How to improve your Technorati rank - one week on

30 Jul Geek Stuff No comment

A week ago I wrote about how to improve your Technorati ranking. At the time of writing that post, the Technorati rank for SwollenPickles.com was 91,357.

Since then, I've taken a couple of measures outlined in that post, but to be honest, spent very little time working on it. In that time, my Technorati rank has jumped up by close to 30,000. As of writing this, my Technorati rank is 61,742. In short, something seems to have worked.

Technorati Experiment Day 2

23 Jul Geek Stuff No comment

Here's a quick follow up to yesterdays post "How To Improve Your Technorati Rank".

Yesterday my Technorati rank was 91,357, as of writing this it is 88,547.

Another interesting point is that yesterday if you'd search Google for "improve your technorati rank", there would have been no sign of SwollenPickles.com. Run that same search today and SwollenPickles.com is currently sitting at the top of the search results list. Incredible. Maybe it's time I wrote an eBook and sold it for $9.98 Recommended Retail...

How to improve your Technorati rank

22 Jul Geek Stuff 5 comments

Are you looking to improve your Technorati rank?

A bold experiment

I read an article on Untwisted Vortex detailing how to improve your Technorati rank. RT is conducting an ongoing experiment to determine if blogs participating in the project will experience and improvement in their Technorati ranking as a result.

As RT rightly points out, a blogs Technorati rank is not based on how many "Fans" your blog has.

Your Technorati ranking is basically calculated on the number of incoming links to your blog, whilst the 'Authority' rating is based on the number of blogs that have linked to your blog.

Technorati rank explained

If you're new to blogging and/or haven't heard of Technorati before today then it's time to get yourself acquainted. Technorati can basically be thought of as a tracker of the blogosphere, keeping track of over 50 million blogs. Technorati keeps a track of who is linking to who in the blogging world, and builds rankings in a similar fashion to how Google rank their search engine results.

So basically Technorati gives you something else to worry about in addition to the mythical Google Page Rank. Just as backlinks can improve your ranking in Google search results, backlinks from other blogs increase your overall Technorati rank (which compares your blog to all the others listed in the Technorati index).

For the record, my Technorati rank at the time of writing this is 91,357. Ideally I'd like it to be less than 50,000 by the end of 2008.

Funky ASCII art

03 Jul Geek Stuff, Nuggets 2 comments

Long time pickle pal David Rader has painstakingly put together a list of ASCII codes for those hard core geeks out there looking to create some "ASCII Art".

I was a little shocked to find out that ASCII art is still out there, as I thought it'd died out following the age of the Commodore 64.

I was wrong.

Another surprise was that ASCII art is no longer just about naked ladies!

Here's an example of an iPod ASCII style:

Getting a little 1990's style retro, here's Beavis:

But here's my personal favourite, Sponge Bob:

Proving that ASCII is for everyone, here's what a swollen pickles logo might look like had I decided to go in a different direction with my theme:

Now, if that has given you the motivation to go all out art school ASCII style I don't know what will!

P.S.
If you are disappointed that there were no ASCII naked ladies then check out this link (some artworks more detailed than others. Viewer discretion advised).