Boost Your Technorati Rank

Want to boost your Technorati rank without cheating or gaming the system? Check out the sites and blogs that have linked back to one of your posts and ping the Technorati blog directory with their URL to make sure the link registers.

If you wanted to ping Technorati with Sciencetext you’d construct a URL like this

http://technorati.com/ping/?url=http://www.sciencetext.com

To do the same for your site it would be

http://technorati.com/ping/?url=http://www.yourdomain.com

However, a better way is to create a bookmark with a keyword shortcut for the ping form on Technorati itself (label it tc). To do that, open the ping form page, right click in the space where you would normally enter an address to ping and choose “Add a keyword for this search”. It’s not strictly a search but that doesn’t matter.

This will open a bookmark creation dialog. Call it “Ping Technorati” and enter tc or something similar as the keyword:

Now when you visit a site you wish to ping, such as one that’s backlinked to your own blog, just type tc followed by a space in front of the address in the address bar itself and hit return. Technorati will be pinged with the URL almost instantaneously.

You should then see a Technorati message thanking you for the ping.

The next stage of the process is down to Technorati, the site will gather information on the page you pinged to it, and if it finds the backlink to your site that should then give your Technorati rank a boost. Now, whether or not boosting your Technorati rank in this age of countless other similar tools, including Google’s own blog search facility, is worth the effort, you will have to decide. It’s a nice feeling being ranked in the top 1000, which happened to my Sciencebase.com site for a period leading to that site being featured in the scientific journal Nature, so there are spinoff benefits to be had.