For the past few days my authority has been going up and down like a proverbial yoyo !!!!
In fact I'm getting dizzy !!!!
Does anyone know what is going on !!!!
Update
Partial Outage at Ping-o-Matic This Past Week
Posted by Ian Kallen on December 16, 2007
If you ping Technorati directly via our web form, it reduces the number of moving parts required to process the ping. It also offers a crawl-time advantage to Technorati members who have claimed the URL that they are pinging for; those pings go into a higher priority queue. However, we realize that most bloggers rely on the XML-RPC ping capabilities of their blog content management systems (CMS) and, much of the time, that works just fine. However, this past week we isolated a distinct but minor drop off in the update flow to us via Ping-o-Matic's XML-RPC interface. The web-form pings on Ping-o-Matic appear to have been flowing to us uninterrupted but not the XML-RPC pings. The problem was resolved last night, all of the Ping-o-Matic pings are flowing in again and we'd like to thank the folks at Ping-o-Matic for addressing this issue promptly.
The significance of this is that the Ping-O-Matic XML-RPC interface is the default ping destination used by Wordpress installations, as well as some other blog CMS'. If that's the case for your blog and it was not crawled this week to pick up a posting you've made, please ping us directly ("When in doubt, ping the direct route!").
Here's a tip: when you see the link to ping your claimed blogs on the Technorati home page or on the ping page itself, drag that link to your browser's bookmarks and put it on the browser toolbar. Then, whenever you post to your blog you can conveniently hit that bookmark. That ping will come in to us directly and, as long as you're logged into Technorati, be given high priority in our crawl queue.
FAQ at Technorati
Q: Links/Blog Reactions from other blogs not showing up in search?
A:
In order for us to pick up updates and links from sites, we rely on a ping from those sites to alert our spiders of those updates, as well as links. If links to you from blogs do not appear in your search, it may be because they have not pinged Technorati yet. To alert us of these links you can initiate a ping for these blogs by going to: http://technorati.com/ping/
A:
If the link was in a post, you may want to check to see if the post from the blog that linked to you was indexed. If the post has not been indexed, then the link would not have been picked up. To do this, please try searching for the post using various keywords from that post from http://technorati.com/search and using the Advanced Search feature "Search in: This Blog URL".
A:
If the link was in a blogroll, you may want to check to see if the hyperlink to your blog is located in the blog source of the blogroll. Blogroll links that are generated via a tool or script are not seen. The blogroll must reside in the blog home page as well. If the blogroll is in a subsection or directory of the site, it is not seen or picked up.
A:
If the link was in a post, you may want to check to see if posts from the blog are displayed in full content in the blog feed or home page. Technorati currently indexes a blog via it's feed and blog home page. If both display summary information and the link to you is only seen in the permalink, the link is not picked up. Technorati respects blog owner wishes to only index displayed content.
A:
Please remember that Technorati only indexes blogs at this time. Thus only links from blog posts and blogrolls in blogs are picked up.
Note:Links from directories, forums, post comments are not seen.
A:
Please also note that the links must be active hyperlinks to be counted.
My 6th post to the help section at Technorati requesting a response: 22/12/07
18 blog reactions here that have not been updated ......
http://technorati.com/search/http://laketrees.blogspot.com/2007/12/top-101-artists-blogs-list.html
plus many many more ...
my blog is laketrees at
http://laketrees.blogspot.com
I have tried EVERYTHING suggested !!!
I also have a 101 top artists list on my blog (based on Technorati Ranking and Authority)...and I have encouraged all of my readers to submit their blog to Technorati....
If you wish to continue to ignore me then I will be forced to tell my readers that I will be using an alternate ranking system....for future updates to my list......and I certainly won't be encouraging any future visitors to submit their blogs to Technorati until you can prove that you are a reliable source of information...
latest post to Technorati Help Section (22/12/07)
18 blog reactions here that have not been updated ......http://technorati.com/search/http://laketrees.blogspot.com/2007/12/top-101-artists-blogs-list.html
plus many many more ...
my blog is laketrees at
http://laketrees.blogspot.com/
I have tried EVERYTHING suggested !!!
Oh and I see my requests are being ignored !!!
If this is your method of communicating with your clients...then it is totally unprofessional and downright rude.....
If you are going to exclude your clients like this you could at least have the decency to tell those you are ignoring your reasons for your unacceptable behaviour !!!!
Response from Technorati
Losing rank by the hour.
Posted: 2007-12-21 15:16:52
Laketrees,
I'm not sure what your question is. http://technorati.com/search/http://laketrees.blogspot.com/2007/12/top-101-artists-blogs-list.html
is the number of links to your post.
To see the number links to your blog you'll want to goto http://technorati.com/laketrees.blogspot.com?reactions
note that it also includes the links to your post above.
I've verified that your authority has been calculated recently at 332. Note that your Authority is determined by the number of unique blogs that have linked to yours in the past 180 days. Thus, as links from blogs age out of this window and new links are added, your authority may rise, fall, or stay the same over time. Also, if the same blog links to you many times in the past 180 days, it only counts once towards your authority though it does renew the age of link.
Happy holidays
Technorati Support
My Response
Admin...
I find your explanation unacceptable....
my authority has dropped from 371 to 328 over the last 4 weeks and is still going down even though I am getting new links from unique blogs every day...
Quote
by lookzgood2me
"What's happened to me and so many others I see is out of the blue after a long time of having ZERO problems,
1) the rank that helps them in other areas has taken a huge hit and
2) sites that I absolutely know are linking to me as of this writing are not showing up when I search. "
and another Quote
by ronni
"And another question: why have the top one hundred blogs remained pretty much the same and pretty much in the same order? Some of them list hundreds in their blogrolls."
It seems to me that some blogs have been "disadvantaged" and others have not...
Sorry I find your explanation unconvincing...
and another response from me
oh and another very vital question ....why are my links to other blogs NOT being recognized...
eg
http://anandbora.blogspot.com/
and
http://anandi.blogspot.com/
just to name two of many...
it seems that laketrees is no longer being recognised....
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