Technorati

Technorati rates blogs. I discovered this while looking for things to improve my blog and coming across Feedburner as a more accurate picture of who is reading your blog. You will notice I have had many `unique visitors' and `views' on the counters I added on my side bar. I don't think I have that many visitors so I was trying to figure out what those figures were reading.

Through Feedburner, I figured just that out. Most of my `unique visitors' are search engines using `bots' to pick stuff up. The Feedburner marker reads unique computers that read my blog regularly... The more accurate number since adding this on Monday seems to be between 2 and 4 readers. This seems more accurate to me too.

Technorati ranks blogs based on the number of links to a blog from other blogs (multiple links from the same blog still only counts as 1) within a certain recent time period. There higher the `authority' of a blog linking to another, the bigger the impact on the rating.

I have an authority of 1 (the worst) and a ranking of 4,446,976

My Blogging Mentorr

has an authority of 4 and a ranking of 1,644,723

largely because of links from

1) me (authority 1)
2)Life in Calgary (No Authority)
3) Alex Massie's `The Debatable Land' (authority 154)
4) Keeping it together (authority 12)

I think this is a clever way of sorting out the rubbish. Technorati then lists the top blogs... so if you are looking for a good place to search through the rubbish, it's not a bad place to start.