As most of you know, the Technorati ranking is one of the metrics used to determine advertising rates and are part of the way your paid review rate is determined at ReviewMe. Having a high Technorati rank is something almost every blogger dreams of.

The Technorati bot usually visits when it is pinged, either directly, or through another pinging service. If it’s not pinged, then that perfectly good link goes to waste and does nothing to boost your rank.

You can solve this problem in a very simple way. Each time you get a pingback from a blog, and you don’t see the link show up in Technorati, simply go to the Technorati Ping form, paste the URL of the article that links to you and click the Ping! button.

With a bit of luck (sometimes it needs multiple pings, sometimes it doesn’t work at all), Technorati will add it and it will increase your authority.

Getting Evil

Now, as an extra bonus, I’ve found out that sometimes this ping strategy also works with non-blogs.

So, every time you get a link on a new non-blog domain that doesn’t use pinging (forums, sites, directories, social bookmarking sites), ping that URL where your link shows up to Technorati and in many cases it will be added to the Blog Reactions page, increase your authority and boost your rank.

Remember, your authority increases only when a new domain links to you, so don’t go pinging every single forum post you’ve ever made.

Due to the fact that it doesn’t always work, I’m not sure if this works if your links on that page have nofollow attached.

Be Careful

If you plan to get evil with this tip it’s possible that it will get you banned on Technorati. It might not, but then again, you never know.

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