a trick or is a Technorati bug?