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 [...]
One surefire way to get your blog noticed is to produce sometime that’s useful and popular. Some people can do that with their blog content. However, staying on top with merely content is difficult. And, how do you drive the readers TO your content in the first place?
Take a look at the PR Blog list. [...]
Doing business today means adopting ’standard practices’ so that generalized statements are true across multiple platforms and web sites.
Unfortunately, often adoption standards is more difficult than we, as the user, realize. Technorati’s decision or indecision as to whether their bots should index content that falls after a NOFOLLOW link is a perfect example.
The problem is [...]
After Monday’s Technorati story, and the latest gripes, Technorati is feeling the heat of their users:
Randy: I’m asking for zero new features. All I want is the existing features to actually work. Without my results being infested with splogs. Without bogus results from months past. You know, current non-spammy results.
Bloglines as well is weathering a [...]
After my last post, you’d think Tecnorati was doing better. And, while I do see improvement, I need to point out their vast underreporting of blog updates.
PS - I’m still a bit over Technorati as it’s now showing this blog as not having been updated for 207 days and there’s still no word from [...]
Technorati has taken a hit lately in the online press.
Their service had been unreliable.
Their search was full of splogs (spam+blogs).
Tags on your site gave them google juice.
Tags on your site gave them traffic.
However, as of late, some of these issues have been answered with speedy solutions. In fact, the service is now quite reliable [...]
Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo! complained of Feedster’s poor performance on his blog yesterday.
Is it just me, or has Feedster been completely useless for over 6 months now? I have no idea if it’s related to the recent departure of Scott Rafer (former CEO) and Scott Johnson (former co-founder), but I’m amazed at how bad it [...]
Technorati may have a future at Microsoft, if Mark Evans‘ latest post is any indicator.
Stephen Baker (posted the original story)
Robert Scoble (on a similar buy)
Ray Ozzie (read between the lines)
Microsoft has yet to enter the currently intense buying war in a big way. Technorati, while it has some glitches, is a blogosphere leader and [...]
Technorati aims to give you a pulse of the blogosphere. Sometimes they pass, sometimes they fail, but you have to give them kudos for giving it their all.
On the Sifry blog (CEO/Founder of Technorati) he goes into more detail, but there are features that give you more ways to ego-search, keep track of market trends, [...]