Enkay Blog

Whats Up With Technorati?

Unexplained Drop In Authority
So, everyone knows what Technorati is, but lately I have noticed a change and a big one that is. My Technorati ranking went from 15,900 range all the way to 18,000 and my Authority had dropped 35 points almost from 280 to 245. I noticed the drop a few days ago but thought that Technorati was being weird again so I figured I would wait a few days. Last night, I saw that the authority rose to 250 but that was because I received a few blog reactions. What is weird is that the number of my blog reactions has gone up, meaning that none of them were deleted. I figured, the best way to check to see what was wrong was to check someone else’s ranking. I typed in “cashforcomments.com” and apparently Prija seems to have been dropped from Technorati completely.

What is weird is that other people are having the same problem and according to the resident admin at Technorati, he states that the reason the authority went down as because some of my links were older than 180 days. Well, thats how the policy works but wait a second, my blog is a little over 4 months old. Giving them the benefit of the doubt, and saying that each month has 31 days, 4 months would make that 124 days. Well, that still doesn’t explain why the authority dropped. Either way, I am still looking for a solution for this and emailing Technorati may just be the answer to the problem. What do you guys think? Have you seen this happen elsewhere?

Update & Selling Your Content

Update on Enkay Blog
Hello everyone, as you all know school has been keeping me more than busy. My current schedule pretty much leaves me with 4 hour nights and that includes the time I spend at school and the time I spend studying. As some of you have read, I have a 3.9 GPA and I am trying to keep it up to maintain it and that means that I am at school about 12 hours on a daily basis followed by several hours at home studying what was taught in class today. As you can imagine, time does seem to go by fast and I have to accomplish all my tasks on a day-to-day basis. I have built a strong base in the blogosphere and I would hate to give that up. Now, why am I telling you this? Well, no, I’m not selling the blog but it is a catchy title isnt it? However, I just wanted to let me readers know that I do strive to provide them with great content on a daily basis even with all the burden from school.

Selling Your Content…To Your Reader
Either way, lets get to today’s topic of discussion which is about how you can sell your content to your readers…FOR FREE. Sound a little confusing? Well, think about it for a second. When you offer content on your blog, you wish for someone to read it and notice it and if you’re lucky, become a regular reader and even subscribe to your RSS Feed. Now, what does this have anything to do with selling your content you ask? Its similar, because your content is your product and you want your customers (readers) to notice you and eventually buy your product or become a regular reader. I have a few hints on how you can achieve that:

1. Make Your Content Interesting: The whole idea of blogging is to have content that is personal but at the same time applies to your readers also. If it doesn’t relate to them or in some way doesn’t affect them, then they will be indifferent about it. Every reader wonders, “What do you have to offer me” similar to how before you buy a new product you think about whether or not its actually worth it. Even though your content is free, it still costs the readers in terms of time and you need to make sure that you provide them with what they are looking for. Another big point is that you need to be consistent in your posting otherwise readers will lose interest quickly.

2. Visible RSS Button: It seems that slowly people are starting to realize how important this is as I see fewer and fewer blogs that have their RSS button located in a small corner. Make sure you have an attractive button, that is large enough to be notice and helps the reader know where they can subscribe. If you’re missing the RSS button then you are losing out on reaching a bigger audience more effectively.

3. Keep Your Posts Short: This is something I have never mentioned before and I never followed it myself until now. I will try to keep my posts shorter unless they are paid reviews but what seems to be the case is that when you have interesting content, you shouldn’t prolong it, unless you have to, otherwise your audience will just get tired of reading and move on. You want the message to be short and sweet so that your readers can read it and respond if they want to.

On that note, I hope that you have enjoyed the post and I want to see your thoughts on the last point because that is something that I really didn’t understand until recently when I noticed that shorter posts get more comments and reader feedback. Let me see what you have think!

Female Blogger List Published!

Well, the time you have been waiting for has finally arrived. The Top 50 Female Blogger List has been published! I received 48 submissions when I had made up the list and I have compiled the algorithm and the list is finally published. You can view what the list looks like by going here. There are a few tweaks that still need to be made but by far the most nominations were received for Deborah Ng. It turns out that she has two fantastic blogs and thats why I needed confirmation as to which one should be featured.

When Does The List Update?
The algorithm that dictates the ranking is custom made and that’s why I really can’t tell what rank you will show up as until you are put into the system. Some of you have sent me nominations after the list was created and so those will be included in next week’s updates so please do not think that your nominations were disregarded, because they will be there by the time the next update comes around. All the nominations are re-calculated and updated Sunday nights and so if you don’t see an update in Technorati or Alexa, please don’t panic as the updates will be refreshed on Sunday. That gives me a week to tally the rankings and re-adjust the algorithm to represent the data. I had a problem with ranking some Blogspot blogs, who had Alexa rankings of 13, which is the actual rank for Blogspot itself and so I just left them in there for now but I will have to find a fix for that soon too.

A Request From You
I also want to request all of you to blog about this list if you can, I would really want to bring some attention to this list as it is one of the first Top 50+ List of Female Bloggers that I have seen and I hope that the list gets all the exposure that it deserves. So please support the effort and blog about it if you can. Thank you guys once again for all your nominations and suggestions!

Your Thoughts
So, let me know your thoughts on the list. It has taken me quite a while to bring you updates regarding the list and I hope that the result is satisfactory to all of you. If some mistakes have been made, please do let me know as I have stared at the list for about 10 hours today and so small mistakes could have been overlooked. If you have any questions, please leave a comment or email me and I promise to get back to you promptly. Thank you and let me know your thoughts!

Get Listed or Nominate Your Favorite Female Blogger!
The best way to get listed or to nominate one of your favorite female bloggers is to email me using my contact page or to send me an email directly at enkayblog (at) gmail (dot) com.

Top 50 Female Blogger List (Update)

There was a reason why I didn’t post all day and that was because I wanted to give my post about Female Bloggers as much time on the front page as I could and surely, the results can be seen. My list has grown from 7-8 female bloggers to 32 bloggers in about 24 hours.

As you can see a page has been added onto the blog called Top 50 Female Bloggers and once you go there you will see the nominations I have received so far. I really want to thank Deborah Ng for blogging about this and sending her audience over to nominate their favorite female blogger. I really appreciate it! I have been asked a few questions and few people have been unsure about how many people they can nominate so I would want to clear those concerns up:

1. Dont be afraid to nominate yourself - I really would love for you to nominate yourself. Don’t feel ashamed to do so! If you have a blog and you put time and effort into it, send me an email at enkayblog (at) gmail (dot) com or comment on this post and I will add you to the list!

2. You can nominate more than one - I believe in the idea of “the more, the merrier” and so if you feel that you have more than one blogger on your mind, let me know about it. I would really want to create a list of 100 female bloggers.

Well, I hope that has cleared a few of the questions up. Remember that if you have any questions, do not hesitate to email me or leave a comment on my post as I will check it and respond to you. I want to thank each and everyone who has nominated their favorite female blogger and once the 50 nominations are reached, the list will be created, I will also expand the list based on how many more nominations I receive!

Want To Nominate A Female Blogger?
Well, if you have a name on your mind, then you can email me or leave a comment on this post and I will be adding your nomination to the list! Thank you once again!

Top Female Blogger Applications!

Well, its actually time to put together the list for Top 50 Female Bloggers. I started with 50 and will expand to 100 if there are a lot more female bloggers than I expected. The female bloggers will be ranked based on their Google Page Rank, their Alexa Rank and their Technorati ranking. The list will be updated on a weekly basis as Alexa and Technorati will be updated but so will the actual rankings themselves. The way to apply is pretty simple, You can do one of two things:

Method 1 - The first method would be to leave a comment on this post with the URL of the blog and that would allow me to go through it and validate it and get the information down. You can give me a reason why you are picking someone or yourself but its not required.

Method 2 - The second method would be to send me an email at enkayblog (at) gmail (dot) com and let me know the URL of the blog again. Once again, you can tell me why someone deserves to be on there but its not required.

What Do You Get?
Well, first off you get to be on an elite list of the FIRST Top 50 list of female bloggers. There have been a lot of Top lists out there but this one is dedicated specially for the ladies. So get your entries in. I will be hoping to see the spots fill up soon and ofcourse, if I get more applications then I will expand the list. You also get a free link back from me because the list will be a page on this blog. That means you get a link back from a Blog that has a Technorati of 16,000 and an Alexa under 100k! That should be incentive enough! Also, I would hope that once the list is published that the people would blog about it and thereby bring more attention to it. So, lets start bringing in the submissions!