Comments on: Technorati and the liblog landscape http://walt.lishost.org/2008/10/technorati-and-the-liblog-landscape/ The library voice of the radical middle. Wed, 22 May 2013 20:18:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2008/10/technorati-and-the-liblog-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-34237 walt Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:44:26 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=877#comment-34237 I don’t think of Technorati as the gold standard so much as it is the only game in town.

As for the Blogger/Blogspot problem: I wonder if that’s related to the fact that SiteAdvisor frequently flags Blogspot blogs as dangerous places to visit–presumably because there are a lot of splogs and phishing blogs on Blogspot? I know Technorati takes pains to exclude splogs; they may be sweeping up a few hundred thousand legit blogs along with a few million illegitimate blogs. I have no knowledge in this area–but I am seeing that McAfee SiteAdvisor red flag more and more when a list post or email has a link to a Blogspot blog.

]]> By: Lazygal http://walt.lishost.org/2008/10/technorati-and-the-liblog-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-34236 Lazygal Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:33:39 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=877#comment-34236 Walt, one other problem with their message: they’re having serious issues with indexing and updating. I know this because my blog (and many others that I follow) are not getting updated regularly; I’ve had to e-mail their support people five times in the past two months to get properly indexed. Now, I don’t care about “reach” or “ranking” for my blog, but many do and many think that Technorati is the gold standard… but if you’re using Blogger/Blogspot, it’s more like the iron pyrite standard these days.

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