Technorati Addiction
I have never been a fan of Technorati. It always seemed so “too cool” for me. But I messed with it a little bit over the last couple of days. I registered my self, registered my blog, dinked around with their pinging service, searched around for posts where I could find myself, and other stuff like that. Wonder of wonders I had 3 whole visitors today from Technorati. Suddenly I am interested. Today I had about 18 visits to my site. Now keep in mind that Google analytics is using a first party cookie so that means that I have pretty good tracking of visitors versus visits. SO that means that I probably accounted for 3 or 4 of my visits today. Now Technorati referrals take on more importance because of their large percentage of visits compared to the overall number somewhere around 21%.
I also had one direct visit from Delhi, India. A direct visit is a visit that was initiated with no referrer. ie the URL was typed in, it was clicked in an email, or selected from a bookmark. So whoever you are from Delhi, welcome. I love web analytics. It helps me be mindful of the fact that there is always a very broad diversity of people on the net. They all have different motivations and reasons for coming to a site, and once they come who knows if they will ever come back again. I hope so, but mostly so that I can have more than 18 visits tomorrow.
NOTE: this post was created with the Performancing for Firefox extension.
Comments
Comment from Manish
Time December 23, 2005 at 9:41 am
Performancing is a nice little add-in. For a much more advanced blog editor, check out RocketPost:
I designed it.
Edit: Manish, I removed the link. A little too salesy for me. Thanks for the comment.
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Time December 28, 2005 at 10:48 am
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Comment from Rich
Time December 31, 2005 at 3:07 pm
I’ve just started blogging and have been playing around with Technorati, too. Seems to me like the most interesting blogging site right now, looking at the point of view of searching blogs or tracking blog trends. I, too, have found the site a bit difficult to navigate. If anything, the help text could be a little more descriptive. Took me a few tries to claim my blog. Pings seem to take hours, not minutes. But, c’mon, we’re talking about tens of thousands (or more) of blog posts to deal with. And this is a free service. What are other sites that have good blogging tools?
Comment from David Sifry
Time December 23, 2005 at 2:13 am
Hey, glad you’re finding Technorati useful! We’re working really hard to make a tool that’s useful to you…
Please send us feedback about how we could serve you better! You can also reach me at dsifry AT technorati DOT com…
Dave