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Re: Technorati Redesigns… Again

engtech — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:28:54 -0000

Technorati is a complete waste of time. Enjoy the traffic they send you, but do nothing to promote them -- you'll get the same result.

It'll be 80 visitors vs 120 visitors if you don't promote them.

Being on the top 100 favorited list does absolutely nothing for traffic. Matt Mullenwag said that being in the top 10 popular was less than 200 hits per day.

Re: Technorati Redesigns… Again

webomatica — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:59:26 -0000

Hi Ross - yeah I just did a check on my Technorati referrals for the past few months - the traffic coming in is negligible. I'll still contemplating pulling the tags just to see what the effect is, in the interest of "de-cluttering" the blog.

Re: Technorati Redesigns… Again

rossmckillop — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:59:59 -0000

I've been thinking about this post for over a week now. So I decided I'd check out my own situation - and it's amusing.

From: May 1 - Sept 19 2007

technorati.com referrals:
120 visitors
1.66 average pages/visit
00:01:41 average time on site

out of: 842,940 total visits
average pages/visit 1.55
average time on site 1:24

So the 120 people who came from technorati did spend slightly more time on my site, and had a slightly higher page view/per visit average. But that's 120 out of 842k visitors. I don't have technorati tags on every one of my posts, but I'd bet that I sent more traffic to technorati than they sent me.

Re: Technorati Redesigns… Again

claudio — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:59:18 -0000

i still use technorati for my blog searches, but the traffic it sends to my blog just dropped in the last few months.

Re: Technorati Redesigns… Again

webomatica — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:23:40 -0000

Good suggestions. Maybe I'll start with Steven's while I do research on the "index of topics" from Tish. Some of my desire to remove (or just downplay) the tags is to "declutter" the blog.

Re: Technorati Redesigns… Again

Tish Grier — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:24:13 -0000

oh, if you need some clarification on how that works, email me. it's a little long to put in comments.

Re: Technorati Redesigns… Again

Tish Grier — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:23:34 -0000

you may still get indexed if you remove the technorati tags--one suggestion though: if you don't already have one, start an index of topics. That will act something like a tag system and Technorati will find those, too (trust me, I've had some friends experiment with this and it worked.)

Re: Technorati Redesigns… Again

Steven Hodson — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:06:16 -0000

I renamed mine to Conversation tags rather than Technorati Tags; but then I believe in the tags concept just not their current implementation.