Comments on laketrees: What is going on at Technorati ?????

thanks Ali...good luck with technorati :)have a gr...

2008-06-28T22:21:39.289+10:00

thanks Ali...
good luck with technorati :)
have a great weekend :)

I've noticed a steady increase in my Technorati Au...

2008-06-28T06:19:00.000+10:00

I've noticed a steady increase in my Technorati Authority as well - hope it continues. I have placed the Technorati ping on my Firefox toolbar so we'll see how that goes. Nice blog!

ah yes Debbiefinally clicked with the technorati l...

2007-12-29T11:07:03.549+11:00

ah yes Debbie
finally clicked with the technorati link love post ..thanks to Jos and his astute observation...fancy me doing 10 links haha durrrr :)

Hi Jos,~ Scene 99, Take 100 ~Please click on any T...

2007-12-29T06:54:50.661+11:00

Hi Jos,

~ Scene 99, Take 100 ~

Please click on any Technorati Tag in the footer of any of my posts since September 2007, and the Technorati Tag link may return No Posts tagged.

For example using the current post, No posts tagged South Gare Lighthouse Hydrogen Fuel Cell Beams Brightly is the Technorati headline when the "South Gare Lighthouse Hydrogen Fuel Cell Beams Brightly" tag is clicked today. Tomorrow, clicking the Technorati Tag may reveal my Fuel Cell post.

This is the mystery of the vanishing and reappearing hat-trick of Technorati Tags.

Sometimes I feel like a Technorati Wingnut, Sometimes I don't!

(Sorry, I need to use comedy to relieve my stress of the Technorati Blogging BS)

Hopefully, we are on the same page? If we are than the Technorati Tags of my older posts (before September 2007) seem to be "live" and still "indexed" every day.

Hi Kim,
Looks like Captain Kirk and mission control has cleared your technorati link love for launch!

Thanks to OpenID issues, my true virtual signature link is:
Debbie

Debbie, how do you discover your Technorati Tags a...

2007-12-28T20:52:30.654+11:00

Debbie, how do you discover your Technorati Tags are disappearing? The only thing I can think of is related to what was mentioned in the opening Q&A quotes of this post - i.e. that these tags are no longer on "live" or "indexed" or "older" pages. Could that be the case?

hi dd and btflabnyou two are killing me with your ...

2007-12-28T14:53:07.667+11:00

hi dd and btflabn
you two are killing me with your indepth analysis...
i have just posted the technorati link love ...
now i will try the technorati search tag cloud....
i think hanging from lighthouse cliffs would be a breeze compared to typing with one hand
i shall venture over to the black hole now ...but not looking forward to it as last time i looked i was down to 311 eeek....
oaw=one armed woman

Hi Beginning to feel like a blog-nerd and "OMG" Ma...

2007-12-28T11:50:55.279+11:00

Hi Beginning to feel like a blog-nerd and "OMG" Majesty,

~ Scene 96, Take 97 ~

Just don't depend on your Technorati Tag Cloud to attract more readers!

For example, please review my Cloudy Comment at ~ Scene 94, Take 95 ~

Technorati Tags are known to vanish into the digital Black Hole escaping into the unknown regions of the digital universe. Calling Captain Kirk to the Poop Deck ~

Please, Captain James Tiberius Kirk help us find the Technorati Tags and the missing digital links hiding in the Black Holes of the Technorati Poop Deck!

Thanks to OpenID issues, my true virtual signature link is:
Debbie

Hi, Your "OMG" Majesty,Yes you do use Technorati t...

2007-12-28T11:27:33.365+11:00

Hi, Your "OMG" Majesty,

Yes you do use Technorati tags! If you're on blogger/blogspot, the words you put in at the bottom of a post (as "categories", or "search labels", or just "labels", the name varies), are automatically interpreted as "Technorati Tags". A free service from Blogger! Yippie..

You are using them, and they show up in your Tag Cloud. Using "the right words" in those tags will help your post getting a higher indexing level at search engines, such as technorati's tag database, but also a/o google and yahoo.

So if you are doing a post about fish, and you add the word 'fish' as a label/tag/category, this not only helps your readers finding "all posts" about fish on your blog, it is also a search tag for people on the outside. Many people have set their search queries in Technorati on keywords/tags for subjects they are particularly interested in, so all geeks having a tag alert set on the word 'mackerell' might come and see your posts, if you 'tag' them "mackerell".

These tags will not disappear, because they are in your blog, and they don't 'count' for points or anything. It pays to use the right tags, not only because it will give you a nice big tag cloud (like mine), and not only as an extra index/search tool inside your blog, it may also attract more readers.

Hi Kim,~ Scene 94, Take 95 ~The 40-days rule was m...

2007-12-28T11:08:17.813+11:00

Hi Kim,

~ Scene 94, Take 95 ~

The 40-days rule was my personal observation noting the Technorati's 180-days rule is also a target that Technorati misses frequently. Seems that Technorati randomly deletes the Links to blogs which lowers the TA of the Blog well before their 180-day target.

The 40-days rule is one of the Technorati Black Holes that Technorati refuses to acknowledge and answer!

Maybe, the Technorati 180-days rule or less is a fair way to keep the Top Dog Blogs (Under 10K) producing original content yet, it hurts every new Blogger writing original content who wants to determine if their Blog has any web presence and authority.

Technorati Tags are "helpful (when working)" for visitors searching for all posts on a related subject. For example, visit http://technorati.com/tag/Whaleback Ledge Lighthouse.
Unfortunately, Technorati Tags are more Technorati Black Holes in the Technorati Tunagate!

And, the coastal view from Lighthouse cliffs is spectacular!

P.S. Hopefully, my humorous script numbers like ~ Scene 94, Take 95 ~ are another creative comical way to keep my spoof of the Technorati Black Hole rank and authority numbers alive!

Thanks to OpenID issues, my true virtual signature link is:
Debbie

Technorati Tunagate sounds like the perfect title ...

2007-12-28T07:26:21.540+11:00

Technorati Tunagate
sounds like the perfect title Debbie !
I don't think I use Technorati Tags....and the 40 days rule???
didn't know about that one

and excuse me AR (waltzing the Matilda will have to go on hold due to my left arm limitations)
but another question for H. Mackerel, Sr.
one link in a blogroll=1 TA for 180days.....and a link to a URL post permalink=another? link? for ? days?

ps Sean and Jayden
shouldn't you be in bed ??

pps
hanging from lighthouse cliffs is so fun....but I'll try to limit it to once a week while I wait for this rotator cuff tendonitis.....to get better...
we need a physio in the company...

Give our mom some privacy, please..

2007-12-28T00:42:36.585+11:00

Give our mom some privacy, please..

Oh no, Your Majesty...I just heard the news about ...

2007-12-28T00:32:53.557+11:00

Oh no, Your Majesty...

I just heard the news about your shoulder! I guess you won't be waltzing any mathilda's with me for a while, then...

Take good care of yourself, don't you go hanging on those lighthouse cliffs any more now!

It's such a relief that your production company have been able to reschedule that scene with you, Sly and his dancing Tuna's. Imagine the special FX that would have been required to make you look like a two-armed online artist again.

I am almost certain that your new company's Chief Financial Officer will find it in his stockbreaking heart to approve the HRM department's request for a Temp.

Until then, take it easy!

Hi Kim and H. Mackerel, Sr.!~ Scene 90, Take 91 ~T...

2007-12-27T11:29:33.021+11:00

Hi Kim and H. Mackerel, Sr.!

~ Scene 90, Take 91 ~

Technorati Troubles has been a comical blast,
to spoof Technorati Authority terrible presents and their past!

Jos explanation of Technorati's Fuzzy Logic is the best overall explanation I have read to date about the mystery of Technorati Troubles..... Buuuuuuuuut (a long sounding but) unfortunately, I have seen registered Technorati links vanish within 40 days and the link to my Blog still exists in the other Bloggers Blog.

And, why do our Technorati tag links in the footer of the post vanish??? Is that a 180-days converted into a 40-days rule, too? I thought the Tea of Technorati was their widely renown Search Engine based on using Technorati tags in our posts?

Hence, my reference to Technorati ranking system seems to be Top Secret Blogging BS in my previous comment. Whatever Technorati service claims exist on the web, they seem to have missed the range of their Technorati Target by a few tagging days and miles!

P.S. Charlie the Tuna smells another Technorati Tunagate needs to be uncovered!

P.P.S. Technorati Tunagate could be the secret title of our secret Book?

Thanks to OpenID issues, my true virtual signature link is:
Debbie

hey RRS FishBurner , III cool sounds like you have...

2007-12-27T08:12:24.322+11:00

hey RRS FishBurner , III
cool sounds like you have a toxic situation going on here....
how outrageous!!!
thank goodness I'm not the last to know !!!

ah ha Debbie and H Mackerel, Sr. and Black Hole ...

2007-12-27T07:57:21.758+11:00

ah ha Debbie and H Mackerel, Sr. and Black Hole Investigations Ltd. (LOL)
I think I am starting to see the light !!!
blog rolls make a lot of sense (which reminds me that I will have to look closely at all of mine including the blog rolls on my links page...obviously of little use to anyone)
and I'm starting to get the one unique blog=1 link in 180 days..
so memes between blog friends does very little to boost authority unless it goes viral like the viral link chains and trains and tags....and of course there are those who have removed their viral link trains etc etc ...once millions have linked to them....but that would disappear within the 180 days anyway
the graph has given an insight into it....but actually keeping track of the links going in and out over the 180 days and going back in my archives to see what happened on those days would be a mammoth task....bit like checking who did and din't fave you in the fave trains...I know that was very one sided too....
something like fave 6 people and 1 faves you back
hmmmm...
I think that you both deserve a huge payrise and promotion in fact by the sound of it you both would be fully competent and qualified to work at technorati (in management of course !!)

Kim, your TA is not established by calculating the...

2007-12-27T02:23:52.482+11:00

Kim, your TA is not established by calculating the nr of LINKS to your blog, but by counting the nr of BLOGS that link to you. If I link to you twice, I am still 1 blog linking to you, hence only counted for 1 point in your TA.

@ Britney: you are "so totally" on topic. But - yo...

2007-12-26T22:20:55.163+11:00

@ Britney: you are "so totally" on topic. But - you did it again! - you are 'off-post'.
This is a post about something fishy going on at Technorati. The paparazzi are here to shoot the fish, not you.

Kim, actually, it's not a big secret, but it is fu...

2007-12-26T22:15:19.053+11:00

Kim, actually, it's not a big secret, but it is fuzzy logic. If you take a look at that graph again (which you can change, btw, by changing the nr of days and the height and width), you may see that your TA will drop if there are more links dropping out at the left side of the 180 days window than new links coming in at the right side of the window. You are getting that, don't you?

Then, I gathered, there is also this rule that says that if a blog linked to your blog more than once in a short period of time, this only counts as one (1) link. (for that reason, it is better to have people link to individual blog post permalinks than to your blog home URL).

Then, another reason for changes can obviously be that people may "withdraw" their links to your blog, or they may, for instance, move their sidebar blogroll to a separate blogroll page (I have seen many do that, lately) - and then these links are becoming subject to the 180 days rule. So if people install a new 'blogroll page', and manually date that 01//01/07, because they don't want that page to appear between 'current' posts, the links are 'gone'.

Another thing that is influencing this changes in TA, is of course the changes in ranking of other blogs. If there's, for example, 20.000 blogs that gain a lot of links and therefore 'should become 'Top10k', then it seems that that would impact blogs currently in the top10, right?

And - of course - there is the fact that Technorati sometimes (often?) just 'misses' to register links.

Hi Commander of Technorati Troubleshooting (Kim), ...

2007-12-26T14:43:02.854+11:00

Hi Commander of Technorati Troubleshooting (Kim),

~ Scene 84, Take 85 of Technorati Troubles ~

Actually, Technorati ranking system seems to be Top Secret Blogging BS.

Everyone has their pet theory about fluctuating Technorati Authority.

Problogger claims Technorati bases your blog authority on the last 6 months of activity. Blog Links counted today are smoke in 180 days.

To add to the confusion, another source claims that Blog Links in the Sidebar always remain in your Technorati Authority or Rank (another confusing distinction since Bloggers interchange these terms). Yet, the Links to your Blog from inside a post are deleted in 180 days.

Remember the show, To Tell the Truth? My question is will the True Technorati please step forward and explain their entire Technorati Troubles.

Technorati is supposed to be a search engine so why are some Bloggers Post tags keep vanishing, a reoccurring problem first noted in Sep, 2007? The whole Technorati mess is very fishy, and Technorati needs to be replaced by H. Mackerel, Sr., H.M., You Crack Me Up, The digital Black Hole, Blogfish, or all of the above.

Speaking of H.M., did you solve the R-rated version?

Thanks to OpenID issues, my true virtual signature link is: Debbie

hey Joseg of technorati not following rulesaffecte...

2007-12-26T10:46:26.431+11:00

hey Jos
eg of technorati not following rules
affected negatively by fluctuations...Colin at http://grottynosh.wordpress.com/ has dropped and Pearl at http://fresh-perspectives.net/ and Eric at http://speedcathollydale.blogspot.com/ have both dropped out of the top 10,000 recently where Ev athttp://wackymom.blogspot.com/ and Deborah at http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/...don't seem to be affected and are still rising....

ummmRRS FishBurner , III I think you might have to...

2007-12-26T10:36:52.367+11:00

ummm
RRS FishBurner , III
I think you might have to tell Britney that she has lost her way and is commenting in the the wrong post LOL ...;)

wow Batmanthat's an impressive graph!!!I am really...

2007-12-26T10:24:22.436+11:00

wow Batman
that's an impressive graph!!!
I am really mentally challenged when I look at this !!!
so if these are the posts linking to me and they are dropping out and new ones are coming in my authority still should be rising instead of dropping....

ok I see that the links that I gained on June 20 (25) should drop out in 12 days....
btw I can't tell whether these were new unique blog links....
oh Jos I think you have to be a brain surgeon to work this out

I have lost 50 since November 27
this has never happened before....
I can't work out where the rules have changed and I am getting such dramatic fluctuations
am I missing something?

Kim, I think I am beginning to uderstand what is g...

2007-12-26T08:58:00.517+11:00

Kim, I think I am beginning to uderstand what is going on with your Technorati. First, take a look at This Graph. This is your links over the last 200 days. Technorati drop links after 180 days. As your graph is 'fluctuating', so will be the result of moving further in time, as the links are dropped out of that 180 day moving window. Does this make sense?

talking about 'off-topic', I thought this post was...

2007-12-25T01:02:24.949+11:00

talking about 'off-topic', I thought this post was about me (or was it?)

Now it's official, You Guys Crack Me Up.All I have...

2007-12-25T00:39:24.770+11:00

Now it's official, You Guys Crack Me Up.

All I have left to do now is:

1. Figure out who could be meant by "the one starting with 'R', and
2. Figure out what the R-rated encryption might be.

After that, I will be bookmarking the answers to myst.erio.us for future reference by this non-native non-Indian and non-native English speaking blogfish that I am.