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Respect my Authority!
By admin | May 4, 2007
I had been visiting the Technorati page frequently the last few weeks to see how my race for a higher ranking was going but just now I noticed that they have changed some things around. It seems brighter and cleaner in some ways. The terminology has slightly changed and nowadays you don’t have a rank anymore but authority. The little rankbar is now missing the amount of people that favored you which is a shame because it looked better to have that all on the one badge.
Something else that caught my eye is that you have a better visual on who favored you. I logged in and saw a square with 12 pictures of my 92 fans in it which was nice. Gave it a more personal touch I think.
Technorati must have had it’s reasons to modify their layout but I dont understand why they are not helping the hundereds of bloggers who are having problems with the service. Blogs that don’t seem to update. Blogs that cannot get claimed. Blogs that for some reason won’t get listed. These are all pretty important issues I’d say and Technorati should really fix their functionality before they improve their looks.
Having said that, I only ran into a little problem once but this was sorted out quickly by their staff. Let’s not forget that it’s a free service and we should thank them for getting us bloggers on the map 
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Topics: technorati, blog |
May 5th, 2007 at 12:25 am
I just noticed that too. I’m guessing higher authority is better? I wonder what the highest authority would be. Looking at Engadget, I’m guessing it just keeps going up, as right now it’s at an odd number (27,491)
I wonder if they changed anything other than the layout.
And about customer support, I don’t think anything on Technorati works by default. When I signed up, the blog didn’t update until I finally contacted them. When I placed their tag cloud widget on my blog, it didn’t work until I contacted them. etc. etc. But once I did contact them, problems were solved in a matter of hours.
May 5th, 2007 at 1:15 am
In case anyone’s wondering, I pulled this from their site to define authority:
“Authority is determined by the number of unique links to your blog or blog posts made within the last 180 days. So there it is determined by the number of links as well as their recency.”
May 5th, 2007 at 3:20 am
This is a step in the right direction for technorati. They used to have several blog monopolizing, for the most part on old links, so maybe this will allow some great fresh content to pop up.
May 5th, 2007 at 8:48 am
When I logged in tonight I was a little confused at first, but I like the design. I’m not sure I like the term “authority” because it makes it sound as if someone is better than someone else-which to me when it comes to Technorati really isn’t true. I don’t know how I have received so many backlinks or why I rank high, (I’m slipping, come on people blog about me or something), but I don’t have nearly the feed subscribers as some of those in the 20,000 range. (As of tonight I was at 960 on Technorati- I was in the 800s).
As for the bloggers who have issues with Technorati updating them- you’re looking at someone who couldn’t ping them for over 6 months, sent in a support email and automagically a few weeks later, everything was working again. Go figure.
May 5th, 2007 at 9:11 am
hmm, so after 180 days your authority starts shrinking? I think thats good in a way. It means you really need to keep your blog interesting at all times
I do foresee a lot of blogs dissapearing out of the top spots though..
May 5th, 2007 at 9:33 am
My issues happened last summer, so no my authority didn’t shrink. It grew and only recently began to shrink- after all of the “trains” going on. Some did the right thing and added people- some didn’t return the favor.
May 5th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
they must have read this post, because recently they started fixing a bunch, they did one of the blogs i contribute on
May 5th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
@Matthew: Or the blog owner sent in a support ticket
kidding. Well it’s good if they start doing it automatically, or create a script to do it automatically.
I guess they just like it better manual so they don’t waste their server’s resources on blogs that don’t even care if they get pinged or not.
@Beth: they changed something else to “blog reactions” as well. I don’t remember what. Which to me is another bad term.
May 5th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
no they didn’t do it automatically, i posted on their forum, but many weren’t even getting a response by that. they fixed a bnch
May 6th, 2007 at 12:40 am
Yeah, I saw a whole lot of threads that were closed all over sudden, good stuff from Technorati