Technorati Dropped The Ball, Can They Pick It Back Up?
Mathew nailed it on the head. The rati doesn’t suck, no, but it severely lacks from being great when it has had every opportunity to do so. Technorati has been riddled with performance issues for longer than I care to think about, has launched new features that seem poorly thought out and are already being done better by others (WTF comes to mind), and is in danger of being overshadowed by a website run by a single person, Techmeme’s Gabe Rivera. That’s... Read More »
How Does Google Blog Search Rank Blogs? Now We Know.
My nightly Techmeme roundup found me learning about how Google ranks blogs in its blog search engine. I always thought it worked just like Technorati defaults, which is by “most current, relevancy”. But I was wrong. According to Search Engine Roundtable… What positive factors contribute to a blog ranking well in Google Blog Search? How many RSS subscriptions there are to the blog, How often people click on a link to the post in search results, How many... Read More »
