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Take That, John Chow!

August 5, 2007 Home, Technology

After many link trains, and commenting on several hundred blogs with the “Do-Follow” function enabled, my site is now ranked number one in the Blogosphere!  Not bad for a site with such a piddly Authority value.

This is, of course, just the result of another glitch in Technorati’s ranking system.  It seems that the site has had quite a few problems over the last few months, and it makes me wonder if perhaps there are just too many demands being put on the systems in place.

I can’t pretend to know exactly how Technorati does their ranking, or the amount of processing that’s required to accomplish such a feat but, without some kind of consistency in the system, people will lose faith in the company’s ability to accurately handle the load.

Technorati’s site is the second page loaded right after checking my blog’s stats.  I typically visit my favourites from here after reading a snippit from their latest post.  I preferred this to the RSS applications used in the past, but perhaps it’s time to return to the tried and tested programs.  While it’s fun to watch the progress of j2fi.net’s Technorati ranking and authority, the seemingly constant hiccups created with their upgrades and maintenance defeats the purpose.

Perhaps Technorati can change their rank update schedules.  An update once a day rather than every six hours would be sufficient.  While the authority and rank values shouldn’t be anything more than a simple agent job run against a SQL database, changing the schedule might lessen the load on their servers.

Has anyone else noticed these issues with Technorati?  Do you use the site as anything other than a blog search or a place to check your ranking?

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