Alpha Mind Blog

I know where Lee Hopkins is, but where is Technorati?

Yes, it’s time for a little whining. Or ranting. Or whatever.

In Unfash (I’ll be using this nickname for my e-book Unfashionably Late from now on. If we all live with a word as ugly as “blog”, surely we can handle “Unfash”.), I said

…here’s how famous I’m becoming:

After twenty-two posts in 4 weeks, nobody has linked to me. The feed for my main blog, “The Alpha Mind,” has two subscribers other than the four which are just me trying out different aggregators. And it appears my blog has been read by no more than twelve persons other than me.

Now, after wiping this egg from my face, I have to confess that the only fact in that quote that was true on the day I wrote it was that I only had two subscribers. (And I’m being awfully trusting of FeedBurner when I say even this.)

First I’ll deal with my small readership, so I can then get to the serious business of kicking Technorati around the block.

I had made a mistake in my .htaccess file, and I wasn’t seeing statistics for blog.alphamind.biz, where this blog lives. I was only seeing statistics (please don’t ask me to explain) for those parts of the alphamind.biz domain which contained no content of importance. I don’t even know why there were twelve discrete calls for pages there, but those calls weren’t for my blog.

When I fixed the .htaccess problem, I found that in fact there had been over thirty readers of my blog the week I wrote the above. Still not a large number, but more than I’d stated.

Now, as to links to me…

The very day I published the e-book, I found that one of my favorite blogs had linked to mine a few days earlier. I clicked the link, which took me to the appropriate page on Alpha Mind. I then clicked my shortcut button “Technorati This in a New Window”, and up came Technorati telling me there were no links to that page.

I haven’t counted the number of times the same thing has happened since then, but it’s been at least “several”. The link at the top of this post is to a post by Lee Hopkins that links to my blog. Again, I follow Lee’s link, and then confirm that Technorati doesn’t know Lee (or anybody else) is linking to my post.

Technorati, please listen, and I’ll talk real loud so you can hear:

I followed a link to the page you’re telling me nobody links to! And the link that I followed is five (5) days old! Are you awake?!

While Technorati checks its alarm clock (in my dreams), I am wondering what the cyber equivalent of sniffing one’s own armpits is, so I can do that.

What is going on? Why does Technorati not find pages that link to me?

By the way, Technorati indexes my own blog posts pretty quickly—I’ve never had to wait five days to find my own material on Technorati. It just never finds anybody who links to me.

(sniff.) I’m bummed.

Google, please listen, and I’ll talk real loud so you can hear:

Technorati is not getting the job done! You guys know from links and crawlers and everything Technorati is trying to do and failing. Will you kindly take over? Please?

Okay. I dry my eyes and get on with life. And assure anyone reading this that you’re not the only one at my party. Honest. Some people are even linking to me, and one day you’ll know about it.

Oh, and Lee… Have you checked your deodorant lately?

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