Blog Tip: Creating a Blog Maintenance Start Page with Netvibes

In Blogger GTD, Leo mentioned that it was a good idea to have one inbox for all your blogging related notifications. I hate cluttering in my inbox, but I do agree that it makes sense to have a single point of reference rather to spend 5 minutes checking some information in one place and then spend 5 minutes checking information in another place. As Skelliewag says, those 5 minutes add up over the course of a day and by the end of it you’ve wasted an hour.

Directing everything to my inbox would never work for me, but it is possible to have a single start page for all your blog maintenance activities using Netvibes.

Opting Out of Technorati - The Break-up

Breaking up is hard to do, but it’s over between me and Technorati.

I’ve spent far too many lonely nights wondering why you never link me anymore… it’s time for a fresh start.

Are Bloggers Being Gamed? - Fixing the Technorati Favorites Feature

If you don’t blog, you probably want to skip this post as it is a hardcore geek out.

Technorati Program - Automatically Favorite Anyone Who Favorites You

What is Technorati Favorite Your Fans?

This is a program that connects to the Technorati.com service, finds everyone who has favorited your blog and automatically favorites them back.

But Why Use This?

If someone has gone to the trouble of adding you to their favorites, this program will return the favor, without requiring you to go through all of the people who have favorited you and trying to find the ones you haven’t favorited back. This is something people already do, and this program is intended to save them time by automating the process.

Technorati Favoritism - Trading Favours

There are Technorati favorites link exchange programs like the one proposed by Dosh Dosh. He wants to get into the Technorati Top 10 most favorited and track if there are any really benefits in increased traffic. His blog focuses on traffic building so this is a very valuable experiment to get some real numbers on whether or not Technorati is worth all the fuss. I’m proud of being in the Technorati Top 2000, but I feel it is more work than it is worth.

Hack - Display Your Technorati Rank in a Sidebar RSS Widget (Dapper + Yahoo Pipes)

Wordpress.com bloggers can’t use nifty Wordpress plugins or Javascript to doing something as simple as displaying their Technorati rank in their sidebar.

But you can use it in your sidebar thanks to the nifty widget I created for displaying your Technorati rank as an RSS feed.

In defense of 2000 bloggers

A conversation has been brewing about the 2000 Bloggers project. It has been called a link farm and an attempt to game Technorati. I won’t speak for the intentions of the guy who created it, but I thought it was a pretty cool idea to see a montage of all the various faces of blogging.

More thoughts on the subject, and how they could improve it to remove the issues.

Does Technorati Matter? (Searching for Violent Acres)

Technorati is a very useful site for navel gazing and seeing who is linking to you. But how many people use it for searching blogs?

The traffic from being on the number one search term indicates “not very many”.

Technorati Top 10,000

(More boring blog rank crap that is of interest to no one but me)
Technorati is a blog search engine that also ranks blogs. Getting onto the Technorati Top 100 (or the Top 100 Favorited) is a pretty big accomplishment (if ironic because the only people who seem to know about it are other bloggers). Over [...]