Comments on: Where the Wall Street Journal’s "Most Influential Blogs" Rank on Technorati: You Might Be Surprised http://www.ideagrove.com/blog/2005/11/where-the-wall-street-journals-most-influential-blogs-rank-on-technorati-you-might-be-surprised.html The Idea Grove is a full-service agency specializing in public relations, marketing and Web design. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:07:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andrew Taylor http://www.ideagrove.com/blog/2005/11/where-the-wall-street-journals-most-influential-blogs-rank-on-technorati-you-might-be-surprised.html/comment-page-1#comment-300 Andrew Taylor Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:37:00 +0000 http://www.ideagrove.com/weblog/?p=344#comment-300 You'll note that the high-ranking Technorati types discovered your post right away...mostly because you mentioned us.<br/><br/>Technorati and other algorithmic ranking systems will always be less effective than the WSJ alternative: asking smart and connected people what they read. The larger flaw with the WSJ approach, however, is it applies broad catagories (''real estate,'' ''health care,'' etc.) to a weblog world of micro-niches. Each of those categories contains a full spectrum of weblogs on extraordinarily specific topics.<br/><br/>My blog certainly talks about theater from time to time, but it's not *about* theater. You’ll note that the high-ranking Technorati types discovered your post right away…mostly because you mentioned us.

Technorati and other algorithmic ranking systems will always be less effective than the WSJ alternative: asking smart and connected people what they read. The larger flaw with the WSJ approach, however, is it applies broad catagories (”real estate,” ”health care,” etc.) to a weblog world of micro-niches. Each of those categories contains a full spectrum of weblogs on extraordinarily specific topics.

My blog certainly talks about theater from time to time, but it’s not *about* theater.

]]> By: Brownstoner http://www.ideagrove.com/blog/2005/11/where-the-wall-street-journals-most-influential-blogs-rank-on-technorati-you-might-be-surprised.html/comment-page-1#comment-292 Brownstoner Sat, 19 Nov 2005 02:10:00 +0000 http://www.ideagrove.com/weblog/?p=344#comment-292 Ditto for Brownstoner. Curbed gets several times as much traffic--but we arguably are the next in line. Ditto for Brownstoner. Curbed gets several times as much traffic–but we arguably are the next in line.

]]> By: tony http://www.ideagrove.com/blog/2005/11/where-the-wall-street-journals-most-influential-blogs-rank-on-technorati-you-might-be-surprised.html/comment-page-1#comment-290 tony Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:19:00 +0000 http://www.ideagrove.com/weblog/?p=344#comment-290 very good points. my site is the healthcare technorati "winner" but I know that WSJ's healthcare pick gets 5-10x more traffic than my site.<br/><br/>if Technorati could partner with or build a traffic counter (like SiteMeter), then they could combine both traffic & links into their rankings. very good points. my site is the healthcare technorati “winner” but I know that WSJ’s healthcare pick gets 5-10x more traffic than my site.

if Technorati could partner with or build a traffic counter (like SiteMeter), then they could combine both traffic & links into their rankings.

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