This blog’s ”authority” level on Technorati plummeted over the weekend from 293 to 211. Turns out if someone links to your blog their link counts as +1 point toward your authority rating – BUT – that point lasts only 180 days. After 180 days the point goes bye bye and if you were to have, say, 82 points go bye bye at once, somehow, that would – what’s the technical term? – oh, yea, jack up your authority.
Or are you jacked up?
Losing 82 authority points caused my blog to fall in rank by more than 7,000 places – I’m now blog number 21,262. And, well, who cares? I’d be ticked, perhaps, if I were in the top 100 blogs (which get looked at daily just for being ranked so high) and was knocked out of that prestigious club by a sudden dive in authority, but I doubt my traffic or self-love will be affected in the least by this weekend’s page rank stumble.
So, if you’re not in the top 100, does it matter what your rank is? Below a certain number it’s all the same right?
Not rhetorical. I’m wondering if I’m missing something here.
Teach me, oh wise ones of the blogosphere.
Woah!
Just fell to 210.
It’s a conspiracy! Men in black! Helicopters! Spy satellites! Ahhhhh!
They’re taking down Shlog!
Welcome to the Matrix.
I check my rank, on occasion, but don’t really care that much about it. It tells me that some people drop by my blog and some care enough to link to me. But the fact that old links are disregarded does not equate to one’s blog being disregarded by the linker, so I don’t know that it is really a blow beyond the numbers game.
However, as your blog is part of your business, then you have an added dimension that does not concern me with my blog. You want people to find you, and the more authoritative you look, the more people will drop by to check you out. So, maybe it does have some importance for you.
I’ve notice a jump in my authority from links related to the 40-day fast. I’m sure you got some new links from that, as well, so the total number lost is probably more. If it concerns you from a self-promotion stand point, then maybe you should rerun the “link to me, I’ll link to you” campaign you did when the new site first went up; though I’m not sure how they would read old people re-linking to the same sites.
I hate those campaigns. Seems like cyber-panhandling.
I’ve done it before but…
I’m not much help either. I couldn’t tell you what my numbers are at all.
I can just see your next shlogcast: wearing sunglasses, holding a white cane and rattling coins in a tin cup as you beg for links.
Seriously, I know what you mean. I never ask people to link to me, because I’m not going to beg for some sort of recognition that, for me, is more self-gratifying than anything else. I’m not blogging for popularity but because I enjoy the writing and the community I have found. When you are switching sites, well, that is an understandable reminder – a change of address request. Now, it’s not like the mail is getting lost, so why ask for a reminder of address?
I know you’ve said that the stats don’t matter so much to you, that you intentionally ignore them at times. Maybe this is another thing to be ignored. Honestly, you’re participation in this little thing, a 40-day fast, may bring in more meaningful hits than you would get in the same time period from Technorati. So the moral may be keep up the interaction you have with the blogging community and forget the stats and ranks and authority.
I think i am like in the top 1000000000000000000000 or so, if I drop after the hard work it took to get that high I might get mad…lol
What did you post 180 days ago? A flea market song?
MB