Increasing Technorati Rang - Practical Experience

[spirovski.b]

A week ago i read about a Trick to Increase your Technorati Rank

Ofcourse, like everyone else, I am interested in increasing my rank, so although the tutorial isn't quite clear I downloaded the Xenu spider and tried it.

While searching for a practical example of how is this properly done, I stumbled upon this text: How I Got Banned, Then Unbanned From Technorati!

So the Xenu/Bloggergenerator isn't foolproof. Since the last thing I want is to get banned and then spend severa weeks getting unbanned, I decided to dissect the ranking process a bit. Here is what i concluded:

Technorati has a selective spider that is triggerred when you send him a ping via the http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping. If there are links to your site from there and that particular site/page has rating on technorati, you get a bump in the Rank.
The obvious problem here is that Technorati needs to be informed of a site that it exists, and needs to be informed that the site has updated content. Many larger sites that have specific custom web portal engines don't ping technorati, and their webmasters may even not bother to ping technorati. So even if you get a great link, no dice for technorati.

So, the xenu excersise is there just to force technorati spider to crawl through specific sites which link to you. The problem here is that Bloggergenerator will bomb technorati with requests in an enormous speed, causing DoS protection mechanisms to fire.

Also, the bloggergenerator program isn't free, so i decided to try to work around the DoS problem and use free items. Here is my solution:
1. Go to yahoo and ask for link:your_website. This triggers site explorer to return all links that have anything to do with your site.
2. Export to CSV, and drop everything except the URL of the web page (one in each line)
3. Eliminate pages from your own domain (technorati should have them if you ping regularly)
4. Surf over to your blog page on technorati, click the ping button and copy the shortcut from the Ping>> link. It will look like this:
Technorati: Ping Formhttp://your_domain?url=http://your_domain&ip=1
5. Use ultraedit, excel or whatever you use to replace the http://your_domain part in the above address with the addresses from your Site explorer results. I used excel, in one column I had all site explorer result, and in other columns I had the fixed technorati call elements (marked with bold). Then I concatenated them to create ping URL path for each address.
6. Open up a browser, and paste a compsed ping URL path, technorati will reply that it will search the sent page for new content. Go through the list one by one, with 10-15 minute breaks after each 50-60 pings. Also, if possible, rotate your IP address (reconnect ADSL, use a friends to send half of them)

It's a lot more work, but at least you don't get banned for bombing technorati.
I managed to get only 4 points bump, so it is essential that you actually get linked to from other sites.

Hope this helps
Bozidar Spirovski
Information Security Short Takes

[Bloggeries]

So what is the final verdict of this experiment? Also what do you perceive as the additional benefits are of a higher technorati ranking?

[spirovski.b]

It was worth for me as a learning experience, but not as a direct benefit to my blog.

For others, they have to decide whether it's worth the trouble

I did manage to increase my authority by 4 and decrease the rank by some 20,000 (from 320,000 to 300,000), but so far I haven't seen any benefit from technorati.

Some claim that when you breach into the first 100,000 google likes you much better. Since it doesn't cost me anything, im pinging technorati

Regards
Bozidar Spirovski