Recently I was asked by a reader for some ideas on improving the Technorati rank of a blog. Ultimately it is good content that will increase the Technorati rank of your blog. Technorati rank is based on the amount of links aiming at your blog, particularly from blogs with high authority on Technorati. So if you are writing about content that you readers enjoy, you are going to get more links. Of course exposure is also an issue, if your blog is new, your readership is likely to be much smaller than more established blogs, so with less exposure, even well written interesting content is going to take time to work it’s charm on your rank.
Here are a few tips to get things moving:
Claim your blog
You need to create a Technorati account and claim your blogs. The process of claiming involves filling out a form about your blog. It is important that you put in some effort here, include as many relevant tags as you can think of, and write a good description.
Add a photo/avatar to your profile in Technorati
All the search results on Technorati have a small space for a photo or avatar of the blogger of that article. If you have added a photo to your profile the photo will be displayed in search results on the site. This will make your site stand out and may help get you a few more clicks.
Tag your posts
Make sure you are tagging your posts. In Wordpress you can use Simpletags or Ultimate Tag Warrior.
Pinging
Make sure your blog in pinging Technorati. In Wordpress you can check what sites your blog in pinging by checking: Options / Writing / Update services. If you have never changed this setting it will probably have Pingomatic listed, which is good. Pingomatic does the job for you, pinging all the important services. If there is nothing in this box you should add this address: http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ . With other blogging platforms you will need to find out how to ping Technorati and other important services automatically. I have experimented using other pinging services as you can add as many as you want. But from what I have found unless your blog is in another language simply using Pingomatic will give you the best results. If you are writing in another language you should also consider using Pinggoat, which pings additional sites.
For further reading on this topic Eric Giguere has listed 10 steps to increase your Technorati ranking.
Eric
This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title Design. Thanks for informative article
Software Testing Zone
This is something I was looking or a long time. Nice article on how to build your Technorati Ranking. I think I will give them a try. Thanks for posting
Mark Putnam
thanks for the tips I see my authority increase slowly but surely at my blog http://lamenews.blogspot.com/
unish
keep on giving tips like this.thanks
fedmich
Thanks for the tips
Ikki
I tried to add my avatar but got an error
Apparently, it’s a folder permission that needs to be changed or something like that xD
Anyways, you have some pretty good tips! You can also increase your ranking if other techorati bloggers link back to you in their sites
Bill
Thanks for the important tips! I appreciate all of the help. I look forward to reading more posts.
Jeff from No Fax Payday Loans
Great ideas for up-ing my rank. I will have to do some of these for sure.
TeasasTips
Technorati is an important blogging resource…I googled “how to increase technorati” and you were at the top. Thanks for the info.
Kevin from Paydayloans
I would also make sure to write a post about any other blog you have on any new ones you make. this way you get link back from own sites and it is picked up by technorati.
jeff from Cheap Mp3 players.
If you can get people to write post about your blog it also helps alot in technorati. You increase traffic from technorati and might get more traffic from other blogs.
tony from Cheap web hosting package.
If you know other people with thier own blogs you can ask them to write a post about your blog. This also helps your technoranti rank. make sure to use some terms people search for when listing blog in technorati also.
Mathew from High yield savings account.
The best way to increase technorati rank is links from other blogs. If your mentioned in another blogs post it helps more than anything. Trackbaks might help but when someone lists your blog as the person who wrote article or has more info in thier post you get the most from that.
tom from Phone service
If you can get people to trackback or list your blog in a post it also helps technorati rank. the more people that write about it the better.
Rob from Designer Clothing
Do not know how these are going to improve the rank. The rank only improves when you gain backlinks from another technorati registered site, which should be the main concern.
Bronto
I was looking for the “best” and the simplest article on increasing my technorati rank as its almost none!
Hopefully this page shooted up first on google.
Thanks for the information.
mark from Router bits
If you can get someone to link to your blog in a nother blog post it should help also. Just make sure the post is same topic as blog and lists your blogs main url.
Leon Huang from Singapore Photography
Great tips! I think mark’s right too, getting some links should help as well.
jack from home depo
I have to try the tag warrior program that looks interesting. Thanks for the tips i never get much traffic from technorati.
marry from datingservices
Thanks i did not tags post yet and will see if it helps my technorati rank. I also need to see what ping service i have
Dharma from Bali Wedding
wow..forgot about technorati.. didn’t open it for so long…
jack from exon mobil
I never thought about adding photo. Seems like it could help or use one that gets attention.
rick from 32 lcd tv
I think figureing out terms or tags make a big difference. Not sure wht photo does but rest of ideas are good ones.
jack from Uk web hosting
The tags you use and pinging can make a difference in your rank. Make sure that the site is pinged for each new post so technorati list them or you will not get all the traffic you can from the site.
aaron bradford
Thanks for the helpful info, I already tag my posts but I wasn’t aware that it was picked up by Technorati… I am now!
Thanks again
Tom from Surveys For Money
I totally forgot to claim my latest blogs on technorati. I am going to do that now, and try to increase their Technorati rank!
aie
i did it all and still my technorati rank is 1 weeeeeeeeeeee
any other tips?
jenfer from payday loans
hmm…some time before technorati blogs was not working… but now its fine and but they are not allowing for new account creation.this is a fantastic blog post and i follow all this tricks.. nice
Ling
Okaaaaay, I just read the “do not bother wasting my time by thanking me for a post” – but I was just genuinely thanking you for your post!!!! Oh well, in that case, you have a spelling / grammar error on the section on pinging…you wrote “Make sure your blog IN pinging technorati…” is IN supposed to be IS??