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Technorati. I used to know how to guage the changes of my supposed “Authority” with technorati. A fall in numbers from, say 16 down to 12, meant that the year had lapsed since the British Telegraph linked to a blog post here about how John Edwards was kind of a fraud as a way of buttressing the contention that John Edwards was a total fraud. A rise upward from there to 20 was a demonstration that a batch of spam blogs, splogs, had swallowed up a link to here. A fall downward a bit later meant that technorati had gotten around to weeding those splots out.
They’ve revamped their “authority” numbers — I think twice since. The current configuration — I don’t get. I’ve been watching my number. It’s fallen one day by a single point. Then it’s risen the next by a single point. And that has been the pattern. Based on what linkage, based on what minute trafficking, based on what factors — I do not know. Maybe it comes from simply my patterns in looking my site up at technorati — I don’t know. Consult this, and all what I know is I’m down there — as is to be expected, not lighting it up at the 1000 maximum range.
Not that I care all that much. It’s just a curiosity.