Okay, so I thought I'd just begin a new discussion dedicated to Technorati's ranking/authority system.

Without wasting anymore time, let's just jump right into the ways to improve it.

What technorati looks for is backlinks, as we've established. Now, they say that they won't count any backlinks from the same url, or subdomain... but you'll soon learn otherwise.

Objective:
What we need to do is ping Technorati with as many URLs as possible. These URLs will be from my blog or site as well as any other blog or site containing my URL.

First:
We need a tool to see all of our internal links. For instance, I have www.openjason.com and www.openjason.com/2008/01/22/joomla-15-is-now-stable/, etc.

That tool is: LinkSleuth. You can find LinkSleuth here: home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html#Download

After you download and install, you simply type in your URL and it generates a complete link structure of your blog or site, and is exportable. So, export to a Tab separated file...

Second:
If you know of any blogs or sites that have you on their blogroll (or your URL on every page of their site), LinkSleuth that site too. So, if I’m on your blogroll, I’d get every link your site outputs…

Third:
Find all current backlinks, or blogs/sites that already link to you. There’s several sites that help you to do this. But I found that XinuReturns give me the information I need to have. Basically xinureturns checks your site for authority, del.ici.ous links, PR, backlinks, etc… Run xinureturns against your blog or site. You’ll see how many backlinks you have according to Google, Yahoo, etc… However you choose to get a list of all your backlinks will work just fine… I suggest going to the Yahoo backlinks simply because you can easily export all of your backlinks to a tab separated file, which is what we’re working with anyway.
Link to XinuReturns: xinureturns.com/

Now what?

Okay, now that we’ve compiled a list of hundreds, or thousands of links, we need to get the “pinged.” How do we do this? Well, there’s a couple of ways…

1. sebastians-pamphlets.com/increase-your-technorati-reputation/ - this tool allows you to submit several URLs at the same time. This is an excellent tool, so cheers to our friend Sebastian.
2. A little more complex way to do it… and without bogging down other peoples servers is to use the Imacros extension for firefox. If you go this route, all you need to do is open the Imacros console, choose the “#current.iim” file, tab over to EDIT the file, which will open Notepad, and then enter all of your links like this:

URL GOTO=http://www.technorati.com/ping/?url=http://peppe-garibaldi.stumbleupon.com/tag/open-source/
URL GOTO=http://www.technorati.com/ping/?url=http://jasontmartinez27.stumbleupon.com/tag/web-design/
URL GOTO=http://www.technorati.com/ping/?url=http://www.sleepdynamictherapy.com/category/sleep-drugs/
URL GOTO=http://www.technorati.com/ping/?url=http://www.webanalyse.fr/webanalyse/index.php?detail=all
URL GOTO=http://www.technorati.com/ping/?url=http://www.sleepdynamictherapy.com/category/sleep-apnea/
URL GOTO=http://www.technorati.com/ping/?url=http://jasontmartinez27.stumbleupon.com/tag/albuquerque/
URL GOTO=http://www.technorati.com/ping/?url=http://jasontmartinez27.stumbleupon.com/tag/open-source/
URL GOTO=http://www.technorati.com/ping/?url=http://joelm-citycenter.stumbleupon.com/tag/open-source/
URL GOTO=http://www.technorati.com/ping/?url=http://www.webanalyse.fr/webanalyse/index.php?Top=200305
URL GOTO=http://www.technorati.com/ping/?url=http://www.webanalyse.fr/webanalyse/index.php?Top=200102

What we’re doing here is pinging technorati in an automated way, but as if we were doing it manually. If you’re even slightly familiar with Excel, you’ll easily be able to get all of your links to look like this. I have an Excel Template that will do this for you easily and quickly. Let me know if you want it. All you do is copy/paste your URLs in the opened Notepad document. Very easy to do.

Now, all you do is sit and wait. You’ll ping technorati with tons of URLs, many in which won’t be discovered by Technorati, therefore it’s NEW content as far as their concerned.

You can also do several other things that will really help…
For one, as your stumbling around, take note of blogs your run into. Drop off a comment or two on random posts, frequently. Once you make a comment, make sure that your comment is published (sometimes you’ll see that it needs to be moderated) and grab the URL of the post. Now, go to www.technorati.com/ping and enter that URL. Hopefully you made your comment on the post before Technorati discovers it. If so, you’ll see some Technorati love… because you’ll have a site linking to you.

As I’m stumbling, I always look at the blog’s ranking on Alexa and Compete, using the firefox extension called “searchstatus,” found here: www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/
If the blog in which I’m commenting has a good rank, I’ll leave a comment. If not, I’m more likely to skip over it. To be honest, I should just leave a comment everywhere… it’s probably a better route to go… Why? Well, because a lot of times, the less known blogs haven’t had their posts discovered by Technorati… therefore, you comment on them, then get them discovered, just in time to enjoy the Backlink Love!

Comments/Questions?

Also... as far as gaining more FAVS... I believe this to help a little bit, but not as much as the backlinks. Either way, click this link to add openjason to your FAVS... Thanks!
www.technorati.com/faves/?add=http://www.openjason.com

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