Does Technorati Have A New Authority System?
WOW! Does Technorati have a new authority rating system for certain blogs?
I read somewhere, on technorati’s site, that your authority ranking will reset after so many months, to give other blogs a fair shake at the rating system. I think this is BS and not true for all blogs or mine would not have dropped from the 190’s down to 17….? I have seen other blogs that shared the same rating as mine and were not reset, but continue to maintain their authority and even grow…..I not only have the same links to my site, from other sites, but I continue to gain more links yet still have only a 17 authority.
I have 319 sites linking from Google, 159 sites linking from Yahoo, Microsoft dropped me altogether, and am still on many blogrolls as a reciprocal links and Technorati says that there are 494 blog reactions to The Compass Blog
……So what gves? This Sucks!!!
How many people even care what Technorati says anymore? I thought that I did until their authority system totally screwed me. Does anyone really understand how it works?
Should we even care?
See what others are saying:
Karl wrote a post yesterday about how his falling ‘authority’ with Technorati is actually making him less motivated to blog regularly. Karl is far from alone in seeing his authority drop according to Technorati, as I believe every member of the Top 25 has seen significant hits to their links counts according to Technorati. The Viral Garden is down to 575 links currently after inching above 800 earlier this year. Even worse, Seth’s Blog has lost about 1,000 links since July.
From How To Split An Atom:
Here is a real quickie for you bloggers out there. Technorati has recently changed the way they do ranking. Instead of the standard, “X blogs link here Y many times,” they have moved to Authority. In a nutshell, Authority is the number of unique blogs who have linked to you in the last 180 days. That means, the more actively linked you are the more important you are to Technorati.
This is a pretty good way to force you lazy bums to get out there and link to your fellow man.
If the number of unique blogs linking to you fall out of the six month window (or they were blogs that have been flagged spam), your authority will drop. If you’re sustaining or growing the rate at which blogs link to you, your authority will be sustained or grow. The system has worked this way for a long time, Steve Spalding’s post about it noted the user interface changes that presented the data.
-Ian
Technorati
LOL, well that may be the case Ian, the problem is that incoming links does not equate to blog authority or growth, my traffic and rss readership continues to grow and my technorati authority vacillates. Amount of incoming links in the last 6 months is just a measure of my level of linkbaiting in the last 6 months, in other words it’s easily gamed and increasingly irrelevant. As i’ve said, technorati had the opportunity to become the leader in measuring blog authority and relevance, but the idea you could do that with a single metric is misguided IMHO. It’s a shame that instead of powering things like the ad age power 150 http://adage.com/power150/ that technorati is just a data point.
Saying “The system has worked this way for a long time” IMHO is not a very good argument for keeping a system that is so easily gamed. Where’s the innovation?