Mr. Gary Lee and I have been pretty close in our Technorati ranking for a while. My rank has been a little ahead of his but my blog has been around just a little longer - anyway, I was just reading his blog and my jaw dropped: Gary just hit 7,325 on Technorati! That’s awesome news!!
While reading his article, I was wondering just “How in the world he did he do it?!” but that was until I read the last paragraph: Gary mentions that my site just hit 6,939!
What?! I couldn’t believe it, I had to check for myself!! I went right to my Technorati page to check and he was right! 
How did this happen? How did our ranks jump from 20k to under 7k over night? One of Gary’s commentators thought that John Chow’s site has been reinstated in Technorati and we were getting hits from John Top Commentator’s list. Well, John is still banned from Technorati but we are still getting hits from from him - we always have. My guess is that Technorati has changed their Ranking algorithm - I really doubt that both Gary and I got a ton of high ranking incoming links overnight! EDIT: It does look like Technorati indexed a ton of incoming links from John on both mine and Gary’s sites.
Whatever the reason for our spike in rank, this is great news for you too: If I’ve linked to you, I’m guessing that all of your rank has jumped too! Did it? Drop a comment and let me know!
For those of of you who are lurkers on my site, learn how you can get free linkbacks from me!
Alright congrats Saman!! you deserve it
Great news Saman! Seems like everyone is moving up the ladder. *evil grins
Congrats my friend.
This morning I went back to work on the php file. You know what? The key was in the ‘/’ at the end of the file name you have reminded in your post. I will go to make a note to the original post’s comment thread. Thank you.
Congrats Saman! Honestly, I don’t know how long this is gonna last . . . .I know john’s messing with the system someway . . he’s just not telling!
He did tell, there is a post on it somewhere and JC has been dropped by Technorati, which explains his shift toward SEO’ reviews, though I am surprised he did not ask for these in the first place…
It seems like this is what I see for you now!
# Rank: 3,953 (1,765 links from 589 blogs)
Try refreshing once or twice at technorati and see the difference!
That’s weird, I did get to see the same numbers as you the second time I refreshed Firefox - but the old numbers in IE…
I wonder if it’s a caching problem…
I don’t know what’s going on!
Yea, it shouldn’t be this way! Although there’s some happiness in breaking some barriers, the ranking looks a little too ‘fake’ for my liking now.
I agree, the numbers aren’t exactly accurate, but I have no problem showing off those numbers!
at least you got the screen shot
hehe…
“Arent exactly accurate”
Having some issues with the permalink on this post. Only can access via the comment link, not the title.
I just checked and you were 1974
Ive noticed my rank jumping around a lot, I wonder if they will fix the mess John created with his ‘ping of link love’ and what the ranking will drop to then?
Technorati must have a real issue dealing with this or they would have patched it by now.
BTW Samon, I just favorited you hint
I just hope it holds together long enough for you to get entry to the add networks your chipping away at. I would imagine Alexa is another metric you need to work on.
I have to agree with Lyndon that it looks way too dodgey now, it may not do you any favours with add networks if they start sniffing around.
You could always calm down on the commenting or plug another URL if you have a different site.
From my experience of commenting on JC you dont actually get much traffic, its the Alexa and Technorati boost that makes it worth while.
That may be true, I do need to concentrate on other traffic building methods but it I wasn’t getting any traffic until I started making my mark on John site - and I keep getting new visitors from his site!
Now It’s time to rope in visitors from other sites too!
I’m still muddling along, trying to drop below 25,000.
Don’t feel bad Marisa - YOU CAN DO IT!!!!! I will do whatever I can to help!
Congratulations! I broke 100,000… thats a start
Just checked…..1965 now! This is great Saman, I am so happy that you are having so much success with this!
That’s bananas dude!
I need those bananas.
Congrats on the unreal progress Saman! You’ve certainly blown right past me as I am still sitting around 22,000. I think it helps to get as many people adding you to favorites and then all of the links you get by being in the top commentators at John’s site and others certainly helps.
He taught me to get our fingers a little bit dirty.
Commenting on so many blogs has certainly paid off! I am getting more new visitors and more traffic!
Hey congrats on the Technorati ranking increase! I saw my ranking increase by about 20k, which of course I can’t complain about! Keep up the good work sir hehe
It was funny. Here is what I just found in Technorati:
The Google Bid Gap - Sometimes Less Is More « John Chow dot Com
Search this blog Rank: 5,674 (1,323 links from 499 blogs)
URL: http://www.johnchow.com/the-google-bid-gap-sometimes-less-is-more
Updated: 5 hours ago
You know what? It seems that everyone in JC’s community are just booming way past ahead. .
Wow, I thought you were gaining ground before but this is just mind blowing. I thought you’d break the 10,000 in the next week or so but you have totally slammed this one out of the park.
Go Go Saman!
This is plain wierd!
Does anyone else have a problem posting comments on JC’s blog? I have an issue with leaving comments on a few blogs and I can’t figure why (I’ve tried IE and FF)
It says on John’s when I click ‘Add Comment’
“Ooops…Where did you get such a link ?
Server cannot locate what you are looking for !
The Server tried all of its options before returning this page to you.
You are looking for something that is not here. Please try searching or browsing the archives.”
Can anyone figure it out?
He might be playing around with his wp-comments.php file - I know that he has changed his default (as have I), he might be tweaking it again…
I’ve never been able to comment on his blog. What I can’t understand is why others can comment on it and I can’t
wow.. you’re now at 1,960!! great work!
I’ve given up trying to stay on top. Since we were pretty close, I’ll let you know what happens after the next Technorti update.
I just got link jump as well from 828,733 to 54,093 overnight on Technorati after my bacth coming up on JC site.
http://askax.net/2007/03/19/the-evil-make-my-technorati-rank-from-828733-to-54093-overnight/
It’s been a slow climb for me since breaking the 40,000 mark. Just pushed through 30,000. It’s getting harder and harder for me. Or maybe I’m not doing anything that’s why I’m not moving up like you.
So what will happen to JC now? Will Technorati unban him anytime soon? Does it even bother JC?
Wow that’s a good technorati ranking,
It was fun while it lasted . . .