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April 17th, 2007 by Spud Oregon
After my post about Technorati giving the same ranking to blogs with an equal number of unique backlinks, Danielle asked whether the number of “favorites” affects a blog’s ranking.
Technorati allows users to “favorite” a blog, a feature which could be used to determine a blog’s popularity and therefore increase its ranking.
Unfortunately, as shown in the example below, the number of people who have “favorited” a blog appears to have no influence on a blog’s ranking at all.
This won’t deter me from jumping on the Technorati Favorites Train, originally started by Gary Lee, in an effort to get more unique backlinks and rise up the rankings. Zaib Kaleem, who I’d like to thank for sponsoring Nice4Rice with his Wireless Networks ad, sent the Technorati train my way.
The sites I’m adding to the list are current Top Rice Earner, Culture Shiok!, and Top Rice Giver, FruityOaty. My third choice is the little known Michael McKinlay, whose Super Happy Fun Comedy Corner keeps me coming back for more!
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Here are the rules:
1) Write a short introduction paragraph about what how you found the list and include a link to the blog that referred you to the list.
2) COPY the Rules and ENTIRE List below and post it to your blog. To avoid duplicate content and increase the amount of keywords your site can accessible for, go ahead and change the titles of the blog. Just don’t change the links of the blog.
3) Take ?Estrong>My New Faves Eand move them into the ?Estrong>The Original Faves Elist.
4) Add 3 Blogs that you’ve just added to your Technorati Favorites to the ?Estrong>My New Faves Esection. Remember to also add the “Fave Me Elink next to your new blogs (i.e. http://technorati.com/faves?sub=addfavbtn&add=http://www.yourfavesdomain.com)
5) Add Everyone on this list to your Technorati Favorites List by clicking on “Fave the Site. EThose who want good kharma will fave you back. If not, you will for sure get the benefits of faves from the bloggers who continue this list after you.
My New Faves
Culture Shiok! - Fave the Site
Fruity Oaty - Fave the Site
Michael McKinlay - Fave the Site
The Original Faves
Nice4Rice Free Backlinks - Fave the Site
Work at Home, Make Money Online - Fave the Site
Web 2.0, Tech Reviews - Fave the Site
Wireless LAN Security - Fave the Site
Bobs [ReformatThis] - Fave the Site
Everyday Weekender - Fave the Site
Armen’s Blog - Fave the Site
Gary Lee - Fave the Site
Dosh Dosh - Fave the Site
Nate Whitehill - Fave the Site
Ms. Danielle - Fave the Site
Jeff Kee - Fave the Site
Scribble on the Wall - Fave the Site
Jimi Morrisons Head - Fave the Site
Jon Lee - Fave the Site
Samanathon - Fave the Site
Eat Drink & Be Merry - Fave the Site
The Man of Silver - Fave the Site
Hannes Johnson - Fave the Site
My Dandelion Patch - Fave the Site
Nathan Drach - Fave the Site
SiteLogic - Fave the Site
Julies Journal - Fave the Site
Stephen Fung - Fave the Site
Ed Lau - Fave the Site
QMusings - Fave the Site
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Posted on April 17th, 2007 in Blog Promotion.
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The number of favorites may not change your ranking, but the number of links on the train definitely does! I’ve gone up over 200,000 spots since this train began.
Good luck, and thanks for keeping the train going!
200K?! Wow, that’s incredible! It is a shame though that Technorati doesn’t use the number of favorites in its rankings. Maybe it would be too easy to abuse.
Hey Nick,
Thank you very much for another train branch!
Welcome Aboard Spud! CHOO CHOO!!!!
The real train is the number of links you’ll get from people who will repost the train. Pretty much on the number of blogs that link to you matters in Technorati ranking.
Thanks Spud!
Surely the train will take us all somewhere…
The number of people that favorite you can put you in the Top 100 page like Gary. That should do something for traffic.
Actually, I didn’t realize that Technorati had a top 100 list for most favorited sites. So, there is merit in favoriting after all!
hi i had add ur site to my favorites in technorati please add mine
my url is
http://technorati.com/blogs/http%3A%2F%2Fsanta-reviews.blogspot.com
As you request Santa!
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Wow, awesome. Thanks.
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