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.
- Saman Sadeghi (1,965)
- Jane May (2,005)
- Jez (10,212)
- lyndonmaxewell (1,969)
- WildBluff_Matt (2,439)
- HMTKSteve (1,310)
- Mark Robinson (2,505)
- Gary Lee (2,065)
- Marc (19,884)
- carl (36,992)
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! 
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Not only top commentator. People in your review batch also got huge technorati boost too!
Well, I didn’t get a huge boost
Better luck next time (or in a while, the Technorati spiders tend to recrawl older posts if you wait long enough)
I think Technorati already stopped counting John’s posts as individual blogs. I didn’t get any “huge” boost.
Wish I could have been on the front page at that time
I see that problem has been fixed now
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!
That is a huge leap! I can only make small steps now.
just keep posting, it’ll never hurt
That’s ok Steve, nothing wrong with being so close to the top
Technorati has been counting John’s pages as separate blogs for a while now!
I’m very interested in how this works, because i know a few other sites that have with ‘problem’
Its technorati that have the ‘problem’, this could ruin things for them….
Mark Robinson’s “Under 500 in an hour” is so tempting….
I didn’t get huge boot but got better technorati rank.
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.
definitely a great boost then
I’m in the lead! I’m in the lead!
I just can’t quit you John!
I sense some competition coming!
i wonder how many other sites are doing this
You sense come coming?????
It’s already significantly more competitive than it was, just in February.
It seems like my rank is increasing by 6k every day!
So youll be in negative figures soon then
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!
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!
Now I see the boost. My blog/s rank is
# Rank: 2,356 (1,899 links from 826 blogs)
So crazy!!
That’s definitely crazy! A big change overnight, that’s all I can say
It does give a real sense of giddiness - even though I know it’s bogus.
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?
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.
Good to know. Thanks.
It may not help SE’s but traffic has definitely increased!
wow! I hope I can be in the top commentators so i can get that boost!!
Its good fun, but will be short lived I think!!
“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…
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.
Can’t wait till batch 35 coming out.
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
Leaving well tought out constructive comments gets you a steady trickle of hits from users trawling the archives…
I agree. I guess anyone who had a backlink to his site got a boost as well.
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.
Definitely so, for many of us.
It really has, I hope the people I linked to got a benefit of this as well!
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…
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?
I guess a reshuffle will be in place then. It is all on Technorati’s side to handle this.
Technorati works on a 3 month cycle.
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.
I’m not looking forward to the day where it is fixed!
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…
I think its one more site linking to you per comment
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.
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.
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.
I’m sure it will…
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
“I’m sure it will… ”
Textbook answer Samon
No, people comment anyway, the top commentors list has always attracted more commenting…
That’s great to hear! Another perk for being affiliated with John Chow!
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…
Not a huge boost, only one more site lin