Ping the hell out of Technorati’s reputation algo
If your Technorati reputation factor sucks ass then read on, otherwise happily skip this post.
Technorati calculates a blog’s authority/reputation based on its link popularity, counting blogroll links from the linking blogs main pages as well as links within the contents of their posts. Links older than six months after their very first discovery don’t count.
Unfortunately, Technorati is not always able to find all your inbound links, usually because clueless bloggers forget to ping them, hence your blog might be undervalued. You can change that.
Compile a list of blogs that link to you and are unknown at Technorati, then introduce them below to a cluster ping orgy. Technorati will increase your authority rating after indexing those blogs.
Enter one blog home page URL per line, all lines properly delimited with a “\n” (new line, just hit [RETURN]; “\r” crap doesn’t work). And make sure that all these blogs have an auto-discovery link pointing to a valid feed in their HEAD section. Do NOT ping Technorati with post-URIs! Invest the time to click through to the blog’s main page and submit the blog-URI instead. Post-URI pings get mistaken for noise and trigger spam traps, that means their links will not increase your Technorati authority/rank.
Results:
Actually, this tool pings other services than Technorati too. Pingable contents make it on the SERPs, not only at Technorati.
If you make use of URL canonicalization routines that add a trailing slash to invalid URLs like http://example.com then make sure that you claim your blog at Technorati with the trailing slash.
Please note that this tool is experimental and expects a Web standard friendly browser. It might not work for you, and I’ll remove it if it gets abused.
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If we’ve missed a blog linking to yours, ping with the blog URL shortly after the link occurs. Once the post it’s from rolls off the page and feed, it’s too late; we don’t crawl blog archives.
-Ian
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Sebastian I just tried to use the ping tool, and I got a nasty error!!!
Sorry, something went awfully wrong. Maybe your browser sucks. Or the moon phase doesn’t fit my script’s prerequisites. You really didn’t try to call this script from an alien location?
I was pinging http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/ is something wrong with your blog?
Thanks for stopping by, Ian. Checking the number of items in the feeds respectively parsing them for the inbound links is a pretty good idea. I’m curious whether or not that would work with category feeds too.
Igor, there’s something unnatural in your request. I can’t go into the details, so just check for standard browser settings. Also, it doesn’t work in a feed reader.
Pinging my blog I get
I tried again and still does not work. I am using windows xp with IE 6.1
But a browser should not matter, is it not a server side script?
Maybe your script trying to read my IP address, but I am behind Nat Router?
I fired up IE, which has all standard settings because I rarely use it, and got the same error. Whatever the script checks for, it obviously doesn’t consider a GET with IE that is overcrowded with useless security crap a natural browser request. I’m not willing to change that, because I better live with a few false positives than too much abuse. Go get a browser and try it with FireFox like more than 80% of my readers. Dear IE users, I’m sorry but that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
Well it is good that we identified the malady. Just add a note do not use IE..It is bad for your health..:)
I guess, I am a contradiction for a developer…I am stuck with MS IE..Maybe I like Bill…
I know, embarrassment, I should be using FF, Opera, or a Linux browser.
But you know me, not easy to change!
Awesome script but this blog is now no follow?
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 20, 2007…
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web…….
WTF, thanks and no, only very few links are condomized.
Wow. As always, you rock Sebastian.
Thanks Tanner
So where is my tool to scrape Google alerts and ping Technorati with the URL in the alert?
Absolutely awesome idea.
It’s odd. I seem to get more splogs that are indexed by technorati and link to me, than I do legit blogs that have linked to me. Time to fix that ratio
Thanks.
Always thinkin outside the box. Smart. Thanks!
Thanks guys.
JLH, you’re greedy. I thought about that but copy+paste+submit takes less time ATM. Google alerts as RSS feeds would be neat.
SlightlyShadySEO, feel free to do that but please submit the pings manually. I’d have to block splog-creation scripts that call it.
Great idea Sebastian, I’ve gone ahead and created a script that get’s the last 100 url’s from both Technorati and Blogsearch, and pings all URL’s that blogsearch has that Technorati doesn’t
I’ll probably “pluginnify” it
Joost, great idea. That’s what I love on the Web. How ideas evolve …
Indeed
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I just learned something new today.
Thanks, Sebastian. Can’t wait to put this tip to work and see how it goes.
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