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Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes Something is up at Technorati. For more than a month now I have been having problems with them properly indexing one of my blogs. Despite the fact that it was being updated either manually or automatically with daily digest posts, http://www.bradsotherblog.com was simply not getting its ping through to Technorati. This just isn’t me, either. The first suggestion they made was to manually ping your blog at http://www.technorati.com/ping this works for all of my blogs except The Other Blog. After trying that and a ticket submitted with no answer I finally complained on the post board and the blog was quickly taken care of. They apparently want to take care of people who open their mouths in public a lot faster than they do those who wait patiently for returned emails. Well that one ping they did worked exactly once, the blog updated and jumped from an authority of 8 to 14 when all was said and done. I checked back a week later and nothing since that... 

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Some of us went up, some of us didn’t and some of us went down. Thus is the nature of Google PageRank. While this is not wholly a point of vanity like star rank on MyLot, most of you are making a bigger deal of it than it is. Secondly I am sick and fucking tired of all the whining about how you worked so hard to write quality content and Google didn’t jump you as high as some of us, or in fact dropped your page rank. Get over it people, Google doesn’t give a damn about your witty repartee or insights. Google uses a computer algorithm to decide your page rank not a visit by Zagats. I can see that review now. “Your layout is harsh on the eyes so only 3 stars there. Your content wording was smooth like pudding, but the double entendre was too much for a weak stomach making for only 2.5 stars. Your lack of proper nofollow techniques and duplicate content gave us the runs…  Read More →