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Five things Technorati needs to do so it doesn’t suck ass

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Technorati’s great. It’s a good way to keep tabs on what’s being blogged about within a given subject, but there are a whole lot of things that suck about it

So here’s my list of things Technorati could improve to be an awesome service:

  1. Get rid of the splogs. There’s a lot of spam blogs showing up in the Technorati post list for any given subject. I know it may take soma manual work in this automated web 2.0 world, but it would be great to see these sites banished.
  2. Use more factors than the number of inbound links to rate blogs. Possibly use the “quality” of the incoming links as a determining factor. (Similar to the way Google calculates PageRank.) A link from problogger.net says more about a blog than a link from an unknown blog that’s been in existence for a week.
  3. Show more info than just the number of blogs that link to a specific blog in the blog directory. The number of inbound links, the average number of posts per day, the average number of inbound links per day are a few things that spring to mind that would be useful in determining which blogs might be a good read.
  4. Show Alexa ranking and PageRank of the blogs in the tag directory. This would be another way of determining if a blog is worth reading.
  5. Pick up my damned posts! I ping, I tag, I stand on my head with a large trout in my mouth, but I just can’t seem to get Technorati to pick up my posts in a timely manner.

These are but a few things that I would change to make this service truly great. Can you think of any others?

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4 comments so far

Ashleigh Potter says August 7th, 2006 at 5:23 pm

I find that if I go to the homepage where it shows the details of my blog the post listing is often days out of date, but if I search using a tag from my most recent post then there the post is. It’s the inconsistency that confuses me. The posts are in the system, they just don’t show up all the time.

Admin says August 8th, 2006 at 1:52 pm

I can’t get it to do either - they generally seem to be four or five days behind - and I post regularly (2 or 3 times a day)

Ashleigh Potter says August 10th, 2006 at 2:15 am

My blog now updates correctly on Technorati - we have our blog hosted in the “/blog” directory of the domain, and since my co-blogger amended the redirect from the homepage to the “/blog” folder to a http redirect it’s all working. We’ve also been spidered in Google since the change.

Have you tried putting the Technorati ping address specifically in your ping list (rather than relying on an aggregator - such as Pingomatic)?

Admin says August 10th, 2006 at 2:50 am

“Have you tried putting the Technorati ping address specifically in your ping list (rather than relying on an aggregator - such as Pingomatic)?”

Done that, tried services such as Ping Goat too.

Oh well, traffic is slowly growing without Technorati, I’m not that fussed, I’ll just keep cruising and see where things go. :-)

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