Technorati gives this blog a level of authority that could be considered pretty generous,given the unauthoritative nature of most of our posts. However, for the uninitiated, in Technoratispeak, “authority” refers to how popular you blog is, determined by how many other blogs link to it, not by how authoritative your content is (mercifully…). <\/p>\n

But, links to us from the Atheist Blogroll <\/a>that I can actually see on my screen – and that send visitors to us, according to FireStats – haven’t been listed for months. <\/p>\n

I’ve tried researching the reasons for this, unsure whether the fault lies with our code (that would hardly be a first), our recent attempts to restyle the site (not an unmitigated success, yet), Technorati or the Atheist blogroll’s code.<\/p>\n

I am none the wiser. This appears in Technorati’s explanation<\/a> for why links may not get picked up.<\/p>\n

If the link was in a blogroll, you may want to check to see if the hyperlink to your blog is located in the blog source of the blogroll. Blogroll links that are generated via a tool or script are not seen. The blogroll must reside in the blog home page as well. If the blogroll is in a subsection or directory of the site, it is not seen or picked up<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On an experimental basis, I visited the most recent posters (at the top of the blogroll list on the left.)<\/p>\n

onegoodmove.org<\/a> doesn’t actually show the blogroll, nor have a link to Technorati that I could have used to check if it picks up the link from us. <\/p>\n

Sans God<\/a> has us on the Blogroll, on the index page and not below the so-called jump (other Technorati forum reasons for not seeing links) When I looked for blogs that link to Sans God, I see: “Why Dont You Blog? by Admin Istrator \u00c2\u00b7 44 days ago ” Well no. It rather looks to me as if we linked to them today and yesterday and the day before and so on. When the 6 months from 44 days ago is up, we will disappear off their list of linked blogs.<\/p>\n

God is pretend <\/a> has a scrolling blogroll. Maybe that’s why our blog – which shot itself in the listing foot by starting with a letter as close as dammit to the end of the alphabet – doesn’t appear to be linked to from here. But, wait, God is pretend has only 3 inbound links and Whydontyou doesnt appear in the three. Maybe that’s because they are using a script.<\/p>\n

We get lots of links from visitors to Gratuitous common sense <\/a> and I can see us quite clearly on their blogroll, on the index page, not below the jump etc. Ahha. Technorati thinks this has links from whydontyou, but dates them as 35 and 50 days ago….. <\/p>\n

I am getting bored with this. You get the picture. The only links that keep getting consistently
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