10 Comments to “Making Sense of Technorati Link Counts”

1. October 4th, 2006 at 1:39 pm
   Michael A. Stelzner said

   Liz;

   I love and HATE Technorati! For example, it has not updated my blog in over 30 days. It is also a bit pokey and slow at times.

   I often find myself looking to BlogLines.com or Blogsearch.google.com because they are more accurate (up to the min) and load way faster.

   Mike

2. October 4th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
   ME Strauss said

   Hi Mike,
   I hear you

3. October 4th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
   ann michael said

   That was really helpful, Liz (although it’s still WRONG on my account - I have more links in the 180 day count than the “ever” count!).

   I never knew that the rank was shared!!!!

4. October 4th, 2006 at 2:58 pm
   ME Strauss said

   Hi Ann,
   They’re still working on the problems, but at least now we can speak the same language.

   I never knew most of how this stuff was interpretted. I’m so glad that Janice shared this.

5. October 4th, 2006 at 7:46 pm
   katiebird said

   Hi Liz,
   This was interesting. I noticed a leap in the links reported by Technorati a month ago or so. It was pretty exciting at the time.

   Now that I have something to compare it to, it’ll be more interesting.

   I’ve bookmarked this specific post. It’s that useful.

6. October 4th, 2006 at 7:48 pm
   ME Strauss said

   Hi Katie,
   They were moving their servers to a new location is what I heard and they’re still doing stuff to shore things up . . . so I don’t think everything is quite shaken out yet.

7. October 5th, 2006 at 6:22 am
   TechZ said

   Yeah, they had some work done on the servers, afaik, so things were a mess for a while, Kevin Marks was good enough to manually update some of our blogs, and hopefully everyone elses will be updated and reflecting the latest changes soon. Technorati has its ups and downs, just like we do

8. October 5th, 2006 at 6:27 am
   ME Strauss said

   Hi TechZ,
   Technorati’s big mistake throughout the past year has been not communicating what’s going on with its customers. Keeping us in the dark has only worked against them and made their job harder.

   People fill in an open space of information with nagative . . . if they would say what’s going on. People would give them the benefit of the doubt.

   Had they announced the server move. I wouldn’t have freaked the day I lost 82 links in one minute. I would have known to expect weird anamolies like that.

9. October 5th, 2006 at 10:30 am
   TechZ said

   Isnt it always the way? Lack of proper communication leads to so many problems, its not like we have a shortage of medium…but a lack of will to communicate.

10. October 5th, 2006 at 10:37 am
    ME Strauss said

    Yep, TechZ, it is.
    It’s amazing what happens when people just talk to each other. We do that and look at how well it works.