I managed to break my Technorati rank of 2,000 by changing the main page of my blog to a static page and putting the latest posts at http://engtech.wordpress.com/blog/
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How stupid is Technorati?
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WHOA! Technorati support forums!
heh heh heh heh
edit: Hey, they're running bbpress.
reedit: Me bitching about their incorrect docs and their lack of response.
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@engtech:
notice the deafening silence one you show you know what you're talking about...Not so supportive
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The mind boggles. And the (evil) mind wonders if there's as easy a way to game your way UP as down...it never seems so, alas.
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Are you going to get your rank back? I could cough up a few links if it'd help.
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Oh, just for reference, engtech, that would have caused you to get delisted over at blogshares as well. I agree. Rather annoying...
No follow up from Technorati on either thread.
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@raincoaster - it's fixed now. But it was the same "oh, you've moved your blog url!@#" snafu as when you changed your domain name.
I had no idea that Technorati works by spidering the front page of your blog url. I always thought it would use RSS or something. So by putting MORE links on posts you hide the rest of it from Technorati.
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It should be RSS considering that's really the only way for them to get the datestamp. I wonder if they were thinking that since the posts were in what basically is a subdirectory, that thte blog was in one as well.
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I've come to the conclusion that there are some amazingly bad fundamental design decisions inside of Technorati. Of course, RSS probably wasn't as ubiquitous then as now. Hindsight is 20-20.
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@engtech
Does this mean that all those bloggers, who are assigning a front page to their blogs as a "welcome" or "introduction" page are in essence shooting themselves in the foot Technorati-wise? -
I had this exact same problem. My blog isn't very "bloggish" in that the chronology is almost completely unimportant, so at one point I had a static front page up since I thought it'd be more appropriate, and yeah-- there was no recognition on the Technorati end that any posts were happening. Pretty frustrating, as I had also assumed they would just draw from RSS. Later, I ended up switching back to the posts-on-front-page approach (for other reasons). It's been easier to pretty much just tune out Technorati.
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@shortexact: amen. :)
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Is it me, or is Technorati unreachable just now? It's pingable, but traceroute fizzles out.
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Works for me.
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It's back. Just one of those odd things.
shortexact
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