How to Make Friends With Technorati

A Few Tips on Making Sure You Have the Right Score

Posted by Charlie Moran on 08.12.08 @ 04:08 PM

With all the emails we've been getting about Technorati issues, we're starting to feel a bit like Santa, except, you know, the Santa that everyone hates, aka Don Imus. So we thought we'd save all of us some time and also shine some light on why some people's scores have been dropping mysteriously.

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New Metric, FAQ and Submission Screen

How our Makeover Affects You

Posted by Rahmin Pavlovic on 06.06.08 @ 10:41 AM

After a long season wearing the same outfit, the Ad Age Power 150 puts on some new clothes.

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Technorati API Problems

Or, Why I Dropped 100 Points in a Day

Posted by Rahmin Pavlovic on 06.05.08 @ 06:18 AM

Every morning (at about 4am EDT) our spider crawls the list of Power 150 blogs, fetches a variety of rankings for each, totals them all and then scrunches them down into a nice, friendly score. (Hooray, score.)

The last couple of days, however, Technorati's Bloginfo API has been choking during the update. On Tuesday, June 3, we received nothing for Technorati Rank, Authority or inbound links. However, on Wednesday, June 4, Rank was the only metric to barf.

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Welcome to the Power 150 Blog

... Now Get Out

Posted by Charlie Moran on 06.04.08 @ 03:26 PM

Since we started the Power 150 less than a year ago, we've made subtle and not-so-subtle changes along the way, and we've done our best to let our bloggers know about what's been going on. However, sometimes there's smaller tweaks or other service updates that we'd like to keep everyone -- both bloggers and readers -- abreast of, so we're starting this blog.

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