Life as I find it

I found an “experiment” to increase Technorati authority. For bloggers, it is all important to have good authority on technorati for some reason. Whom am I fooling? That reason IS traffic.

However, something like this to increase that authority is a little too much. Who really is sitting idle there waiting to link random blogs together (AND update such random nonsense everyday!)? I guess plenty enough people. This is part of why most really good writers are less visible. They have no time to pander to bizarre measures nor the inclination.

What this “experiment” is, is no experiment, it is a link farm in a blog. There is a post with a list of links to other blogs, who have a similar list on theirs. As people join the project, they comment, and get added to the list, which is supposed to register as lots and lots of links with technorati, thus raising their authority. What in the world makes them think that their “gains” from technorati are not going to go reverse with search engines?

Uh…. that doesn’t mean I’m too good for such stuff. Actually, I AM good, but not because I don’t have the time, its simply because I don’t find it worthwhile to play these games. Not even for traffic (which is something most bloggers seem to sell their soul for). What experiment does it take to know that link lists are read by sites that count links? Worse, what does it take to know that this is basically worthless the minute some algorithm figures it out, and then its penalty bait.

How much traffic is enough traffic? And what is the point where we say… okay, I’m not going to post links that I have no respect for, because I have traffic, and now I would like some self-respect? Uh… never, I guess, unless we begin.

I feel a little disillusioned when I see such processes gain such popularity. Has anyone realized that Technorati getting hold of this link list is the one thing they don’t want, if they wish to retain their gains?

Sigh!

I don’t earn much from this blog, but hey, I’m having a blast writing, and I DO earn enough to not be spending for it. There is steady growth in traffic without spending a rupee for it. People come back, if you make an effort to write well.

I guess it would be too much to hope for that people use the daily devotion time to updating such lists to actually creating content that would gain them links that readers would enjoy, search engines would respect, and technorati would credit?