I’ve Broken Technorati’s Top 10K
July 8, 2007
I’m very happy to announce I’ve broken Technorati’s top 10K. At the time of writing my authority is 378, my rank is 9,780. There are 562 links to Super Blogging. But while it is great, it is a bittersweet victory.
Why? I did not earn this myself, from hard work and determination. Most of my links are from viral linking trains (ViraLink and ViralTags). While many are genuine links to my blog and my posts, a lot are not. While I love being under 10,000 in my ranking, sometimes I just wish I could see how long it would have taken me to achieve that on my own.
Another downside, besides it not being completely honest, is punishment from Google. Hundreds, maybe even thousands of bloggers participated in the viral trains, ViralTags especially. Google cannot punish them all (can they?) but it still leaves me worried. If your links are not genuine it can end up damaging you in the long run, something I didn’t think of before.
But I hope everything turns out okay for this blog, even if I did use the “cheating” way of getting links. Before I talked about how I didn’t consider it cheating. I still don’t think it’s plain old cheating, but it’s not a hundred percent honest either, because I would not have gotten all those links otherwise.
In the future I probably will not join in on link trains anymore. Not only can it get me in trouble and allow me to get away with not working as hard, but posting the trains does not provide good content for my readers and might even drive them away.
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Hey Congrats on the 10K its a huge effort anyway, theres a lot of blogs out there. I did it the same way you did, and now drift in and out of the 10K
Your sites looking good!
Rob
Thank you. :D While I do love having the great ranking, sometimes I just wish I could have seen how long it would have taken me if I didn’t use the viral trains.
I appreciate it! :)