Technorati information

According to the technorati.com "About Us" section, they are:

Technorati is the recognized authority on what's happening on the World Live Web, right now. The Live Web is the dynamic and always-updating portion of the Web. We search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) increasingly referred to as “citizen media.”

Armed with this information, one who is interested in making any kind of money by blogging, it seems, should setup a technorati account and claim all of their blogs. It is a quick and easy way to view how many (and what) other blogs link to your blogs. This can be useful to see where things are coming from, and probably who else is reading your blogs. Sure, you can get all of this informaiton from your server logs (if you have access to these). I haven't yet found a way here in blogspot to see who visits and from where. There is probably a way to do this, but I'm new to all this blogging stuff, and quite frankly, haven't delved too deeply into this aspect yet.

For instance, in my main blog, Bigsibling, I can view the server logs and see that someone actually connected to it via a nokia phone. That is sooo cool. I only wish I could tell who it was and why they visted my blog on their phone. But I digress.

I'm not 100% certain of technorati's data. For instance, for this here blog here it shows there are "3 links from two blogs" but under that it says "No Links". You can see for yourself here. And then again, just because someone says they are the end-all-and-be-all of blog tracking, does that really make it so? Probably not, but I figure it couldn't hurt because, heh, its free!

The cool thing is, you can put any website in their search bar and see what blogs link to it. I have one that isn't really a site, just pretty much parked, but some garage in Spain has linked to the address, I believe it to be a mistake because it is supposed to link to some city council site for a city in Spain.

At any rate, it's a cool place, there are some tools there that can be used. Those will have to be discussed in greater detail in later posts. I just wanted to get something up since it has been several days since my last post (hey, gimme a break, I been sick....sheesh).

As always, thanks for visiting!