Revision as of 17:20, 27 April 2023 by 154.13.103.137 (talk)(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Technorati is a site that you need to become very acquainted with as you begin using social media in your organization. Any social media marketing adviser worth her or his salt would tell you this.Technorati is a search engine of blogs and indexes and ranks blogs. It is possible to go here to start to see the Top 100 blogs as ranked by Technorati: technorati.com/pop/blogs/When you have a blog you should check this list periodically to see which blogs are popular. Here's the most notable 10 blogs as of this writing:1. Breaking News and Opinion on the Huffington Post. Founded by Arianna Huffington in 2005, this is a liberal online news site, which features links to various news stories and columnists.2. TechCrunch. In accordance with its website, TechCrunc is "a weblog focused on obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. Along with covering new companies, we profile existing companies that are making a direct effect (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space."3. Engadget. "Engadget is really a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and gadgets."4. Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide. "Gizmodo is a blog with the sole purpose of authoring tech and gadgets as fast as possible."5. Boing Boing. A blog of "wonderful things" and cultural curiosities and interesting technologies.6. Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done.7. Ars Technica. The art of technology. News, analysis and in depth coverage of technology.8. Mashable. The social media blog.9. icanhascheezburger.com. Funny photos of cats with captions, uploaded by readers.10. Daily Kos. The premier political community in the US. Several politicians post diaries on the site.As you can see, gadgets, politics, news, technology - and cats - are the hot topics. Despite the fact that none of this may be pertinent to your niche, it's still good to know what the favorite blogs are about. Also make sure to search Technorati to find the popular blogs in your niche. Search by keywords.Technorati includes a cool feature called Technorati Watchlists. This enables you to seek out whatever it is you would like to search for. Additionally it is one way people immediately know if someone links in their mind. The Watchlists have a Feed so you can get your searches via RSS feed.One of the ways Technorati calculates rankings is by counting just how many people have voted for a blog as a popular. Make it possible for your readers with a Technorati Favorites widget on your blog in order to vote for the blog.The majority of the blogs in the aforementioned top ten list are just a couple of years old. It generally does not take long to develop a high-profile blog. Use Technorati to your advantage and start building your blog today.Assuming you have a blog, you should register at Technorati and submit your site URL there.R. Scott Hall runs [1] where you could explore what Web 2 2.0 and social media marketing optimization can do for the business.