Technorati Being Gamed

Last year after I found a porn site that got on the 16th position of Technorati’s Top 100 Favorited list by creating many accounts and favoriting their site themselves, I did an experiment to warn Technorati that anyone can get into the Top 100 Favorited list. I wanted to warn Technorati by getting into the list myself with my Technorati Favorite Exchange idea. I even wrote on how to get into Technorati’s Top 100 Favorited blogs so that Technorati would do something about it.

But Technorati did not do anything about it, I guess they are not fast enough like the ReviewMe team who quickly prevented people from price gaming after reading my post.

Recently some bloggers started gaming Technorati to get in to the Top 100 Favorited list by doing the same Technorati Favorite exchange that I had done last year.

Some of the bloggers were successful in getting into the list, but with them getting in, many other bloggers including me were kicked out of the list.

I think these bloggers wanted to get into the list because they thought that the list would bring them traffic. This blog was in the list from December until recently, and I have not got a single visitor from the list (as far as I know).

I remember contacting Darren Rowse after I got into the list to let him know how easy it was to get into the list. Darren replied back saying that though he is in a high position on the list (currently 3rd), he has not got much traffic from it at all.

So what is the point in getting into the Top 100 Favorited list anyway? Does it increase profile? Does it give egos a boost?

Darren and Amit have written about the Technorati gaming too and like Amit I too feel that Technorati’s Top 100 Favorited list is not worth any more (until Technorati does something about it).

What do you think?

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