72 Hours After ViralTags
June 12, 2007 Blogroll, Technology
I wasn’t planning on writing this post until the weekend, but the results are about a hundred times better than I could have ever expected.
Three days ago, I took part in a simple site linking project started by Jimmy at FoundersCafe. The idea behind this is that sites that have lots of links going to them are given higher page ranks in Google as well as Technorati. On top of this, a person’s Technorati Authority (the number of unique sites that link to the blog) will increase.
Before taking part in this second run of ViralTags, I had noticed that my Technorati ranking was going down. The data goes as follows:
- June 7 – 214,810 (24 Auth)
- June 8 – 217,655 (24 Auth)
- June 9 – 223,292 (24 Auth)
Suffice to say, it wasn’t very pretty. Naturally, one way to create a popular site is to be an active member in the blogging community and consistently writing interesting and/or valuable content in order to bring lots of new and repeat readers … but who has time for that?
Seriously, though …. The day after posting the ViralTags entry, my Technorati ranking had jumped up to 159,605 with an authority of 33. The rest of the day (June 10) broke out like so:
- 08:00 – 159,605 (33 Auth)
- 12:00 – 130,048 (40 Auth)
- 17:00 – 129,635 (48 Auth)
- 20:00 – 89,162 (56 Auth)
w00t! for breaking 100,000. Currently, Technorati has my ranking at 70,196 with an Authority of 74. Hopefully it will keep on going. That said, my Alexa ranking hasn’t budged in the last three days, and Google will not be updating their PageRank values until August (which is when I’ll actually be assigned a value).
If you haven’t had a chance to take part in this great linking project, feel free to copy the source from my site. Many thanks go out to Jimmy Huen at FoundersCafe for putting this together, and to Jon Lee for mentioning it!
Comments (4)
hey congrats! i was “woohoo-ing” it when i dipped under 100k in t’rati, too. links are the name of the game…
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Hey, Jason!! Thanks for adding me and giving this testimony. I am glad you left the link on my blog as well. Now skeptics can read what wonders this can do!
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