This is easier to see on sites that are new to the Blogroll. Because they may only have 2 or 3 links and their history only goes back a day or so, you can see that they are only getting links from a couple of sites that have the blogroll hardcoded into the site. They aren’t getting links from us, even though they appear on our site, on the blogroll.
TW has some solution to do with yet another of the interminable html/xml variants that I’ve forgotten the name of.

also, planet atheism shows up each time we get linked…

From my understanding (and, again, I could be completely wrong, and probably am), PA shows up each time you get linked (that is, have a post in the front page of PA) because that’s a new link (unlike one in a blogroll). But I don’t think it increases your Technorati authority; it simply resets the 180 days counter back to zero.

In other words, having a blog link 100 times to you doesn’t count “more”, but if those 100 links are distributed through time (say, one per day), then it counts for a longer time (since each new link resets the counter for links from that blog — and PA counts as a blog, here.

Unless technorati have changed things, i’m not convinced they only index once. When this blog first crawled its sorry ass onto the blogroll we got multiple hits from the same person. Also, planet atheism shows up each time we get linked….

Linking to a blog on a new post does “reset” the timer, so that your blog counts as linking to the other for 180 more days.

In other words: blog A joins a blogroll. On Technorati, he “gets” a new link from any of the older members. After 6 months, Technorati “forgets” about those links. But if blog B joins the blogroll ands adds it to his site, Technorati counts a new link (from blog B) to blog A.

Again, this is my understanding, but I could be completely wrong.

P.S. – mind if I mention my Planet Atheism Technorati ranks table? 😉

I have exactly the same issue as you. It seems to have started when the atheist blogroll borked out for a while. COuld it be that this is the problem, rather than technorati?

I’ll ask Mojoey, eh?

the main thing i could suggest is coming up with a way to display the blogroll in a static format, as i doubt the length or style of a page matters. alternatively, getting everyone on the blogroll to make static links would be a winner…