Comments on: Blogging Tools: Technorati Overview

By: Rahul Jadhav

Rahul Jadhav — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:41:27 +0000

I dont find Technorati that reliable. Nowadays , it has lost its value. With an experiment Dosh Dosh entered the top 100 blogs list by exchanging technorati favourites

By: Jacob Duchaine

Jacob Duchaine — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:42:36 +0000

I’ve never really found Technrati to be that useful of a site.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:46:27 +0000

Tony, I didn’t miss your comment up there. I just spaced! (Doh!) I’m with you. Not perfect. But very useful.

And obsessing too much about your link count can be just as frazzling as worrying about your daily site traffic or feed subscriber count. They are going to change, often for reasons that are really hard to figure out.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:41:26 +0000

Hey Margaret, you can use it to track the conversations about your business name, products or industry. You can also tag your business posts to help increase “find-ability” of your site for potential customers.

And that’s just for starters.

(Did you make it to the Un-conference Friday? If so I’m bummed we didn’t get a chance to meet.)

By: Margaret

Margaret — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:37:05 +0000

Thank you Chris. I’ve been on Technorati for my personal blogging and never really gave it a thought to our business site’s updates, notices and material that we’ve posted.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:43:45 +0000

RenÃ©e, have you gone in and claimed your blog with Technorati?

By: RenÃ©e

RenÃ©e — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:27:50 +0000

I’m happy for you, Tony!

Unfortunately I don’t share the same fate as you have regarding the “responsive in their support”

By: RenÃ©e

RenÃ©e — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:22:11 +0000

I pretty much given up hope on Technorati, when searching for related topics (be it small dogs or pets in general) is concerned. I get better result via others’ blogroll or SEs.

Thank goodness, health and fitness topics are not that bad overall, otherwise I’m dead meat.

No problem in tracking inbound links looking at my wp dashboard. But my server stats are much more reliable!

I don’t care much about my ranking in Technorati, but Text-adlink does. This has affected my advertiser rate. Luckily, I have advertisers coming to me directly than through Text-adlink.

By: Tony D. Clark

Tony D. Clark — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:13:49 +0000

Great coverage, Chris.

Technorati is a great tool, but can also be frustrating. Playing T’rati Roulette each day can be a bummer. You never know what links are going to drop off, or how your ranking will fluctuate.

Fortunately, they’re extremely responsive in their support. Liz did a post on her issues, and passed along my comment, and it was corrected quickly. When it happened again last week, Janice let me know about an outage and it was corrected.

So a great tool with some bugs. But I wouldn’t do without it.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:59:09 +0000

Perhaps you might do better using a more specific search term?

What tool do you prefer over Technorati for tracking your inbound links?