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Tuesday, 30 August 2005

Technorati Number One

by mike @ 00:51. Filed under

When checking my stats for the last week, I noticed a spike in the number of visitors on Friday. My daily unique visits has been slowly growing to an average of 800 to 1000 per day. But Friday saw a record breaking (for me) 1556 visitors!

I looked through the logs to see if I could see a pattern and noticed lots of referrals from this story at Google Blogoscoped.

According to Technorati, this [zed1.com] is currently the world’s most popular blog.

Rather strangely, Philipp Lenssen there pointed his link at my terribly dull main site index, rather than this blog which Technorati indexes.

Being one of the links on a default WordPress installation means that there are automatically thousands of links into my blog. But Technorati removed the WordPress sidebar folks back in October 2004. I can only think that they must have been making some kind of adjustment and accidentally enabled the WP sidebar folks for a short while.

I remember that someone had mentioned it Wow, you’re actually the Technorati #1 blog on Friday. But at the time I only looked at my Technorati profile. I saw I was indeed ‘Technorati Rank: 1′, but within a short time that had changed to ‘Technorati Rank: 0′. Unfortunately, I didn’t think to look at the top 100 list, otherwise I might have got a screenshot.

With any luck some of those extra visitors might come back. I know I’ve had a fair bit of activity on my theme pages this weekend. Maybe it’s related.

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6 Responses to “Technorati Number One”

budi on wordpress.com » Technorati Number One Says:
August 30th, 2005 at 04:08
[...] Mike Little is not a little one, his one of the co-founder of Wordpress. Today, it’s a very special day for him. His technorati Rank is 0 (53,146 links from 52,733 sites). [...]
budi on wordpress.com Says:
August 30th, 2005 at 04:10
Technorati Number One

Mike Little is not a little one, his one of the co-founder of Wordpress. Today, it’s a very special day for him. His technorati Rank is 0 (53,146 links from 52,733 sites).
Link from Mike Little’s Journalized.
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Entreprenuer Geek » Blog Archive » Tagging your blog Says:
September 1st, 2005 at 07:33
[...] And then there is an immediate story about Mike Little (Co-founder of the Wordpress software I use for blogging) where Technorati made his blog the number one blog on the internet for a while, and then moved him to number 0! [...]
Igor Says:
September 1st, 2005 at 22:16
Congratulations! That’s very impressing, your blog really deserves it.
Mike Says:
October 16th, 2005 at 09:21
Your blog also made a leap in the linux industry in blogshares.
celia Says:
April 29th, 2008 at 18:09
wat guy its block

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