How a “flaw” results in a high Technorati authority
Posted by multippt

I’ve realized that my site got a ranking of about 60,000 position in the Technorati ladder. Pretty unusual, considering that Tevine is pretty new. Then, I found out that Technorati was counting links from the only plugin that I placed a little advertisement on (i.e. Social Dropdown).
Unlike Alex King, which left pure flowing links in his popularity contest plugin, the plugin I made was specially crafted to nofollow all links, except for 1 link on the main page. It works pretty well, search engines like Yahoo and Google did not count the links I don’t want them to… sort of (there were a few sites, which didn’t update the plugin frequently to make use of the new SEO). However, Technorati went ahead, and practically counted the links I didn’t want them to count, such as in the post of a blog.
This is odd, considering that Technorati themselves claim that nofollow links will not add to a site’s rank. I did the right nofollowing techniques, but what could have caused Technorati to count the links? Then, I realized that the flaw was probably NOT in the nofollow, but rather Technorati’s innate ability to “read” JavaScript. That is absolutely amazing… Technorati skipped the nofollowed links, and took the HTML stuff inside the JavaScript, particularly the links which I didn’t nofollow thinking that no crawler will actually read JavaScript. I was wrong, Technorati, you surprised me.
So, if Technorati can read JavaScript, it makes links which appear in JavaScript treated as an outgoing link. Then again, if that were true, then Technorati would have responded and counted a lot more links. Instead, the links now come from only new blogs using the plugin, older blogs that used to appear are no longer appearing. Seems like Technorati updated its filtration system to handle certain repeated pings.



