Why Does Technorati Report False Inbound Links?

Jan 4, 2008 by Matt | Posted in General 2 Comments

I was looking at Technorati yesterday, just checking for links to Webmaster-Source. According to Technorati yesterday, the large blog about the publishing industry, GalleyCat, was linking to me. Yeah, right.

First of all, I’d have noticed an increase of traffic. Second of all, I ran out and checked. Technorati pointed me to GalleyCat’s main page, so I went there and poked around. I viewed the source, and used Firefox’s find tool…and didn’t find anything (of course).

I checked again today, and the entry in Technorati’s blog reactions was gone.

Why does Technorati do this? I always find a listing saying I have an inbound link (the reaction entry always points to a blog’s main page, never an actual post). So I go over and check, only to find nothing there. What the heck is going on?

  • http://www.galleycat.com Ron Hogan

    That’s so odd — but it’s happened to me, too! Now that I’ve found you, though, through a link that actually DID happen, you might just get a real link yet…

  • http://www.webmaster-source.com Matt

    Technorati: It works great…when it works. :D

    Since I’m not the only one having this problem, it’s probably a wide-spread issue.