Comments on: Technorati: When Will The Traffic Party End?

By: Quod Licet Iovi? « JAWW (beta)

Quod Licet Iovi? « JAWW (beta) — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:38:59 +0000

[...] the AdSense and partner’s affiliated links) Automattic’s global tags page even outranked those Technorati’s ones, which do contain some bits of the actual content (linkbacks at the very [...]

By: Technorati losing Google traffic

Technorati losing Google traffic — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:06:14 +0000

[...] Arrington went as far as calling it a traffic party back in June. Today it seems the party has ended with Technorati no longer ranking for the terms it [...]

By: Making money with Adsense - without annoying your users: Wordpress.com

Making money with Adsense - without annoying your users: Wordpress.com — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:14:27 +0000

[...] pages by themselves… and who wants to see search results in search results? (See a similar argument on Technorati tag pages.) Still, they do show up, although you might need to fiddle a bit to get a first-page [...]

By: Technorati Loses A “Great Leader.” PodTech Also Loses CEO | Tekjuice.com

Technorati Loses A “Great Leader.” PodTech Also Loses CEO | Tekjuice.com — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:00:45 +0000

[...] Google SEO tactics may have accelerated Sifry’s departure. And it does look like the Technorati traffic party has ended - Technorati no longer shows up in the search results for the terms I mentioned in that [...]

By: Death of Blog Search Part 2 - Sifry Leaves Technorati

Death of Blog Search Part 2 - Sifry Leaves Technorati — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:02:22 +0000

[...] used tags to grow traffic from other search properties. As Arrington asked in early June “When will the Technorati traffic party end?” Apparently Google and others took notice of this and the party ended in July based on Alexa [...]

By: lemon

lemon — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:06:06 +0000

It’s a good article.

By: The Dude Dean

The Dude Dean — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:21:51 +0000

Its already too late for them to fix it. Technorati probably got a bump in users that are going to come back to the site irregardless of whether or not its in Google.

By: Iowa Hansen

Iowa Hansen — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:40:05 +0000

The better question is: how do you mitigate against loosing Google’s favor?

By: psychic readings

psychic readings — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:52:32 +0000

thanks for this.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:30:27 +0000

When Will The Traffic Party End? - guess when the next big thing comes along

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:37:24 +0000

Yeah I agree Mike Technorita and even Digg results in google are more like search results if you ask me, I think the people that desverve the best search result are from people that actuall write the content not from sites like technorita and Digg cashing in on other peoples work, what does everyone think?

By: T.A.

T.A. — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:46:40 +0000

I fail to see why Google should index other’s search. Also, regarding the ‘disallow’ note, whatever Google chooses to do with their algorithm, it seems that it is ethical that a company, which is showing a page full of search-links, should mention it clearly. Otherwise it is getting itself a free-ride.

Searches showing sales link (ama zon like) can be pretty irritating and I use the ‘-word’ feature of google search to remove unwanted sites.

By: Richard Ball

Richard Ball — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:09:59 +0000

@ Allen, who said: “most average bloggers don’t understand that fact.” Yes, but many bloggers are also developers or work at companies who have developers. I certainly don’t understand why SEM bloggers use Technorati Tags.

@ Greg - Yes, it was (and still is) a brilliant SEO campaign.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:48:47 +0000

Mmm…I tried Technorati and wasn’t too impressed. I am surprised Google is allowing this to carry on.

By: Motorcycle Guy

Motorcycle Guy — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:22:14 +0000

Google could make or break a site like technorati that is still out of grasp of the general public.

By: Parken

Parken — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:49:19 +0000

No matter at all. Each service will be buyed, today or tomorrow.

By: Google Blogoscoped

Google Blogoscoped — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:21:23 +0000

Technorati Search Results in Search Results…

Google clarified they don’t like when webmasters make search results of their sites indexable, as it adds noise to search results — people click on results only to land on more ……

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:17:40 +0000

agree - not sure to what extent it can grow but it does have pole position….

By: Greg G.

Greg G. — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:40:13 +0000

I think much of the redesigns that Technorati has gone through over the past year were in part to address this issue; if you noticed, they went from a search results type of feel, to a more general content look, including more videos and photos. Google is concerned that the pages in their results add some value to the searcher, and more often than not, Technorati tag pages do.

In contrast, Google has tried to limit the amount of influence Technorati has in the tagging space by launching labels in their Blogger service. Labels are really just tags, with the one difference being that they link back to Google Blog Search results instead of Technorati. Wordpress.com has done something similar, creating aggregation pages of all Wordpress.com blogs for each tag page used. There really is no good reason why anyone should give their links away to Technorati; tags was probably one of the most successful SEO campaigns in history.

By: sp

sp — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:26:50 +0000

I like this post. But it think tech would survive

By: Aidan Henry

Aidan Henry — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:24:23 +0000

I’m not so sure Technorati will be at the top forever. I think their success can (in some part) be attributed to a combination of luck and timing. I do not believe their blog search engine technology is on the cutting-edge. They were simply first to market and are KNOWN as the industry leader. It’s all a matter of positioning and branding, rather than service offering.

Cheers,
Aidan

http://www.MappingTheWeb.com

By: Greg Hay

Greg Hay — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:14:13 +0000

My company blog interviewed the VP of marketing for Technorati about how they are selling themselves. I think most of their success is sort of self-promotion more than actual value. Digg is a much better tool, it actually is a good representation of what is going on, not just an elaborate system of measuring links. I’ll stick with Digg.

If you want to check out the interview and judge for yourself. http://www.dssimonvlogviews.com/?cat=46

By: Allen Stern

Allen Stern — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:08:56 +0000

#27 Zaid - yes, I agree about your last comment, but in reality, one can say that Digg just links back to the original content as well. And (not to get too far off track) but the original post should appear instead.

AboutUs/Mahalo is the same - even though Mr. Jason won’t admit to it - Mahalo is a SE play period. It’s interesting that Mike didn’t mention that at all in his post.

By: Zaid

Zaid — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:48:40 +0000

I would hardly put digg in the same category as technorati. First, I don’t remember the last time google sent me to a digg search results page. Secondly, each time google’s pointed me to digg, the digg story has streams of comments and thus original content.

That is hardly the same as a service that AUTO INDEXES other blogs.

By: Johnny Chan

Johnny Chan — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:13:21 +0000

@ Allen - I agree that it is the same. These things are symptoms of the what Google considers the problem: search results in search results. Should they remove Technorati results from their index, they would have to do that categorically.

This is a reason why I don’t think Google will pull the plug. As search engines such as Technorati, AboutUs or Mahalo gain mainstream adoption, Google will be under increasing pressure not to omit their results. This would be construed as omitting relevant results and would be considered too monopolistic by the community at large.