Top 10 Ways to Get a Technorati Top 100 Blogger to Link to Your Blog or Website
If you really want to pump up the traffic to your blog or website, at least temporarily, just get a link from any of the Technorati Top 100 bloggers. No, it’s not easy, but here are ten ways that might gitterdun for ya.
Disclaimer: I will not be held responsible for any legal action taken against you as a result of using these tactics.
1. Write almost anything that has to do with David Allen’s Getting Things Done, and send it to any Technorati Top 100 blogger who is a GTD fanatic. After all believers in something, will tend to populate an idea.
2. Take a photo of yourself wearing a rubber nose and send it to any Technorati Top 100 blogger who likes that kind of thing. Suggestion, wear it on your nose.
3. Write a post suggesting that reading the blog of a particular Technorati Top 100 blogger may cure erectile dysfunction. Be sure to create a cool, funny graphic to go with it. And make sure to share it, since I could always use a laugh.
4. Create some cool, ingenius gadget hack, and send it to any Technorati Top 100 blogger who loves to write about cool, ingenius gadget hacks. But from previous experience, make sure there are more pictures then text, as most casual readers tend to skim text.
5. Launch a cool, new Web 2.0 company or application and have it reviewed by any Technorati Top 100 blogger who reviews cool, new Web 2.0 companies and applications. It will get picked up by many places.
6. Pick your favorite Technorati Top 100 blogger, and start stalking him (or her). Just make sure you get that all-important link before they lock you up and throw away the key.7. Write anything that makes life easier for iPod users, and send it to any Technorati Top 100 blogger who likes to publish stuff that makes life easier for iPod users. Especially Windows users as a lot of the ipod stuff is for Macs, and there are more desperate Windows users looking for the next great ipod toy/gadget/hack.
8. If you happen to get your hands on any embarrassing photos of A-list celebs, publish them on your blog, then send the link to your favorite Technorati Top 100 blogger who thrives on publishing such photos.9. Pick your favorite Technorati Top 100 blogger, and name him or her your “Wanker of the Day.”
10. Write a blog post in the form of a list, and submit it to any Technorati Top 100 blogger who happens to be running a group writing project about blog posts in the form of a list.
11. He forgot number 11, or he just didn’t do a good job aluding to it. But what Michael Pollock forgot to meantion in this Top 10 List, was taking an existing article and commenting on it, being sure to do a track back so that the author sees this and decides to meantion it.
When I first read this I started to laugh, and then I realized that he was getting trackbacks in each of those posts, and the author would see those and quite possibly decide to comment further or pass it on. But to do this you’d have to carefully structure the trackback so that it piques the authors interest. And more importantly you need to be able to back it up. Doing a trackback like this can garner quite a number of visits in it’s own right. But add to that making it interesting enough to be commented about like what happened in Scott Adams of Dilbert’s blog? In that case he found a comment that he liked and went off of that, causing almost 170 comments to the new post and I’m sure a huge number of visits where garnered and he really didn’t have much to do in making this post.
I’ve found trackbacks do work, but you do need to watch what you do as trackbacks, as spam filters are both becoming more powerful, and less desicive. If you make a spam post, it will use the basis that someone thought your comment was spam, and whenever your blog address is meantioned again, it will raise a flag.
Edit: It’s also good to always make sure you have the persons name right… ie. Michael instead of Mark. So when posting, don’t try to do other projects too.
Tags: Advertising, Blogging, Humor, Interesting, Irony, OpEd
August 25th, 2006 at 4:38 am
Patrick,
I like your layout, but I had to write these lines on a computer using IE. Firefox flipped out three times while your page was trying to load.
I’ve blogged once this week about Technorati, and it looks like I may do so again. This post is nonsense. Technorati IMHO is overrated, bloated and is starting to remind me of AOL in the hardcore ‘AOL sucks’ days.
Yeah, I got a little axe to grind: despite writing t’rati tech support, my blogspot blog isn’t even on their radar! But some goof oblivious to the blogosphere, let alone Technorati, writes something off-whatever-topic on his MySpace and T’rati lists it immediately! I’ve noticed a “crowd” of MySpace and LiveJournal crap on T’rati. It’s not the same as it was earlier this year prior to MySpace being accepted as a “blog” by T’rati.
I think it’s dangerous that one service is becoming so god-like. My blog is just as good anyone elses! I wonder how many other bloggers are permanently ’shut out’ of the technorati system?
By the way, the world’s #1 blogger, XuJinglei, a Chinese actress, was ignored by T’rati for more than a year until SOMEBODY put up a stink about it! (It wasn’t Xu, she didn’t care!) But it goes to show you why we need systems other than technorati to measure the success of any given blog or number of blogs!
August 25th, 2006 at 6:51 am
One of the important things I had to do was play with the different ping services to make sure I got the right combo that Technarati and Google was finding each article.
As for your issues with firefox, I don’t know what that is. I design under firefox, and suggest it strongly, since there are fewer issues with it. I checked the time and the hoster was supposed to be done with their work by that time.