Technorati Faves Link Train Effect

I started the Technorati Faves Link Train a couple of weeks ago on April 10th, 2007 thinking that it will boost my traffic, Faves Count and Overall Technorati Ranking. It’s now been a full 15 days after and I would have to say that the Pros have definitely outweigh the Cons with this LinkBait promotion:

Link Train Pros

  • Overall Technorati Ranking Skyrocketed – As some of you remembered, I wrote a post about cracking 10,000 in Technorati Rankings in a month some time last month. This was mostly due to the fact that Technorati accounted each page of John Chow’s site as an individual blog while I was a Top Commentator on his site. Well, now after two successful link trains – My Name in My Domain Link Train and the Technorati Faves link Train, I have now “legitimately” cracked the 10k point. I have noticed huge jumps with other of my fellow bloggers, so I’m glad everyone is benefiting in their rankings too.
  • My Technorati Faves Count – Before I released the link train, I made sure to jot down the current Faves Count which was at a relatively respectable count of 6. Now after 15 days of the Train roaming around the blogosphere, the count is now 314, which has landed me in the Top 100 Favorites list at No. 34. Speaking of which, 12 out of the original 23 Blogs have now cracked the Technorati Top 100 with DoshDosh leading the way at No. 9! GREAT JOB GUYS!
  • Discovering New Blogs – Like I’ve said before, the biggest reason I enjoy these trains is because I can look every day on my wordpress admin dashboard and see new sites popping up, linking to my site. If their name is intriguing enough, I will click over and check out their blog. As I find the good ones, I just keep on adding them to my RSS Reader so I can keep up with them. It seems that this has been the trend for some bloggers as well as my current feed count has jumped up to 83. If you haven’t subscribed yet to this wonderful blog, click here! Here are some that I thought I’d share:

Have you noticed how all three of these sites are based outside of the United States? I really love how the blogosphere has no boundaries.

Link Train Cons

  • Traffic Growth was lower than expected: Overall, it’s hard to compare this month’s performance with last months as both month’s traffic were boosted by the Name in My Domain Link Train and the Technorati Faves Link Train. One would expect that having two succesful link trains would have boosted my traffic, but according to my Analytics, I have 25% less traffic coming from Technorati.
  • Page Per Views went Down – Compared with March numbers, April’s page per viewer numbers were down by 12.5%.

Overall, I’m totally satisfied with the results the Faves Link Train has given me. Every day, I receive new faves request and links from people from all over the world. Now that the MyBlogLog Link Train is starting to gain steam, I wonder what kind of an effect that’s going to give me again! The last thing I’m looking forward to with this experiment is to see the overall effect DoshDosh will get once he cracks the Top 5, which will give him prominent exposure on Technorati!

Technorati Ranking 04.26.07