Why is my Technorati rating going down every day?
Gone were the days of being on the TOP 10K of Technorati ratings. Gone were the over 1K blog links that I received during the Viral Tags program. Why? Technorati has changed it’s focus. My blog authority has gone down from 517 to 413 in ten days. The Technorati rating will no longer be blog-centric according to TechCrunch.com.
It stated that:
“This is also a clear move by Technorati away from blog search, although many of the media search features have been around for a while. It may be an acknowledgment that they can’t beat Google Blogsearch over the long run, or it may be a strategy to go after a larger potential market for time sensitive content. Or both.
The most noticeable visual change is to the home page, which has been completely redesigned (see image above). Technorati has also eliminated search types (keyword search, tag search and blog directory search) in favor of a single search box. All search results are returned in the format technorati.com/tag/query (example) and show results from blogs, videos, photos and audio files all on the first result page. Users can drill down into vertical results via tabs. Users who want only blog search results can now go to search.technorati.com.”
I guess back to square one for me! Don’t lose hope though – - keep blogging. Somehow, somewhere I know they will realize that bloggers have power.
