Technorati Has a NEW Home Page–My Blogs Are Stuck Again

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How many votes say this is a coincidence?

New Technorati home page today.

My blogs have been stuck for two weeks. One blog has lost 50 links in that time.

TEchnorati Home Page

Businesses do such things as make shiny new displays and forget their customers, when they are looking for capital or looking to be bought.

Last time I talked to Janice, she said her email had been broken. I sure hope that Janice isn’t sick. OR WORSE that she hasn’t gone the way that Niall Kennedy went. I like Janice. She’s our only hope.

Technorati, when it works, is a tool that helps my brand and provides promotion. I don’t like it when it is broken. I don’t want David Sifry to tell me he’s looking into it. Neither does anyone else I know.

I’m trying hard to stay the nice one here. This is month seven.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Link to Janice. Give Janice AUTHORITY.

Filed Under Business Life, Community, Links, SEO, Successful Blog, Tech/Stats, Technorati | 20 Comments

Yesterday I wrote about David Sifry’s State of the Blogosphere–Part 2 Message. I ended that post with the question, What will you do? I wasn’t really talking to Niall Kennedy, but he did something anyway.

Technorati’s Still Broken, Niall Leaves, and
We Get Bells and Whistles

This via Duncan Riley at the Blog Herald: Niall Kennedy left his job at Technorati. Mr. Kennedy doesn’t discuss his reasons for departing. Click the logo to get to the Blog Herald Story. Then come back to find out what to do about it.

Blog Herald Logo

Duncan isn’t the only one concerned. Martin is wondering in the comments here why Technorati is introducing new features when their basic engine and tracking service is broken. So are lots of other people. I’m getting daily emails on the subject.

Use a Whistle–Give Janice Technorati AUTHORITY

The way I see it. Janice Myint needs more than Janice to fix what’s wrong at Technorati. It’s time to get throw some real support behind her. So why not use the whistle David Sifry just handed us–AUTHORITY.

Let’s give Janice Myint Authority, by getting everyone to LINK TO JANICE.
We’ll need to do this with some saavy. We don’t want Janice to end up in the Google sandbox. I propose we work together on the honor system. Are you with me?

For SEO reasons, we need a variety of link types and a variety of link names. Keep these guidelines in mind.

  • Not everyone should use the exact title of her blog.
  • Not everyone should blogroll her blog. Some should be links to individual posts.
  • Some should be comment links.
  • Not everyone should link today, tomorrow, or the next day.

Choose one of the options below to pick your link day.

  • 1. Choose the last letter in your last name. Count its place in the alphabet. Count out that many days from today and link to Janice’s blog on that day.
  • 2. When you get your next link to your own blog. Link to Janice’s blog.
  • 3. If a friend or family member has a birthday, anniversary or other occasions between now and April 1st, link to Janice’s blog on that day.
  • 4. When you get the third, or fourth, or fifth, “Sorry Technorati is . . .” message, link to Janice’s blog.

Janice’s URL is http://janicetechnorati.blogspot.com/

Janice Technorati logo

This will get real attention, if enough of us do it. We have the power to make a difference.

I’d trade the bells and whistles for a smooth-working engine that tracks my links accurately.

Wouldn’t you? Link to Janice.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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David Sifry Writes about the Future–Janice Myint Please Don’t Read It

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David Sifry posted The State of the Blogosphere–Part 1 at the Technorati Weblog today. This post is research and analysis at its finest. The post is deep, broad, and replete with solid information, graphic visuals, and links to take you even deeper. Anyone who wants to understand the blogosphere should read it.

The information and analysis in this post will serve you in your online business. It will serve you as a student. It will serve you in casual conversation–when a friend wants to discuss the future of the Internet, or when someone tries to tell you all blogs are trashy online diaries.

Just a few notes–a taste–from the summary.

  • Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs
  • The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half months
  • It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago
  • On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day
  • 13.7 million bloggers are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created
  • Spings (Spam Pings) can sometimes account for as much as 60% of the total daily pings Technorati receives

I sure hope Janice Myint doesn’t read it. Any Customer Service Team Leader at Technorati has enough to worry about. This post could be just overwhelming. Janice we still need you . . . please keep going. (When I went to check the link on this post, I got the “Sorry we are unable to complete your search right now . . .” message. At least now I know why.)

Everyone else go read it. This is stuff you can’t buy at any price and you won’t get in business school. The name of this post is State of the Blogosphere–Part 1. But it tells the future.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Janice Myint, It didn’t Work Right

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Technorati logo

I sent an email to Janice Myint at Technorati.

In it I included this link Dear Niall Kennedy and David Sifry and a statement that I have three blogs that are not working.

I awoke this morning to a reply it said.

> URL: http://lettingmebe.blogspot.com

That’s indexed fine:
http://technorati.com/search/%22people%20bother%20me%22

>
> Message:
> http://successful-blog.com/1/dear-niall-kennedy-and-david-sifry/

I see last ping at 2006-01-22 18:15:13

forcing a manual respider works - can you check your pinging?

Here I go again.
It seems the drill is check the last post for the URL in the header and pick up one line in the message. No need to actually read it.

I did reply to the sender with a complete list of the problems, but I don’t think that was help enough, consdering the circumstanstances.

I think I also will trackback this post to Ms. Janice Myint’s original post about her arrival. The quest to help Technorati Customer Service improve moves forward.

It’s not an easy job, being the nice one. . . . But someone’s gotta do it.
Everyone so wants Janice to succeed.

ME “Liz” Strauss

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Janice Myint at Technorati Is in Customer Support

Filed Under Business Life, Links, Successful Blog, Tech/Stats | 10 Comments

Technorati logo

You might not be aware that Technorati has a Weblog, but yes indeedy, it sure does.

On January 30th the Post from Janice Myint said

In its commitment to continually improve its service, Technorati has recently brought me on board as a full time Customer Support Specialist. We are dedicated to addressing the current support issues in a timely manner, reducing the present support backlog, and improving online Troubleshooting and Help documentation to aid users utilize Technorati to its fullest.

The first thing that Ms. Myint is working on will be helping folks who are having trouble claiming a blog, because they are getting the notice “Checking for Technorati Goodness.”
Want to know more? Here’s a link to Ms.Myint’s post.

Good luck, Janice Myint in Customer Service at Technorati. You’ve got your work cut out for you. I guess you could think of it as job security. Sure would be nice of all of the Technorati messy stuff went away.

I’m dying to say something about sending in a woman to do the job . . . , but I’m the nice one, so I won’t. :)

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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