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Filed under: Asides | December 19th, 2007

Banned from Technorati Top 100

4 Ways to Get Banned from the Technorati Top 100.

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19 Responses

  • Sean | December 19th, 2007 @ 11:02 am | Reply

    Hahaha nice.

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  • Josh Boldman | December 19th, 2007 @ 11:36 am | Reply

    Ouch. I guess it’s gotta hurt to get singled out like that. That’s why I’ve found a very comfortable spot on Technorati… I’m Rank #731,678 with an authority of a whopping 11. Oh well.

    Josh Boldman
    http://www.joshboldman.com

  • Monika | December 19th, 2007 @ 11:43 am | Reply

    laughing,
    a sardonic laugh…

    at german there are *top 100 german best blogger*

    I have no chance to come in this list, because I’m a member of the germen support team and so *all of my links* come from the blogroll,
    and yes

    if someone is a best plugin author, spend his knowledge and his time to help others he is not the best blogger…
    he is ***only*** a blogger who creates his links from plugins

    this is not a quality check of “social” networking..

    if you write a good article about Paris – you know the 26 year old girl— you are a good blogger…

    ***************

    this is the “ethical” benchmark from “social” networks…

    sad but true

    regards

    Monika

  • Tori Belliachi | December 19th, 2007 @ 11:46 am | Reply

    What a shame! Think, if you were in the number one spot you might just get more links. :P

  • Donncha O Caoimh | December 19th, 2007 @ 12:09 pm | Reply

    Ah yes, /me banned too :)

    My old http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/ blog has a ranking of 1 too AFAIR and is banned.
    http://inphotos.org/ is banned as well, but it was sweet seeing it rise on the top 100 page before they realised!

  • Haris | December 19th, 2007 @ 12:27 pm | Reply

    LOL! When I read the title, I thought you got banned. :P

  • Matt G. | December 19th, 2007 @ 12:38 pm | Reply

    Hmmmm… This makes you re-think about linking. It seems a little overt. I guess there are some that take the linking into new realms. I love reading your posts. They’re fast reads and straight to the point.

  • Donna | December 19th, 2007 @ 5:44 pm | Reply

    May I ask who really cares if you make the top 100 of anything? Grow up folks.

    That’s what I hate about blogging: the slavish worship of rankings. Thanks for just reinforcing my feeling.

  • ben | December 19th, 2007 @ 8:02 pm | Reply

    That’s rather… odd of them. I wonder if it’s retaliatory for WP dumping Technorati in favor of Google in the Dashboard?

  • Juanpa! | December 20th, 2007 @ 5:03 am | Reply

    “Matt has been unceremoniously banned from the Technorati Top 100 because his links come from the default Wordpress blogroll”
    hahahaha…

    I would like to be in the “Top 100″… :)

  • John Pozadzides | December 20th, 2007 @ 6:25 am | Reply

    Matt,

    I know you’ve been walking around weeping openly about being banned from Technorati, and I’m really sorry for your loss. ;-)

    My theory is that it actually happened in retaliation for removing the link to Technorati results in the WordPress dashboard in lieu of Google results.

    John

  • Rajab Bader | December 21st, 2007 @ 6:52 am | Reply

    So what? I believe that Technorati is not a measure of popularity and success! Matt deserves to be in the 100, but thats how Technorati works

  • Gobala Krishnan | December 21st, 2007 @ 9:58 am | Reply

    John – you’re saying it’s revenge? Hmm, I guess anything’s possible in the blogosphere

    Matt – There won’t be enough blogs to fill up technorati if it wasn’t for Wordpress, so you totally rock

  • MASA | December 22nd, 2007 @ 9:05 am | Reply

    John, that’s a good strong theory. And I totally think that too.

  • Khurt L Williams | December 22nd, 2007 @ 10:48 am | Reply

    I wish my blog was popular enough to get banned!

  • Ben Eastaugh | December 23rd, 2007 @ 3:10 am | Reply

    John’s theory doesn’t stand up to scrutiny since Matt, Mike Heilemann et al were removed from the Technorati Top 100 well before WordPress stopped using Technorati’s results in the Dashboard. I suppose dedicated conspiracy theorists could construe the switch as revenge on WordPress’ part…

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