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Top Commentators See Huge Technorati Boost

written by John Chow on March 17, 2007

How one lazy bum made $176,697.50

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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{ 253 comments }

Johnny_Cash March 17, 2007 at 9:00 pm

Not only top commentator. People in your review batch also got huge technorati boost too!

Alex March 17, 2007 at 9:23 pm

Well, I didn’t get a huge boost :sad:

Leftblank March 18, 2007 at 1:47 am

Better luck next time (or in a while, the Technorati spiders tend to recrawl older posts if you wait long enough)

Culture Shiok! March 23, 2007 at 9:54 am

I think Technorati already stopped counting John’s posts as individual blogs. I didn’t get any “huge” boost.

Jeff March 27, 2007 at 12:37 am

Wish I could have been on the front page at that time :) I see that problem has been fixed now

Wild Bluff Media March 18, 2007 at 7:09 am

I didn’t get a huge boost from the review batch, but as John pointed out I’m now at 2,432 today, down from 90,000 on Friday. That’s a massive leap! :shock:

HMTKSteve March 18, 2007 at 7:35 am

That is a huge leap! I can only make small steps now.

Zach March 18, 2007 at 10:12 am

just keep posting, it’ll never hurt

Marc March 18, 2007 at 10:56 am

That’s ok Steve, nothing wrong with being so close to the top ;)

Saman Sadeghi March 18, 2007 at 1:20 pm

Technorati has been counting John’s pages as separate blogs for a while now!

Zach March 18, 2007 at 4:36 pm

I’m very interested in how this works, because i know a few other sites that have with ‘problem’

Jez March 19, 2007 at 1:02 am

Its technorati that have the ‘problem’, this could ruin things for them….

Culture Shiok! March 20, 2007 at 5:58 am

Mark Robinson’s “Under 500 in an hour” is so tempting…. :mrgreen:

simon March 17, 2007 at 9:28 pm

I didn’t get huge boot but got better technorati rank.

Aris March 17, 2007 at 9:42 pm

This morning Saman was talking about crossing the 7K line. Wouw, now is lower than 2K? You’re really evil John. :-) Congrats for Saman. I could not post the comments this morning. I have been pushed down by others. Now, I need to climb it again.

Matthew March 18, 2007 at 12:04 am

definitely a great boost then

HMTKSteve March 18, 2007 at 4:55 am

I’m in the lead! I’m in the lead!

I just can’t quit you John!

Mark Robinson March 18, 2007 at 5:53 am

I sense some competition coming!

Zach March 18, 2007 at 10:07 am

i wonder how many other sites are doing this

Marc March 18, 2007 at 10:58 am

You sense come coming?????

It’s already significantly more competitive than it was, just in February.

Saman Sadeghi March 18, 2007 at 1:21 pm

It seems like my rank is increasing by 6k every day!

Jez March 19, 2007 at 3:51 am

So youll be in negative figures soon then :-)

Jez March 19, 2007 at 1:04 am

The thing is it just looks too bogus when you get a ridiculous figure like that, Ive just started commenting from another URL as I dont want a stupid ranking on one blog, and nothing on the other!

Jez March 19, 2007 at 5:07 am

Its tough at the top, I dont know how far Lyndon and Samon would go with this, i.e. if you knocked them off the top how far they would go to get back up again!!

Its already pretty crazy!

simon March 17, 2007 at 11:06 pm

:mrgreen:
Now I see the boost. My blog/s rank is
# Rank: 2,356 (1,899 links from 826 blogs)

So crazy!! :twisted:

lyndonmaxewell March 17, 2007 at 11:42 pm

That’s definitely crazy! A big change overnight, that’s all I can say :shock:

Mark Robinson March 18, 2007 at 6:01 am

It does give a real sense of giddiness – even though I know it’s bogus.

wildbluff_matt March 18, 2007 at 7:10 am

Yeah, I was wondering if there’s any actual benefit in SE’s regarding having a better Techno ranking. Like do they also see that you have more links coming to you? :?:

Marc March 18, 2007 at 11:03 am

Well the Technorati rank means nothing to the SEs. The SEs also treat a page as a page. The boost here comes from Technorati not understanding what to do with John’s pages.

While it won’t help with SEs, it can help with certain advertising programs over the short term.

wildbluff_matt March 18, 2007 at 11:09 am

Good to know. Thanks.

Saman Sadeghi March 18, 2007 at 1:23 pm

It may not help SE’s but traffic has definitely increased!

carl March 18, 2007 at 5:59 am

wow! I hope I can be in the top commentators so i can get that boost!! :twisted:

Jez March 19, 2007 at 5:08 am

Its good fun, but will be short lived I think!!

Jez March 19, 2007 at 1:05 am

“Yeah, I was wondering if there’s any actual benefit in SE’s regarding having a better Techno ranking. Like do they also see that you have more links coming to you?”

reveiwMe use Technorati rank as a metric, as John mentioned, so theres one benefit, I am sure there are others…

Jez March 19, 2007 at 3:13 am

Sorry, you were on about SE’s, I am not sure, Google picks up Technorati links, but I think only the link that shows the blog details, not all of the links beneath that, so No, I dont think there is any SEO benefit.

Aris March 17, 2007 at 10:47 pm

Can’t wait till batch 35 coming out. :twisted:

Jez March 19, 2007 at 3:25 am

Yeah its hard to keep up… I wont persist with this for long, I am looking short term benefit at the mo.

For longer term benefit your time is better spent adding posts to your blog and leaving “link bait” in the comments.

Where I get hits from comments left in posts that are months old, from a time when I only bothered commenting if I had something useful to say :twisted:

Leaving well tought out constructive comments gets you a steady trickle of hits from users trawling the archives…

lyndonmaxewell March 17, 2007 at 11:40 pm

I agree. I guess anyone who had a backlink to his site got a boost as well.

Mark Robinson March 18, 2007 at 6:02 am

For sure – I think the same Technorati glitch causes a backlink from John to create like 20 links. It’s really screwed up. It’s great.

lyndonmaxewell March 18, 2007 at 6:08 am

Definitely so, for many of us.

Saman Sadeghi March 18, 2007 at 1:25 pm

It really has, I hope the people I linked to got a benefit of this as well!

Jez March 19, 2007 at 3:15 am

I dont see how, your blog is sitll only counted as one, it is johns blog that counts as 500!

If you pulled the same stunt as john you would give the same benefit, but then your rank would be frozen too…

wildbluff_matt March 18, 2007 at 7:12 am

It created way more than 20 backlinks for me. I ended up with hundreds (probably more than 500) of new links from being there.

But now what happens when I lose that spot? Does my ranking go back to a high number instead? :?:

lyndonmaxewell March 18, 2007 at 7:26 am

I guess a reshuffle will be in place then. It is all on Technorati’s side to handle this.

HMTKSteve March 18, 2007 at 7:35 am

Technorati works on a 3 month cycle.

Marc March 18, 2007 at 11:06 am

It is completely in Technorati’s court to fix. The question is, is this a broader problem that they want to resolve, or is John just so evil that he’s broken them and they don’t really care since it has a minimal impact on their overall system.

Saman Sadeghi March 18, 2007 at 1:26 pm

I’m not looking forward to the day where it is fixed!

Jez March 19, 2007 at 3:16 am

No me neither, but if it isnt the whole technorati ranking system will fail, which would be a shame for those that have a genuine rank…

Jez March 19, 2007 at 1:06 am

I think its one more site linking to you per comment :!:

Jez March 19, 2007 at 3:26 am

Thats a good point, the people with the paid adlinks at the top would also get this benefit, if they were blogs as opposed to websites. I wouldnt be surprised if Mitch bought one of these after reading this post.

Mark Robinson March 18, 2007 at 6:04 am

I wonder if this will result in a lot of crap comments from people just trying to boost their Technorati rank? Could mess up the warm community life that’s been cultivated here.

Marc March 18, 2007 at 11:07 am

There were already 100 reasons to post lots of “thin” comments. This just means there are 101 reasons. So far it hasn’t destroyed the community, just made it a lot noisier.

Saman Sadeghi March 18, 2007 at 1:26 pm

I’m sure it will… :sad:

Gary Lee March 18, 2007 at 1:39 pm

i definitely think it will. I won’t be surprised to see people pay people to start posting on this site. . . . can o’worms people . . can o’worms

Jez March 19, 2007 at 3:17 am

“I’m sure it will… ”

Textbook answer Samon :twisted:

Jez March 19, 2007 at 1:07 am

No, people comment anyway, the top commentors list has always attracted more commenting…

Jane May March 18, 2007 at 12:53 pm

That’s great to hear! Another perk for being affiliated with John Chow!

Jez March 19, 2007 at 3:21 am

Yeah, Ill be interested to see what the review me value gets set at.

The other benefit commenting here is that you get visits from Johns readers, a number of whom run the Alexa toolbar / FF Plug ins.

This means that commenting here gets a boost on two of the reveiwMe metrics, which could increase your “fee”.

Though you can manually set your review me fee, having a better Alexa and Techno rank increase its ‘genuine’ worth.

All good, but commenting is time consuming, and as such detrimental to the content on your own blog…

Jez March 19, 2007 at 12:58 am

Not a huge boost, only one more site linking, commenting is what gives the boost…

AskaX March 19, 2007 at 8:50 pm

yea you right johnny, I got huge leap from 828,733 to 54,093 overnight, just list on his review batch :D

Culture Shiok! March 20, 2007 at 6:49 am

This is starting to look like a “Make Money Online with John Chow Dot Com FORUM” :razz:

….and the top commentators are the moderators :mrgreen:

Mark Robinson March 24, 2007 at 9:06 am

I think the dream is over – Technorati has fixed their glitch from what I can tell: http://www.markrobinson.ca/2007/03/technorati-fixes-rank-glitch/

Jon March 17, 2007 at 9:14 pm

Wow! I wonder if the technorati people will notice. What do you think will happen?

Johnny_Cash March 17, 2007 at 9:56 pm

That’s why I never talk about it when I found this out, but now everyone know!

Leftblank March 18, 2007 at 1:49 am

Well if I’m right John even reported it to them, so if they don’t know about it yet it’s pretty much their own fault I’d say…

Jez March 19, 2007 at 12:59 am

John has mentioned it before, as have other commentors, its no secret, the question is how long this will last for….

Culture Shiok! March 20, 2007 at 6:51 am

Hope it will be long enough for me to get to the top 10 :mrgreen:

lyndonmaxewell March 17, 2007 at 11:45 pm

What are they going to do now, you say? It seems like they have to physically scan every single blogs to ensure that there is only one unique link from each one, but that’s pretty much impossible beacause of linkbacks in posts as well! There are just too many blogs to check!

Gary Lee March 18, 2007 at 1:47 pm

can’t they just filter out all but one of john’s blogs?

Jez March 19, 2007 at 1:01 am

It must be an issue for them or they would have resolved it by now, the problem for technorati is if other sites pull the same stunt, it will ruin their stats which would be a shame, not that thats stopping me commenting!

Jez March 19, 2007 at 3:28 am

Yeah its going to be tricky for them, it will slow them down a lot!!

Culture Shiok! March 20, 2007 at 6:53 am

Good! I have more time….

Mark Robinson March 18, 2007 at 5:55 am

It’s a bit of a glitch for sure – mind you I’ve often wondered about the accuracy of Technorati from the beginning.

Jez March 19, 2007 at 3:29 am

Personally I dont think Technorati rank is really worth much, its one of a number of sites that track blogs.

I only ever use it to check stats for my own and friends blogs, I never use it to find information.

Information searches are very poor on technorati IMO.

Jane May March 18, 2007 at 12:56 pm

Same here. I try not to mention why because the more popular this becomes, the more likely they are to do something about it. :twisted: I know, I know…evil :lol:

Net Business Blog criticizes this and gives two solutions for Technorati.

Jez March 19, 2007 at 5:10 am

Its a bit late now though, its old news now, john posted on it ages ago, and anyone who took the time to look up commentors sites in technorati would have seen it imediately

Jez March 19, 2007 at 1:08 am

They have noticed and frozen Johns rank, the thing is they have not resolved the problem itself

Babak March 17, 2007 at 9:15 pm

Who the what now?

John, could you explain why technorati thinks you’re 500 blogs instead of one? and why today, what was special about today? is it a weekly thing?

And finally, will technorati even be recognizable after you’re done with it? or will the coroner just point to the puddle in the corner?

Johnny_Cash March 17, 2007 at 10:15 pm

I think it is caused by John Chow’s evil experiment.

http://www.johnchow.com/how-i-got-banned-then-unbanned-from-technorati/

He said he loaded all URLs linking to his site to Technorati pinging tools. He probably loaded a lot of his posts as seperate blog too.

Technorati’s spider is slow. If your blog is linked to John Chow dot com, you will probably see your technorati’s rank steadily increased in the next few days as more John Chow’s older post got indexed.

lyndonmaxewell March 17, 2007 at 11:48 pm

Did he do it once more? :twisted: Whatever it is, it is benefitting the community. The community gains!

Leftblank March 18, 2007 at 1:50 am

‘The community’ or ‘the top commentators’; quite a difference ‘aye ;)

lyndonmaxewell March 18, 2007 at 2:03 am

No, if you have read, those that are not in the list are gaining as well.

Jez March 19, 2007 at 6:12 am

“Did he do it once more? Whatever it is, it is benefitting the community. The community gains!”

Cheats like this dont benefit the community at all, they corrupt the rankings and put blogs that deserve the rank further down the list….

HMTKSteve March 18, 2007 at 4:57 am

I think it is because his blog posts look like directories rather than html pages. Thus, every page looks like a new blog! :mrgreen:

lyndonmaxewell March 18, 2007 at 1:23 pm

I don’t know how Technorati works, but their search-ranking seems to be confused!

Jane May March 18, 2007 at 12:57 pm

exactly. I’ve had a couple boosts like this. Probably 3 or 4 different times John’s “experiment” has boosted our ranking.

Saman Sadeghi March 18, 2007 at 1:28 pm

It sure has, his experiment has really effected all of us greatly! I’m getting links from pages John wrote last year!

Jez March 19, 2007 at 3:32 am

No its been like this for ages, my blog started shooting up as soon as I got on the top commentors list…

The fact is this is no more than a bit of fun, its not like your getting to no. 1 on google….

Gary Lee March 17, 2007 at 9:23 pm

I really don’t know what you did, but keep on doing it! Do you know how long this is going to last though? I really can’t believe I’m going to be ranked 2065 forever!

lyndonmaxewell March 17, 2007 at 11:51 pm

Although I don’t know how long it will last, I hope that it can last forever. *winks

Jane May March 18, 2007 at 1:00 pm

I just hope it lets us keep our current ranking and not take away anything

That would just be too evil

Saman Sadeghi March 18, 2007 at 1:30 pm

I’m sure they’ll drop back down – at least we’re all getting more traffic for now!

Matthew March 18, 2007 at 12:05 am

forever? i thought the links lasted 3 months?

lyndonmaxewell March 18, 2007 at 2:04 am

After 3 months, it will be back to square one for us. But it’s worthwhile in the meantime to ‘indulge’ in temporary happiness..

HMTKSteve March 18, 2007 at 7:37 am

By “us” you mean you. Some of “us” have legitimate links in there.

Jane May March 18, 2007 at 1:01 pm

Lol…you tell him Steve. I know we’ve gotten some good ones from John, but I didn’t realize that 3 months we go back to what we “should be”

Jez March 19, 2007 at 6:15 am

I know its good fun, but has to come to an end at some point, I dont see real benefit to the top commentors though… I mean, have you recieved a lot more traffic from technorati?? I havent noticed any difference.

danielle March 17, 2007 at 9:27 pm

seriously…i need to take notes from saman on how to be the top comment whore. :wink: i still think he’s a robot

Aris March 17, 2007 at 9:36 pm

He described it somewhere in his blog. Check it out, please. No, he is better than robot. He can think independently. :lol:

lyndonmaxewell March 17, 2007 at 11:54 pm

Set aside lots of spare time, read JC’s blog and pump in your ideas and comments, that’s what Saman does. :D

Mark Robinson March 18, 2007 at 5:57 am

It doesn’t take very long. Especially if you make lots of comments per post.

Jane May March 18, 2007 at 1:03 pm

True. It’s taking me about an hour to make a move to the top.

Saman Sadeghi March 18, 2007 at 1:31 pm

I’ll tell you how I do it:

Jez March 19, 2007 at 6:18 am

The easiest way to get lots of comments in is to look at the older posts already heavily commented, ther are more opportunities to reply… though page loads are slower…

Marc March 18, 2007 at 11:12 am

Instead of taking notes from Saman, spend that time writing on your own blog and grown that way ;)

Jez March 19, 2007 at 6:20 am

Yup, the more time you spend commenting in here the less content of your own you publish and the less google hits you will get in the future.

Its a conflict, I reckon I could have put out another 10 posts on my blog over the last 2 weeks if I had not spent so much time in here, however, I have a short term objective in doing this… after which I think I will return to normality!!

Warren Buffett March 17, 2007 at 9:32 pm

Someday I’ll be a top commentator….just got to keep on commenting….

Aris March 17, 2007 at 9:37 pm

Simon says, no, no, John says, someday never comes. :twisted:

lyndonmaxewell March 17, 2007 at 11:56 pm

I guess all of us just have to Try harder, although I dare say it’s pretty ‘impossible’. :D

Leftblank March 18, 2007 at 1:51 am

Yup, we’re making sure of that (I dropped out as soon as the week limit started, I can’t keep spamming all day long ;) )

HMTKSteve March 18, 2007 at 4:59 am

Sure you can! Just reply to all of Sam’s comments!

Saman Sadeghi March 18, 2007 at 1:31 pm

:lol: Yeah, just try and keep up with me!

Marc March 18, 2007 at 11:16 am

Yes, “someday” is a word that shouldn’t be used on John’s blog. If you don’t know why, check out

http://www.johnchow.com/someday-never-comes/

Aris March 17, 2007 at 9:35 pm

John,

Did you check your ranking in ‘make money online’ on Google? The last time I checked, the previous post was in #14 so page 2 while your old post as mentioned in my blog last night was in 34 or 36. You’re moving very fast in climbing the google ladder John.

My New Choice March 17, 2007 at 9:40 pm

I’ve noticed the links seem to come in waves from your site John, although I didn’t have as large an increase this time around. But not too long ago I was up around 100,000 and am now down to about 22,000 and have been dropping nicely.

Aris March 17, 2007 at 10:32 pm

Congratulations. I was in the 7 digits range last week, but I just checked and as of now it has climbed to 58014. I believe that was the results when the evil and his diciple-cum-teacher worked together. :-) Both John and Saman have pulled me up. I’m sure John has a big arm and he has more force, but Saman did a good job too. :lol:

lyndonmaxewell March 17, 2007 at 11:57 pm

I guess everyone in JC’s community is being pulled up. Everyone is having a hand in cracking that desired Technorati’s level.

Saman Sadeghi March 18, 2007 at 1:34 pm

I’m glad I could help buddy!

Ed Lau March 17, 2007 at 10:16 pm

It’s everyone on your front page. I jumped too…

Albert March 17, 2007 at 10:23 pm

That’s how evil works :twisted:

Albert March 17, 2007 at 10:30 pm

Guys, i just checked on Google with keywords “make money online” and John Chow Dot Com was at #7. Congrats John, your evil works show the result :grin:

Aris March 17, 2007 at 10:41 pm

Man, it was on page 2 few hours ago. At that time, only 6 people clicked on that link, three of them was me. I mean, I clicked on that Google link to go there. Let me see it now. Nuh, I don’t know how did you get that number. In this link,
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-20,GGLG:en&q=make+money+online
John is still in page 2 to #13. Just up one number from what I recorded 2, 3 hours ago. Google has not updated it yet, and it still shows 6 visits at 1:35pm. OK, I just click the link, went to John’s page which John should be able to see it from MBL (but wouw, with thousands viewer) and it just changed to 7 at 9:39ps. I’m sure that means Pacific Time zone.

Webmaster Labor March 17, 2007 at 10:31 pm

Will it be a permanent boost or a fluke?

Aris March 17, 2007 at 10:45 pm

Got the same question too.

Saman Sadeghi March 18, 2007 at 1:35 pm

I would imagine that Technorati will fix their system soon, and our ranks will be more accurate soon…

lyndonmaxewell March 18, 2007 at 12:00 am

It may be a temporary one I guess. Do technorati count expired backlinks?

Leftblank March 18, 2007 at 1:52 am

I think they do, and elsewise they’ll do so most likely when the ‘big buggyness’ is fixed.

HMTKSteve March 18, 2007 at 7:38 am

Technorati uses a three month rolling cycle.

Marc March 18, 2007 at 11:19 am

which means that all of the links you acquire on a given day expire three months later.

Saman Sadeghi March 18, 2007 at 1:36 pm

Really? So if you get zero links this cycle, your rank will drop?

carl March 18, 2007 at 5:58 am

maybe just a temporary because if you don’t comment you wont be in the top

Jez March 19, 2007 at 6:23 am

Fluke once technorati find a fix.

If they dont fix it more and more sites will do it and technorati will go down the gurgler!!

Albert March 17, 2007 at 10:52 pm

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=make+money+online&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

This is the URL that i search and John Chow come out on #7.

Aris March 17, 2007 at 10:58 pm

Thanks, Albert. I think the problem is with have too many people ‘make money online’ that John has to compete with here.

lyndonmaxewell March 18, 2007 at 12:10 am

IF he has a community to back him up, I believe the number one spot is his to claim in no time. Do people just realize how many backlinks he has as well??

carl March 18, 2007 at 5:59 am

buty let’s see, john can control many people because he holds contest a lot of time

Jez March 19, 2007 at 6:24 am

A few hundred SOE’d backlinks will get him there, how many of his competitors can generate that many links for a $250 prize??

John Chow March 17, 2007 at 11:05 pm

That is Google.com.au. I am on page 2 for Google.com and I’m at the #1 spot for Google.ca

Aris March 18, 2007 at 12:00 am

Did you see what I just found? You’re #4 in Technorati now.

Aris March 18, 2007 at 12:09 am

No, that’s wrong. Sorry!

lyndonmaxewell March 18, 2007 at 12:13 am

Number 4?? I just deduced from the top 100 list. JC has a good chance in being there should he be ‘free’ from Technorati’s clutches.

Marc March 18, 2007 at 11:22 am

I’ve got you at #6 on Google.ca out here on the East Coast.

Jez March 19, 2007 at 6:25 am

Quick work, I never understood why you didnt ask for the original posts to target keywords. I know you wanted Technorati ranking, but all the same, you would have to admit you missed a trick there, for the first time since Ive been reading this blog.

goitexpert March 17, 2007 at 10:53 pm

gonna try this and see if it works

goitexpert.com – xp-erienced it source

Leftblank March 18, 2007 at 1:53 am

Still a ‘nofollow’ ;)

Jon Lee March 18, 2007 at 6:19 am

Only place the links work at are if he links to your site in a post, or if you make it to the Top Commentators list. Good luck with that!

Aris March 17, 2007 at 10:56 pm

John, you were wrong about Saman. He got boost because he defeated Godzilla. :twisted:

lyndonmaxewell March 18, 2007 at 12:14 am

Godzilla wouldn’t even come close enough for Saman to grapple with him. So.. how could it be? :roll:

Saman Sadeghi March 18, 2007 at 1:38 pm

Godzilla was afraid! Also, the helicopter with the photographer was destroyed before I defeated Godzilla!

Jez March 19, 2007 at 6:27 am

Which one was godzilla BTW :mrgreen:

max March 17, 2007 at 11:01 pm

Hey thanks John, my blog went up to 1695 from 20,000 somethin’ after your recent review!

lyndonmaxewell March 18, 2007 at 12:26 am

Wow that’s some increment.. And you have tons of linkback as well!

Tyler March 17, 2007 at 11:18 pm

I miss being one of the top commentators :( I took a 3-4week break and I can’t catch up anymore!

Matthew March 18, 2007 at 12:07 am

you will, another 49 comments to go lol

Leftblank March 18, 2007 at 1:54 am

Not when I’ll get there first ;) . But like you said, it’s pretty much possible, but not easy though, not easy at all.

Dinner March 17, 2007 at 11:25 pm

Damn, that’s nice! I’ve got a long way to go before getting to the top though :razz: .

Jez March 19, 2007 at 6:30 am

If you reach the top you dont stay there long, Lyndon seems to have a good run.

Janes back in the game now and stayed there briefly, but not for long…

As long as you get enough posts so you dont get knocked off the benefits are much the same, bottom of the list is not much different from top, technorati boost will be the same…

Aris March 17, 2007 at 11:33 pm

Funny. I just saw this on Technorati page:

John Chow dot Com The Miscellaneous Ramblings of a Dot Com Mogul
Search this blog Rank: 1,839,567 (2 links from 2 blogs)
URL: http://www.johnchow.com/page/3
Updated: 13 hours ago

Please go and check it yourself.

lyndonmaxewell March 18, 2007 at 12:34 am

some of his pages had linkbacks and seem to count as individual blogs.

Saman Sadeghi March 18, 2007 at 1:43 pm

Yeah, I’m getting linkbacks from articles John wrote last year!

Chee Kui March 17, 2007 at 11:49 pm

whoa.. should have commented more on this blog. lol.
I am anticipating the 36th batch review, hehe. Watch out people. :p

Matthew March 17, 2007 at 11:56 pm

of course this happens within hours of me not being a top commenter, however i got a big boost from you anyhow

Leftblank March 18, 2007 at 2:02 am

Same here, I went from 500k to just under the 19k, but it seems the real big boosts are happening right now :(

Aris March 17, 2007 at 11:57 pm

This is what I found when I search for this page on Technorati:

Sorry!
No posts link to that URL yet. Please try again later.

Now I know, why each page has different Technorati numbers.

When I go for top page, http://www.johnchow.com, I got this number:

59,244 links to this URL

Now, let’s see what is the rank of this page with highest authority:

Engadget
Search this blog Rank: 4 (451,999 links from 27,086 blogs)
URL: http://www.engadget.com
Updated: 10 hours ago

:twisted:

Aris March 18, 2007 at 12:08 am

OK, it’s time to go to bed. I was so excited the search results of johnchow.com shows me number 4 at the top. It turned out that it was the number of endgadget. Sorry John. Got to go to bed now.

Aris March 17, 2007 at 11:58 pm

You’re crazy John. :twisted: Did you know you’re number 4 in Technorati even though you think they still freezed you!

Don’t know who is number 1. Could it be his good twin? :lol:

Matthew March 18, 2007 at 12:07 am

im very interested to know whos #1

Saman Sadeghi March 18, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Saman Sadeghi March 18, 2007 at 1:54 pm

Engadget
http://www.engadget.com
27,039 blogs link here

lyndonmaxewell March 18, 2007 at 12:32 am

He couldn’t be. Those kids in the top ten has several hundred thousand linkbacks. Now thats crazy..

girlrobot March 18, 2007 at 12:07 am

wow, i dunno how the top commentators do it. i’d have to spend more time commenting on your blog than working on my own blog! heheh

vijay March 18, 2007 at 2:16 am

yes, seems a good idea to me…

Marc March 18, 2007 at 11:26 am

It all depends on how much time you have available. I’d be lying if I dais it wasn’t having an impact on my writing though.

Jez March 19, 2007 at 6:32 am

thats the problem, would not say more time, but, I would say as long as it takes to write a post each day, so its not all good….

Aris March 18, 2007 at 12:21 am

To make sure I got the ranking right, I went to check Technorati Most Linked as well as More Favorited blogs, and yes, they have not let John in those list yet. Now, I can go to bed without thinking about this number games while dreaming. :twisted:

lyndonmaxewell March 18, 2007 at 12:29 am

I guess it will be soon, just that something is hindering the other side of Technorati.

Francois Gendron March 18, 2007 at 12:32 am

I have had steady improovement from technocrati in the last 3 weeks going from 150 000+ to just over 25 000. I am far from being a top commentator in here so I guess this is not the reason.

BUT I am sure that some of your tips that I gradually try to successfully incorporate in my blog are the main reasons for my performances.

Once again I will never thank you enough John. Keep it simple for us the little blogs and the newbies.

Harry Maugans March 18, 2007 at 1:21 am

Technorati has my site frozen as well. It claims I haven’t updated in over a year. :lol:

lyndonmaxewell March 18, 2007 at 1:30 am

lol.. How is that possible?

Matthew March 18, 2007 at 11:03 am

did you try pinging them? lol

Deirdré Straughan March 18, 2007 at 1:34 am

I, too, have been frozen by Technorati since December. An acquaintance put me in touch with their CTO, who made a bunch of suggestions which made no difference at all to my Technorati ranking (though they may have helped other things).

I thought Technorati was simply having trouble coping with my weird hybrid site/blog, but if it’s happening to you guys as well, perhaps I shouldn’t blame myself.

How common is this freeze problem? How reliable can Technorati rankings possibly be if some (many?) blogs are not perceived as updated for months? It’s disturbing that, as with Alexa, this very flawed ranking is to put market value on blogs and the relatively influence of their writers.

lyndonmaxewell March 18, 2007 at 4:39 am

I agree that the ranking system implemented by them, or for any system for that matter may be flawed, it is just one of the more commonly recognized way to compare between blogs. Not everyone takes this seriously though.

Moses March 18, 2007 at 1:38 am

That’s great news..guess i better start commenting more here :P

Philip Yong March 18, 2007 at 2:04 am

this is just amazing. Commenting on someone’s blog could boost tracfics and so.

carl March 18, 2007 at 5:57 am

yea that’s why commenting on blogs is also a good source of traffic!

Jez March 19, 2007 at 6:34 am

Not as good as google…

Jon Lee March 18, 2007 at 6:21 am

Only if they click your link, since to the crawlers, your name/link in comments are nofollow!

Saman Sadeghi March 18, 2007 at 1:55 pm

They are nofollow in comments but not on the Top Commentator’s list

Jez March 19, 2007 at 6:35 am

Can you imagine what would happen if John took the no follow tag off, every linkback in every comment getting a tech boost :!:

vijay March 18, 2007 at 2:14 am

thats a great news… will make me post some comments too..

James Britton March 18, 2007 at 3:48 am

I just got two more linkbacks from the ReviewMyBlog that I did 2 weeks ago. Go Technorati! Since reading JohnChow.com I have gone from like 700,000 to just above 91,000 in about 1 month. THanks

carl March 18, 2007 at 5:52 am

wow! nice james! you just spiked off technorati’s rankings!

Jon Lee March 18, 2007 at 6:22 am

Too bad they don’t have a listing of the “top movers and shakers” like Alexa, otherwise you’d b near the top of that I’m sure!

Saman Sadeghi March 18, 2007 at 1:57 pm

That would be cool, they do show your stats though…

Jez March 19, 2007 at 6:36 am

I think I was in batch 6 with my first blog, I still get a couple of hits each week, and hits from comments now in the archives…

Culture Shiok! March 20, 2007 at 6:22 am

I’m at 27,335th now (20 Mar 2007 9:20 pm GMT +8)
Hope you don’t mind if I’ll a whore tonight. :mrgreen:

IndoDX March 18, 2007 at 3:50 am

This amazing, but I have little question, why this post, detected as individual BLOG?

Saman Sadeghi March 18, 2007 at 1:59 pm

That is the problem – all of John’s posts are viewed as individual blogs.

FaYZ March 18, 2007 at 4:12 am

Good John, should start making a point commenting each of your post from now on..samanathon is a real winner..

HMTKSteve March 18, 2007 at 4:53 am

Top 100? You will be number 1! Engadget only has about 25K links.

carl March 18, 2007 at 5:55 am

but that’s blog links, john has 50k links which is different from blog link

lyndonmaxewell March 18, 2007 at 7:30 am

yea.. Engadget has 400k backlines in total. It is the blog links that makes the difference in the ranking.

Jakob Dupont Knudsen March 18, 2007 at 4:55 am

Maybe I should do a review of Johns blog anyway :)

Modern Chaos March 18, 2007 at 4:58 am

Thanks, John

xzblogs March 18, 2007 at 5:05 am

good!

is a trick or is a Technorati bug?

baron March 18, 2007 at 5:33 am

I guess I should comment more often! :twisted:

carl March 18, 2007 at 5:48 am

me too! :twisted: hahahaha :twisted:

Carl March 18, 2007 at 6:11 am

Yeah!!! :smile:

Saman Sadeghi March 18, 2007 at 2:05 pm

Just don’t spam guys!

Mark Robinson March 18, 2007 at 5:59 am

And all I wanted was a free pen….

Gdog March 18, 2007 at 6:13 am

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!!!

Zach March 18, 2007 at 10:15 am

hahahhaa, that’s actually a good idea

Ed March 18, 2007 at 6:16 am

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..

Everyday Weekender March 18, 2007 at 6:21 am

John your evilness never ceases to amaze me :wink:

stubsy March 18, 2007 at 7:02 am

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

lyndonmaxewell March 18, 2007 at 7:28 am

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.

Big Cajun Man March 18, 2007 at 7:24 am

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

Erik March 18, 2007 at 7:53 am

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

Gary Lee March 18, 2007 at 9:58 am

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.

David March 18, 2007 at 10:33 am

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

Jez March 19, 2007 at 6:38 am

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

Mark Robinson March 18, 2007 at 8:32 am

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

Jez March 19, 2007 at 6:39 am

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

Mark Robinson March 18, 2007 at 8:34 am

Now people – don’t abuse the comments list just to get ahead in Technorati.

Mark Robinson March 18, 2007 at 8:35 am

That would be wrong.

Mark Robinson March 18, 2007 at 8:35 am

Don’t do it!

Mark Robinson March 18, 2007 at 8:36 am

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

Mike Panic March 18, 2007 at 9:58 am

I guess I need to start posting more.

wildbluff_matt March 18, 2007 at 11:08 am

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

Jez March 19, 2007 at 6:40 am

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

Zach March 18, 2007 at 10:07 am

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

Zach March 18, 2007 at 10:08 am

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

Zach March 18, 2007 at 10:14 am

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

David March 18, 2007 at 10:31 am

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

Marc March 18, 2007 at 10:54 am

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

Matthew March 18, 2007 at 11:02 am

same thing here

Marc March 18, 2007 at 10:53 am

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.

Xof March 18, 2007 at 11:28 am

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

StormVideographer March 18, 2007 at 2:46 pm

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

Wauks March 18, 2007 at 3:59 pm

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

Zach March 18, 2007 at 4:34 pm

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

They now all have a technorati blog rank on their sidebar

Jez March 19, 2007 at 6:41 am

Not mine, just an “Add to favorites” :-)

Zach March 18, 2007 at 4:37 pm

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.

Jez March 19, 2007 at 6:43 am

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.

Gdog March 18, 2007 at 5:46 pm

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

Jez March 19, 2007 at 6:44 am

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,

Jeff Kee March 18, 2007 at 6:44 pm

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

Jez March 19, 2007 at 6:45 am

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

Aris March 18, 2007 at 8:59 pm

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.

macgoo March 18, 2007 at 11:00 pm

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

Jez March 19, 2007 at 6:46 am

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

Aly March 19, 2007 at 9:01 am

That’s nutty! This stuff is really informative.

Jeremy March 19, 2007 at 10:01 pm

Posting for rank increase. No other purpose.