Time for another test folks! I want to see whether or not having me in your Technorati favorites increases the ranking of my blog. Here's a screenshot of my current ranking, just so that you know that I'm not trying to pull the wool over your eyes:
If you haven't already joined, I would highly recommend Technorati. Here's the link to add me to your Favorites:
Here's my promise to you… I will add all of you to my favorites as soon as I see that you've added me. Next week, I'll take a look at the ranking and post the ranking after some folks add me.
I don’t think they count – they’re just another way to promote elitism in the blogosphere, I think.
(And yes, I favourited myself!)
Good idea for a test Doug, added you as a favorite. Let’s see if it makes a differenc.
As far as I am aware, it doesn’t count.
Have added you to my favorites, since I am anyway subscribed via RSS 🙂
I think you folks are correct. I’ve gotten a couple more references to my site so my ranking has gone up; however, it doesn’t appear that the favorites have affected it.
Interestingly enough though, I did make one of the folks who selected it as a favorite one of my favorites and I believe it did help his ranking. But he was ranked in the 900,000+ range. After I marked him as a favorite, he moved up to about 844,000.
Perhaps it only assists in the ranking when you are not referenced from any other blogs? Hmmm.
It is a good thing for me that favorites don’t count, or I would be nowhere in the ranking!
BTW, your anti-spam word is not visible in IE7. You really need to stop using it 🙁
Bad accessibility.
SEOmoz is doing some testing along these lines:
SEOmoz Technorati Top 100