WordPress Wednesdays: Getting Back on the Technorati Saddle

Published on Oct 24, 2007   //  WordPress
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Earlier this month, WordPress 2.3 was released, bringing funky features like native tag support. As part of the update, the “incoming links” on the WordPress Dashboard starting getting served by Google Blogsearch rather than Technorati, the service that we’ve all grown accustomed to. Some people applauded this change, because Google Blogsearch has a larger reach and can recognize incoming links from sites other than blogs. Traditionalists preferred Technorati and despised the switch.

Well, in case you missed it, Matt from MattsBlog.ca came up with a custom WordPress plug-in that lets you go back to the Technorati way. The appropriately named Technorati Incoming Links plug-in is a breeze to install. All you have to do is download the zip file, extract it, and place the technorati-incoming-links.php file inside your blog’s plug-in folder (typically wp-content/plugins). Once uploaded, you go to the Plugins section of your WordPress dashboard and activate the Technorati Incoming Links plug-in.

Speaking for myself, I prefer Technorati incoming links over Google Blogsearch, simply because the latter also serves up internal links. Your incoming links list gets cluttered with links that you have given to yourself, effectively shrinking the usefulness of the Incoming Links section to start with. After all, the reason why it’s there is so that you know who’s linking to you and where your traffic is coming from.

How do you feel about Technorati vs. Google Blogsearch? Do you have a preference?

6 Comments to “WordPress Wednesdays: Getting Back on the Technorati Saddle”

  • Matt
    October 24, 2007 1:54 pm

    Thanks for the link… and, you know, the whole article. :P

    I actually like Google Blog Search because it shows almost all links to your blog, so it’s good in that sense. But, Technorati is also useful because then you know when your Technorati rank might have gone up (down?).

  • Collin
    October 25, 2007 6:19 pm

    Does the TEchnorati rank count for anything useful. I have not put to much into this site yet and was wandering if I should.

  • Matt
    October 25, 2007 6:27 pm

    I know that Text Link Ads and ReviewMe use it when they calculate prices…

    Really, it’s just another fairly useless number…

    Although adding the Technorati code to your site can’t hurt…

  • blogadmin
    October 25, 2007 6:30 pm

    Is there a way to have both?

  • Matt
    October 25, 2007 6:32 pm

    I don’t know, I’ll look into it later.

  • Collin
    October 25, 2007 6:36 pm

    Well I never new there was even a code. I better go take a look. When people talk about googles page rank what do you have to do to find that out. When I type in my name yourworldgallery there a quite a few pages of links to my site and head lines.

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