How Blog Networks Work

The higher your rated link relationship or popularity is, and the more the exposure you get from blog networks, the higher your own traffic will be. More bloggers will visit your blog when it is listed on a blog network. The blog networks benefit through increased ad revenue when more visitors come to their site.

Exploring Technorati: To fully explore Technorati, you'll want to sign up for an account. Signing up for a Technorati account is easy.

1. Click on the Join link from the home page (http://technorati.com ) or navigate to http://technorati.com/signup/ . Choose a member name, enter your email address, and choose a password. Place a check on the box next to I agree to....Finally click on the Join button to finish signing up.

2. You will then be redirected to the member page. Note that you can view lists of top posts, blogs, videos, and photos by popularity, topic, searching, or become mesmerized by the newly updated list on the main page.

3. Technorati ranks blogs by member votes and link relationships. When a member likes a post, blog, video, or photo, they can mark it as a fave. Each item has a box next to it displaying the number of members who voted it a fave as fans. The authority of the item is calculated by Technorati based on the number of links to it from other sites. This affects its ranking.

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Joining Technorati gives you another way to connect with other bloggers and measure the success of your blog. Users of Technorati can find content in multiple ways: based on searches, topics, popularity, and by content type. We saw that Technorati ranks blogs, using not just user rankings, but also link relationships. The more other bloggers use your site as a reference, the higher is your blog's authority rating.

Technorati displays the number of fans, the title of the blog, the URL, the authority rating, and a brief description of the blog. Technorati is unique as compared with many other network sites. It has separate category rankings for posts, blogs, videos, and photos which give you multiple ways to gain exposure for your blog.