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How to increase your Technorati authority
August 16th, 2008I will share a little trick with you guys today to increase your technorati authority simply by commenting on blogs. It’s simple and works like magic. I’m not bothering too much about Technorati for this blog so I haven’t put that technique to use with SEO Horror, but I did it with other blogs.
1. Technorati introduction
First of all, to understand how to increase your Technorati authority, you have to understand how the Technorati authority is calculated, right?
Technorati Authority is the number of blogs linking to a website in the last six months. The higher the number, the more Technorati Authority the blog has.
It is important to note that we measure the number of blogs, rather than the number of links. So, if a blog links to your blog many times, it still only count as +1 toward your authority. Of course, new links mean the +1 will last another 180 days.
All right, so it’s all about getting backlinks again. Damn backlinks. The good news is that it’s easier to get real backlinks with Technorati than with Google. The reason is that technorati don’t care about a link being ‘no follow’ or ‘do follow’: a link is a link! The problem though is that Technorati only takes in consideration backlinks coming from blogs registered with Technorati, but most blogs are so it’s usually not a problem.
2. Comment
Commenting is the easiest way to get backlinks from Technorati, but not by commenting the usual way. A regular comment on a blog won’t give you a backlink from Technorati because when the owner of the blog actually “ping” Technorati to say “Hey, here’s my new post”, there are no comments on the article. So it doesn’t matter if you comment because Technorati won’t go back and check for new links. The question is, how can you get an increase in authority by commenting?
That is fairly simple and it’s called “Top commentator” or “Recent commentator” plugins. You will find these plugins on a lot of blogs and they simply are plugins showing the top commentators for the blog and also the 5-10 most recent comments. I use them on my blog and you can see the “Top commentators” in the footer. How to exploit these plugins? Well, by becoming a top commentator on a blog, you will appear on every single page of the blog. What does that mean? It means that everytime Technorati will visit a blog you are a top commentator on, it will see your link on the blog and that makes a +1 blog reaction for you!
3. Real life examples
Here are some real life examples:
We see that what was picked up by Technorati is the top commentators part of the blog and I was actually a top commentator at the time!
Now, we see that what Technorati picked up was the Recent Comments part of the blog and luckily, my comment was a recent comment at the time!
These two examples actually gave me an increase in authority just by commenting, which is something I do anyway!
Being a top commentator is dead easy
I know you are thinking you don’t have 15 hours a day to become a top commentator on all these blogs! The thing you have to know is that the top commentator plugin usually resets every month. That means everything starts fresh on the first of every month and you can be a top commentator with a single comment! On the first of each month, visit a couple of new blogs and comment as you would normally do. On the next blog post, if you are still a top commentator it means a +1 authority for you!
That’s it, it’s as simple as that. You guys might have other strategies to increase your Technorati authority and feel free to share that with us!
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Great tips and I will start by leaving a comment here! Thanks stumbled!
Yep, good advice. Now I only need to make rest of internet use those plugins…
Seriously I am not seeing much of them. And if I do – mostly on sites that have all plugins and widgets in existance enabled. seohorror is pleasant exception.
I might try it on my blog, but I am reeeaaaally careful on stuff I use. It’s too easy to slow your page to a crawl or break code to hell.
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@Fool: Thanks for the stumble!
Your blog looks nice btw, will drop a comment soon!
@Rarst: Thanks for that comment!
It’s ok to be careful on plugins you use because of the loading time. JohnChow.com is a terrible example of what a bad loading time is because of all the non-essential stuff.
Sounds great!! Thanks for the tip. Now if we could only get the rest of the free thinking world to follow suit…
I agree with Rarst, I don’t see a whole lot of those plugins and I don’t want to bog down my blog with anymore stuff than I really need to!!
Thanks again for sharing!
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No problems and thanks for your comment Regina!
Another gem of a post…keep these great posts going
It was smart of technorati to only allow incoming links to last 180 days. And good tips BTW.
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I have the recent comments on my blog too already but I never thought about putting the top commentator plug in on my blog. I’ve seen it on a few and it look good but I am unsure if or when I’ll do it on my.
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@Bruno: Well, the top commentator plugins is just a little something that might give an extra boost to your comments because some readers like to be top commentators. It ca also help if you want to have a contest or something, but it’s far from being something essential on a blog!
Nice tricks. hope will help me and all:)
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I’m sure it will!
nice idea….I was exploiting top commentator plugin,,,,but never thought of doing on 1st day of month…which will reduce a lot of load….thanks.
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@Bollywood: Yep, doing it on the first of the month will certainly make your life a lot easier!
Good stuff man, it’s actually pretty easy to get in those slots, as many readers don’t comment regularly, so it’s usually not that hard to appear there.
Nice handsome guy you used for that recent comments example…who is he?
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You are completely right, this really works, I notice the more I comment, the higher my rank climbs and the comments show up strong as Technorati links for my blog.
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@JK: Yeah, the top commenter spot isn’t too hard to get usually. I look at my top commentators and it goes from 4 to 61 comments. 4 isn’t too hard in a month!
Oh, and I’m glad you like my choice of bloggers for the example
@JR: Yep exactly, I think it’s easier to get a good technorati authority by commenting than by getting real backlinks!
Great ideas! Keep up the wonderful posts!
Thanks buddy
what is the benefit of having multiple Authority in technorati? i have 12 on my blog what is the status of this figure. thanks.
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Having a good authority on Technorati will increase your blog ranking in Technorati. In your everyday life, Technorati won’t do much, but it can help you get a lot more credibility in the long term if you rank well. For example, it’s much more easier to sell advertisement on your blog if you have are the #1 blog on Technorati…It shows you’re somewhat popular!
thats clear for me now. thanks Ben for the info.
. hope you don’t mind if I’m using the local blog in commenting here in your site, it’s a local blog in my hometown here in Philippines. I fell in love in blogging since i started it 2 months ago and i enjoyed a lot meeting new friends. If you want i will use my English blog for reference next time. thanks anyways. more power.
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Thanks for informing me of this – to be honest I too do not really understand the benefits of having a better technorati ranking? perhaps you could explain sometime or point me in the direction of an explanation?
Thanks for all the great tips. I am using the comment luv but have not thought about the top poster plug in. If I am decifering this correctly, if increasing my rank at Technorati is my goal in commenting then I would need to make sure the blog applied the plug-in?
I am enjoying learning from you so thanks for all the help.
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awesome article… great tips. thnx alot.
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This is definitely something we’ve been working on. Trying to increase relevancy in the blogosphere can be rough, especially in areas like SEO where there is naturally a lot of competition. I think I’ll start hitting technorati on the first of the month now
Thanks for the tip!
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I’m doing it also, I do target the top commentator. My technorati rank make some change
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This is really a great tutorial for me, cause i’m a new comer in blogosphere, thank you.
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I appreciate this tidbit of information regarding authority and top commenters.
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I had no idea Technorati went by the TC plugin, thanks!
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This is indeed a new info for me. I will try out and see how it works. Thanks mate.
@Dennis: It’s not using the TC plugin, but because your link is on the page when a new blog post is posted, Technorati think it’s a link back to you!
@Krish: No worries mate!
Thanks for this info!! I am kind of new to all this. And begging for authority is just not my style!! OK-So I lied…I’ll beg!!!
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I am working on a post to highlight the bloggers that linked to me, helped promoted my blog and gave me authority. Does that violate some blogger code of ethics? It should give them authority as well. I plan on doing that about once a month. What do you think?
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Are there any other site like “Where I Stand” that will automatically download my blog posts. I do it manually on Zimbio, but I never see them on Thechnorati, unless I am doing it wrong. I love Where I Stand, I go there all the time.
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You lost me on that one, sorry. Also, how are you separating your comments and trackbacks…plugin?
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Ms – That’s becoming a very popular style of post, nothing wrong with it.
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Dennis: “You lost me on that one, sorry. Also, how are you separating your comments and trackbacks…plugin?”
The website WhereIStand.com automatically downloads my blogs when I post and I get authority for it. I was just curious if there were others site like that.
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Oops sorry Sparky (way to cute) my comment was meant for Ben….after I hit submit, suddenly 3 of your replies were in front of me LOL
I will check out that site though
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Tanks!!!!!
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hey ! gr8 post. I will soon add top commentators widget on my blog. Thanks and keep posting such stuff
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Ben, I was sleeping on this post obviously. Thanks for the insight. Yeah, I am still in your top commentators and may move up some more.
Keep it coming!
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That’s great information. Thanks!
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Thank you for share the info and tip .Am not to familiar with Technorati and how it is work…your post give me valuable info with that.stick on it..
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