Technorati adds Authority, subtracts Alexa

[mandy]

On Fri. May 4th, we updated Technorati.com to include the Technorati Authority for blogs listed on the Blog page and in search results. This update changed the earlier references of "N blogs link here" and "X links from Y blogs" with the single Technorati Authority number. On the blog page, we also show the Technorati Rank.

Technorati Authority is the number of blogs linking to a website in the last six months. The higher the number, the more Technorati Authority the blog has.

It is important to note that we measure the number of blogs, rather than the number of links. So, if a blog links to your blog many times, it still only count as +1 toward your authority. Of course, new links mean the +1 will last another 180 days.

Technorati Rank 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...

full announcement: http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/05/354.html

Authority isn't the only change arriving on Technorati. Though Carroll did not mention it in his post, Amit Agarwal at Digital Inspiration noted the removal of the posts-per-day and the Alexa traffic graphs from blog profiles.

Alexa has been at the center of some blog controversy recently. Their lawsuit against Statsaholic.com, a blog dedicated to Alexa's statistics, has been received negatively by many. Alexa's removal from Technorati may be seen as a positive by bloggers opposed to Alexa's suit...

full article: http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports...acts-alexa

[jezebel]

It would be easy to manipulate Authority.

[BellisimaJ.]

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It would be easy to manipulate Authority.
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Very easy.