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How to increase your Technorati authority
I 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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Actually, I never cared about the Technorati Authority etc. But then if it is so easy then what the heck!
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Yes I noticed that I got some Technorati authority from this.
However after 180 days you lose the authority. This appears to be the case even if you drop off the top commenters list and then get back on it.
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What a great tip! Real glad someone pointed me to your blog, albeit to a different post.
Great post with nice examples. One question, if I get 10 links from blogger.com does that count as a single authority?
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Thanks for sharing with us!I didn't know that we can also do something by commenting. I thought its only for blogs.
I never really knew much about Technorati until now, but it seems like with some good commenting work you can make good with them. I really like Top Commentors plugins because they encourage discussion and activity, but now there's even another reason why Top commentors is cool.
that's great article and Great ideas! Keep up the wonderful posts!
oohh…it stumbled upon this rating website recently…b of that my rate is still small
Ahah! I think I've got it now…well, maybe I can start getting those numbers back up again. Thanks for the tips.
Hi Ben!
I can't claim my blog on technorati coz I got a poblems with timeup error (as by techno report). Please give me a solution.
Technorati is really an awesome website and tool to increase your traffic and ratings. This tips is really useful for every webmasters. Technorati make a deep impact on website.
Hey nice observation about blogs. Its quite intresting to know. Very informative post. Thanks
Nice technique shown with Technorati. It's not been long since I know about Technorati but I've found it interesting so far and it's nice that they don't care about it being nofollow or dofollow links.
Great Article. There is an easy exploit to being the "top Commentor" on blogs. I will tell a select few.
yea nice Work
I get it but it seems that you'de have to spend quite alot of time getting backlinks. This has always been a problem for me, I hate getting back links but i guess it's neccessary.
Stanley
I have found some blogs that update every 6 months. This of course make the Top Commenter link almost evergreen. I have set up a tickler to remind me to check and comment on those blogs. 6 months is a long time! Great advice about Technorati rating.
such a wonerful and informing site great job
Wow! i found that your site info is great!
Good hints here. Thanks for all your insight.
Cool, cool, cool, cool! Really enjoyed your post!
Good advice, are there many other ways to gain technorati authority? It’s a good motivator to help your blog writing