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Technorati Authority and Technorati Blog Ranking is a popular measure of a blog’s performance. Blogs with high Technorati Authority and Ranking are often considered the top blogs of the blogosphere and, as a result, have a better chance of being featured at Technorati. Being recognized on Technorati will certainly increase your traffic and recognition. Here are a few tips on how to increase your Technorati Authority and Technorati Blog Rank quickly.

Inbound Links

To increase your blog’s Technorati Authority and improve your blog’s Technorati blog rank, all you need to do is to increase the number of inbound links (links from other blogs pointing to your blog) to your blog. Here are several ways to increase your blog’s inbound links.

Claim Your Blog

The first and obvious step is to register an account with Technorati and Claim Your Blog. The Technorati Authority of a blog won’t increase until your blog has been claimed in Technorati.

Now Start Building Links

Your Technorati Authority and Rank will begin to improve as the links back to your blog increase. One common way that bloggers increase the number of links to their blog is to leave comments on ‘DOFOLLOW’ blogs. To help prevent comment spam, many bloggers implement a ‘NoFollow’ on the links in their comments, so if increasing your Technorati Authority is your goal, leaving comments on ‘NoFollow’ blogs will not help to accomplish that. It’s also important to choose blogs that have PageRank. The following is a list of blogs with Pagerank from 3-5 that implement ‘DOFOLLOW’ on their comments. Read the rest of this entry »

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Only 1 out of every 100 readers of this post are likely to interact with it by leaving a comment…

The most common way for interaction on blogs is through comments. Most people have an opinion on any given topic, but fail to express their opinions through comments on blog posts they read. On most blogs, the ratio of readers to commenters is huge, so I got to thinking: what kind of person comments on a blog, and why?

The Upside to Comments

I personally think commenting is the best part of blogging. Comments add value to your blog. I like to hear others’ opinions on what I have written and learn a lot about my readers from comments left on this blog and occasionally, even meet some new friends through them.

Getting people to comment on your posts helps to create a community at your blog. They also help you to be more accountable as a blogger (if you’re not getting a lot of comments, just post inaccurate information or something very controversial and you’ll probably notice a significant rise in comments).

Comments add to the content on your blog. The more comments you get the more content you end up with.

The Downside of Comments

The downside of comments is dealing with comment spam. Most bloggers moderate their comments to combat comment spam and this takes time, particularly if you get a lot of it. There’s also resources and plugins that help to combat comment spam. Nobody, including your readers wants to read a bunch of comment spam. It decreases the value of your blog not only to readers but in the Search Engines.

You’ll also get a lot of comments from people promoting their own blog and hoping to get hits from comments they leave on yours. This doesn’t bother me as much as the real comments spam and I normally don’t delete them unless they are serial trollers. Flaming in comments can be an issue also and you can develop a comment policy to deal with these issues.

Finally, people are motivated more to comment on things they disagree with rather than things they agree with. This doesn’t have to be a negative as long as the disagreements don’t become flaming and name calling.

7 Ways to Get More Comments

Approximately 90% of people who use online communities are lurkers (read without contributing). Only 1% of the remainder are active contributers, with the other 9% contributing a little. So 1% of your blog’s users are actively engaging with your blog and the rest are at best occasional contributers. To some extent you’ll just have to accept the fact that most of your readers will be lurkers, but there are some things you can do to encourage more interaction on your blog. Read the rest of this entry »

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The coupon code for $17 off OioPublisher is about to expire. You have just a few days left to take advantage of this offer. OioPublisher is the Wordpress Plugin that allows you to, and automates selling reviews, links and ads on your site completely commission free. I use it here and it’s already paid for itself, and I paid full price for it. I wrote about it earlier. Here’s an excerpt from my previous post.

If you are selling text ads, ad space or reviews on your blog, this great little plugin (for wordpress) cuts the middle man right out. I recently spoke of my disappointment in the services offered to bloggers to monetize their blogs through paid reviews and ad space. You have to bend over backwards to get accepted to a marketplace that is either very sparse with offers or full of real crapola. The prices that advertisers in their marketplace are willing to pay are insulting and when you take out the commission that the “service” charges … well, you are providing a paid review on your site to these cheapos for practically nothing. When word really spreads about this plugin, you can kiss those services good-bye. Instead of taking commissions from your earnings, OIOpublisher charges a one-time fee of $37 for the plugin.

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