Recently, Technorati introduced the Technorati Authority. It is the number of blogs (not links) linking to a website in the last six months. The higher the number, the more Technorati Authority the blog has.
In addition to Authority, there is also the Technorati Rank. It is calculated based on how far you are from the top. The blog with the hightest Technorati Authority is the #1 ranked blog. The smaller your Technorati Rank, the closer you are to the top.
So, who is currently the most authoritative blogger in the Oracle blogosphere? To answer this question, which somehow I had a feeling to who that would be, I have compiled a list of blogs that are aggregated by OraNA.info and that have a Technorati Authority of 2 or more. I then sorted the list by Technorati Authority in a descending order.
Obviously, blogs that are not aggregated by OraNA.info or that do not have an authority yet are not included in the list. Without further ado, here is the list:
Note: The Technorati Authority and Rank numbers are not constants, they are dynamic by definition. The best way to increase your Authority is to write things that are interesting to other bloggers so they’ll link to you.
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How does one get his/her blog added to the OraNA collective?
May 10th, 2007, at 6:26 am #Don, just ask.
May 10th, 2007, at 7:24 am #Hi Eddie,
Nice place… 13th!
My blog didn’t get authoritied yet (for a long time) bu I don’t know why…
Dimitri
May 10th, 2007, at 2:21 pm #Dimitri, I was also surprised why Technorati has not assigned an “authority” to your excellent blog.
May 10th, 2007, at 5:17 pm #Interesting list, Eddie. Thanks for compiling it. I think that there are a large number of blogs that don’t register with Technorati, which means that any indices driven by their statistics may understate real “authority” (whatever that means).
Nonetheless, keep up the good work. Always something interesting or fun to read here.
Regards,
May 10th, 2007, at 5:27 pm #Steven Chan, Oracle
Steven, I think you’re right. a great example of a missing “authority” (as of today) is Dimitri’s blog. I have found the following three FAQs helpful in understanding how Technorati indexing works:
Links from other blogs not showing up in search?
My posts are not indexed and my post tags aren’t either. What can I do?
How do I get indexed? or better indexed?
Thanks for your encouragement and I’m glad that you find interesting or fun things to read here
May 10th, 2007, at 9:29 pm #Not a surprise as to who’s top but would have expected JLewis to be a close second.
Some surprises there as I would have thought there are others who should be higher but then I realize that my scope in reading blogs is limited to Oracle Tech Stack but not to their programming tech.
May 12th, 2007, at 9:42 am #I don’t really know what the old Technorati system was and don’t precisely understand how the new system differs or whether it is better.
However, if it results in placing my humble blog at joint 20th in this illustrious company, then my life is complete
Almost.
May 14th, 2007, at 4:25 pm #I already requested to include http://www.itexpertscentral.com. Please let met know if it’s already added to the aggregator.
May 19th, 2007, at 6:17 pm #Stupid question alert: Eddie, how did you create that spreadsheet? I’m asking because I would like to see the same information for SQL Server bloggers.
May 30th, 2007, at 2:31 pm #Andy, I got the list of all the Oracle bloggers aggregated by OraNA.info, imported it into Google spreadsheet, queried the Technorati authority and rank for each bog, sorted and published the result here using the embed feature of Google spreadsheet.
May 30th, 2007, at 10:19 pm #Hi Eddie,
My Blog finally got authorized by Technorati.
I’m not doing to bad
Dimitri
May 31st, 2007, at 12:13 am #Dimitri, it’s about time. An authority of 27 is not bad at all. Keep up the good blogging and the links flowing (and the authority growing).
May 31st, 2007, at 12:25 am #My blog @ http://www.itexpertscentral.com has Technorati Authority of 18 and agreggated by OraNA.info but it’s not in the list. Are you going to update the list?
May 31st, 2007, at 5:27 am #Mark, I’m not going to update the list as it is a full time job to keep the list up to date. I may however publish an updated list in the future.
May 31st, 2007, at 9:06 am #Thanks Eddie! I’m looking forward for the updated list =)
June 4th, 2007, at 7:31 am #G’day Eddie
If you’d like a hand updating the list I’ll be happy to help you in the near future. I’m currently blocked out till mid August, so what say we schedule a date in then, divide the work by two and go through the entire list then?
Cheers,
CM.
July 6th, 2007, at 2:35 am #Chris, thanks for your offer to help. I will contact you offline (by email) to see how we can collaborate together.
July 6th, 2007, at 11:25 pm #Interesting list. BUt what about the blogs which are not registered here.
Nonetheless, good work.
August 17th, 2007, at 2:23 pm #