Digging Into What it Takes to get Dugg up to the Digg Homepage

Blogging, Humor, Social Networking August 7th, 2007

(I could not stuff that title with more digg & dugg…). Anyway, Clickalite did some digging into how often the Technorati 100 gets dugg up to the Digg homepage. 92 of the Technorati 100 are English-language blogs, and 76 of them made it to the homepage (you know, dugg up on Digg). The leader of the pack , Ars Technica made it a whopping 1350 times! TechCrunch only got dugg up 533 times, and Mike has said before he only gets about 10% of his traffic from Digg - no wonder, with over half a million subscribers.

Well, I’m just a little rookie blogger compared to Mike, but even I’ve made it into the Top 100, and I did not need the “digg effect” - only made it to the home page about 3 times, if memory serves me well.

In fact, I am #1 on Technorati! But wait… is was Aaron, Brownbaron, Sizlopedia, Matt, Shaun, Eclectic Life, Grokdotcom,*  and a number other blogs I’ve never heard of before. Hm… quite a few to share my throne withsmile_embaressed. Turns out this Saturday was “Everybody No 1 on Technorati Day”. Good for Clickalite not having done his (manual) research on Saturday….

Btw, there was more trouble with T’rati that day. If you look at the pic here, I seem to have 0 (yes, zero) blog reactions to my blog. Now, I know my “authority” has been in a free-fall (lost about 30% so far) since moving to Wordpress recently, but how did I make it to even 484 with 0 links?

Oh, well… still waiting for that White Knight.

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* Groktodcom on the messed up Technorati authority:

If rank meant everything,  every blogger who’s had even one link documented by Technorati could rejoice more than they already are after being accidentally ranked #1 today — thanks to a glitch.   f rank meant everything, you wouldn’t have to create fresh, original content.  If rank meant everything, blogs wouldn’t be worth reading.   Everyone would be baiting links (like I am).  Like money, when rank means everything, it means nothing.  Do blog readers really care about rank?  ;-)

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9 Comments to “Digging Into What it Takes to get Dugg up to the Digg Homepage”

  1. shaun | August 7th, 2007 at 4:54 pm

    haha yup i was dissapointed when they fixed the ranks, i enjoyed being ranked #1 for a bit lol.

  2. Aaron Cook dot Com™ | August 7th, 2007 at 7:50 pm

    Thanks for the mention Zoli!:) I partied hard while it lasted!

    Shine on,
    Aaron

  3. AdrianC | August 7th, 2007 at 9:18 pm

    haha well everybody deserves to be number one sometimes.. it makes us all happy. in fact technorati should do this every now and then. especially on April Fools day :)

  4. Brown Baron | August 7th, 2007 at 11:10 pm

    They should do that with Alexa and Google too haha.

  5. Valeria Maltoni | August 8th, 2007 at 2:44 am

    Zoli, thank you for the link. And to Shaun’s point, I am not sure Technorati stuff is fixed in any way ;-)

  6. Thomas | August 8th, 2007 at 4:48 am

    Thanks for the mention, I appreciate it. Always nice to be referenced on a high profile blog like yours.

    Being number 1 on Technorati was fun while it lasted. I agree about taking a screen shot and posting it, it was too good not to.

  7. rod / techfold.com | August 8th, 2007 at 7:07 am

    Technorati is a total basket case. For the life of me, I can’t understand why they can’t seem to get their act together on basic functionality after being in the business for years.

  8. archshrk | August 8th, 2007 at 7:15 am

    Thanks for the linky love. I’d return the favor if I thought it meant anything (coming from me) Maybe I will anyway. At least I could impress my friends.

  9. Dave | August 10th, 2007 at 7:51 am

    Everybody gets their 15 minutes of fame

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