Posts Tagged ‘technorati’

Blog Marketing

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Blog Marketing tips? Well, we have lots of them.
We gave you some on Tuesday. Here are a few more that experience has taught us work well for us:
Depending upon the business, complexity, and ad opportunities, blogs vary in size and approach when devising successful blog marketing. You can advertise directly on a blog that appeals [...]

Blog Site Promotion

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Blog Promotion strategy that is often overlooked involves locating blogs with topics somewhat similar to yours and placing relevant comments in their comment box area.
This can be effective especially for those blogs that let you create your own online identity with the main Web address or URL of your blog included as a link to [...]

Tips For Blog Marketing With Technorati

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Blog Marketing types mostly agree that Technorati is arguably the oldest and most established of the Blog search engines. Ask any blogger, and he or she will tell you they absolutely covet a good Technorati search results ranking.
But before you think of rankings, you’ll want to ensure that Technorati “notices” your blog.
On BloggerTalk, Simon Akers [...]

Wikio Raises Funding

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

The Luxembourg-based Wikio has secured funding for €4 million ($5.3 million).
Wikio is like Digg + Google News + Technorati, still in its early phases but promises to lead the way in European Web 2.0 search technologies.

Wikio, launched in France last June, and currently operating sites in France, United States, Germany, Italy and Spain, is [...]

Forrester podcasts — now playing

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

Now available — Forrester podcasts! These free podcasts focus specifically on interactive marketing and feature and feature a series of interviews with analysts and industry leaders who spoke
at our Consumer Forum in October. Note that we are currently testing this new medium and we’re trying to figure out what works, what doesn’t. So we’d [...]

Blog tag and five things you didn’t know about me

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

Thanks to my colleague Peter Kim, I’ve been tagged so I have to respond with this post. What’s going on? There’s this viral thing going on called "Blog-Tag" where the blogger writes five things about themselves not widely known, and then "tags" five other people to continue the chain. This online tagging game was recently [...]

Google overtakes Technorati in blog searches

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

Gary Bourgeault of Alphamarketer reports from a Hitwise analysis that Google has taken over Technorati for searches of blogs. He relates it to a simplification of the Google Blog Search user interface, taking the user to the search results page with one fewer click.
So make sure that your blog pings the Google Pinging Service to [...]

Technorati Gets More Funding

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Technorati is a great blogsearch.   There, I said it.  I like Technorati.  However, Technorati has hit some bad spots of late.  They’ve lost employees, been overrun by splogs, and have had some recent acquisition deals go bad.
But, they just got substantial funding, so all is good for Technorati for the time being, I suppose.
Blog search [...]

Technorati Is Not Dead

Friday, June 9th, 2006

I’ve read in recent months of the demise of Technorati and the fact that there are just not useful anymore and I have to say, that is just not the case. Technorati is helpful to me in two ways:
Traffic Technorati brings me traffic. At least 20% of my traffic to my personal [...]

Using RSS for Ego Searches

Friday, June 9th, 2006

Knowing who’s linking to you can be a great way to determine how effective your blogging (for your business) has become. Watching your links grow incrementally is encouraging, and can assist you in knowing what your audience wants and what you need to write on to please them.
The way I keep up with who [...]