Blog becomes 12th most popular blog overnight
That’s right; a blog called iLEMONed has apparently become the 12th most popular blog, (seemingly) overnight, according to Technorati’s ‘most popular’ blogs ranking.
I checked the blog’s FeedBurner stats, and it only has 681 subscribers. This alerted my sensors immediately, and so I look around for a minute and found out that the blog released its theme for public consumption a few weeks ago. Since they included a link leading back to their own site, they garnered thousands of links in only a few weeks. You can see those links here.
Their Technorati Authority is currently 9,247; they trail the much more popular celebrity news website, TMZ.com, by a mere 400 in Authority.
Popularity: 35% [?]
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Good eye, Gary. More evidence that supports the argument about sponsored themes.
Just shows links != authority. They might call it that but, well, it’s not
Well, I don’t know. If they have a lot of people using their blogging theme, doesn’t that make them authoritative in a design sense? It all depends on how you interpret authority.
Chris, at least they’re trying!
I can almost guarantee that people would prefer some sort of metric to measure against others, rather than none at all. People want something simple to measure themselves against, whether it be Google PR for very general comparisons, pageviews, visitors, and whatnot.
That’s cool, releasing a popular plugin or theme is the best way to get noticed amongst other blogger, as definitely many people will write about the plugin.
I wrote a plugin called better comments manager to reply to comments from within admin panel and have got a few links backs from good sites for that.
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Technorati removes theme designers from the rankings, when they are aware of public themes. It has happened to Heilemann, Viklund and I think also to Phu.
franky, I am aware of that, but thanks for pointing it out anyways
Chris Pearson’s blog would be on the list to, because he released Cutline; Technorati removed it from the list manually.
In only few weeks? Overnight? Well, Technorati.com is blocked in my country China, so I don’t check my ranking regularly/periodically. But I’ve been in top100 for months.
If the fact that I am in top100 displeases you, you may tell technorati staff to remove me. I dedicate my time to making wordpress themes and sharing them with everyone. I don’t care about those rankings, pageviews, number of subscribers, etc. because I don’t make money with my themes or blog.
The only thing I care about is that everybody (especially those who use/like my themes), can be happy.
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LEMONed is right, technorati.com is blocked by Golden Shield Project in China so I think only few Chinese know Technorati and nobody cares about the Technorati’s Authority. And what’s most important, LEMONed makes themes for free that everyone makes the decision whether to use or not himself.
Imagine Technorati weren’t blocked in China, would that have made LEMONed the most popular blog?
I don’t think Gary wanted to point out that LEMONed games the system, but rather how screwed the Technorati popularity ranking is.
Maybe Technorati, especially with Tantek on board, should only count links in between hentry entry-content tags for the authority/popularity ranking.
It would be a perfect way to make [Tantek's] MicroTags standard (Google IMHO already recognizes/uses them) and make the authority factor more rational.