Cureless

I got the badge from Kineda. The site uses Technorati links to categorize sites into A-List, B-List, C-List and D-List bloggers. Apparently, the more links you harbor, the more you become close to joining the A-List.

The Very High Authority Group [A-List Bloggers]
(500 or more blogs linking in the last 6 months)

In the final group we see what might be considered the blogging elite. This group, which represents more than 4,000 blogs, exhibits a radical shift in post frequency as well as blog age. Bloggers of this type have been at it longer – a year and a half on average – and post nearly twice a day, an increase in posting volume of over 100% from the previous group. Many of the blogs in this category, in fact, are about as old as Technorati and we’ve grown up together. Some of these are full-fledge professional enterprises that post many, many times per day and behave increasingly like our friends in the mainstream media. As has been widely reported, the impact of these bloggers on our cultures and democracies is increasingly dramatic.

I have never considered my blog to be among the bloggers belonging to the A-List. However, I can’t deny that my current blog’s high rating in Technorati is credited to the themes I submitted to Theme Viewer. People download my wordpress themes and the link to my site (Cureless) stays in their blog’s footer for as long as they decide to disrespect my request not to remove those links.

This week, there was an issue raised over Technorati about the 2000 Bloggers project which I joined early on. Contrary to the founder’s intentions, I’ve seen this as a ploy for link baiting as I’ve mentioned in my previous entry. I wasn’t really planning to include all the 2000 blogger’s links on that post but in respect to those who have already done it, I got the code which lists all the bloggers and pasted it on my entry. Technorati reacts by saying that … “join us and use these links” memes such as 2000 Bloggers is really a disservice to rank measurement systems and thus this decision to change our indexing policies in that regard.

Honestly, I can’t remember a thing about them explaining how their linking system works. As far as I know, as long as other blogs link to your site, it would register on Technorati. Until after quite sometime, I realized that the system chooses the links it “wants” to register. An example would be links coming from a particular blog entry to another blog. Or links on the blogroll. Or links on the footer. Technorati doesn’t include links from “spam blogs”, “chain posts” and such propaganda that would affect the quality of the content it links.

Those 1000+ blogs that used my themes and increased my ranking in Technorati, I would definitely say, don’t link to much quality content either. The links not belonging to a particular post/entry (the links to my site on the footer part of the blog for example) must also be filtered out aside from blog entries that appear to be spam or chain posts.

Now my conclusion is that there are still indeed flaws in the alogarithms used by Technorati. (Although I have to admit that this flaw has more or less boosted my ego more than self-service ratings on the net.) The “not-so-good” thing I observed is too much reliance on its rankings. It’s just sad to see that the current net businesses nowadays assess a blog’s worth based on these ranks.

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