Anali's First Amendment: Ping Me Please!:
I've been trying to get Technorati to ping my blog for 18 days now and it still won't do it.
Apparently this has been a problem for many people, since PING is a huge topic in their support section. Hopefully they'll fix this soon.
For this blog, the Technorati site shows:
Notes from underground Last Pinged 25 days ago
and another blog (updated yesterday)
Khanya Last Pinged 11 days ago
And for some of my other blogs it's been even longer.
And if the problem is as widespread as it seems to be, then it means that other sites that use Technorati rankings and "authority", like Amatomu, are relying on incomplete and inaccurate data when they rank South African blogs according to their Technorati rank.
ranked The Technorati people are forever fiddling with their pages "look and feel", which makes stuff more difficult to find. If only they put as much effort into fixing the basic functionality, to make things work.
I don't know about other people, but I usually look at Technorati to see what's going on in the blogosphere right now.
Yesterday, for example, I wanted to see who was blogging about Helen Suzman, who died on New Year's day. No one, according to Amatomu (Search for "+helen +suzman " returned 0 results). No point in looking at Technorati, because posts about a January death will only appear there 3-4 weeks later to judge by the ping rate. So in the absence of any posts on the topic, I wrote one on In Memoriam: Helen Suzman.
But of course I should have looked here. That would have told me who was blogging about Helen Suzman now instead of having to wait a month or two for Technorati to catch up.
It's no use for Technorati to play with the bells and whistles. If the piston isn't connected to the wheels because the connecting rod is missing, that engine ain't going anywhere.
3 comments:
From the moment they changed their algorithm, Technorati went down. Pity but people can't leave well enough alone, as Sitemeter discovered.
Thanks for the mention Steve. Even though my blog is pinged for the moment, I have great doubts about next time. If bloggers in mass all flooded their engineers on twitter with complaints that might do something.
Although, I guess in the greater scheme of life, maybe our joint efforts might be put to better use for something else. Hmmm. Like eliminating comment spam from joshua/deborah? I hate when that happens. ; )
I find Technorati very inconsistent (and I am suspicious of any "ranking" system anyway). Something I stumbled across a while back is British Blogs. It doesn't use any other aggregator and it checks your blog for updates based on the frequency of one's posting.
It sounds like you need a South African version of the above.
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