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Another busy month has gone by here at Kyle’s Cove and a quick glance at the calendar shows that September is already here.  I figured it would be a good time to quickly revisit the month of August and highlight some of the most popular posts for the month:

• Things To Look For When Picking A WordPress Theme
• Make Money Online with BidVertiser
• R.I.P. Technorati
• How Safe is Facebook?
• Is the Blog Sidebar Slowly Moving to the Blog’s Footer?

Thanks to everyone who takes the time to read and leave comments!  You guys keep me motivated to continue writing each month.

I was fortunate to be one of the first people involved in the Technorati Favorites Exchange, started byMaki over at Dosh Dosh just over a month ago.  This, combined with my participation in many exchanges that were run by other participants, has netted me a lot of favorite adds.   As of this post, I am currently sitting as the 67th most favorited blog according to the Technorati Top 100 most favorited list.    Today is exactly one month after I posted my Technorati Favorites exchange, so I figure it was as good a time as any to reflect on it a bit. 

What does making the Technorati Top 100 mean?  Well, technically it means nothing.   Unless your ego needs stroked, making the Top 100 will not benefit you at all.   I checked my Google Analytics stats and show a total of zero hits from Technorati’s Top 100 page over the past month.  

So, what did I hope to get out of this exchange?  Well, the first and most important thing I got was the formation of many great relationships.  Blogging is like a big social network, and participating in these types of experiments has resulted in finding some new sites I normally wouldn’t have visited.  Some fit into my niche, while many others don’t, but I have other interests beyond technology and so I subscribe to many of them and enjoy the content they offer their readers.   

Another big benefit that is hard to measure is improved search ranking within Technorati.  If you’re looking for blogs of interest, why not go to the leader in blog search?   Technorati seems to factor favorites into their authority ranking, which helps with improving your position within their search results.   In checking my analytics, it seems that Technorati is referring more readers to my site, which will hopefully result in more long term feed subscribers. 

Overall, I am definitely of the opinion that this experiment was a success, with everyone who participated getting some sort of benefit out of it.  If you participated in the experiment, I would love to hear your thoughts on the exchange one month later.   Hopefully Maki will take the time to reflect on what appears to be his most popular post as well, since he started the whole thing!

Over the past few weeks, the blogosphere has been buzzing about Dosh Dosh’s Technorati Exchange project. I’ve even hosted a contest on this site, which has allowed me to meet a lot of people and find a lot of great sites I otherwise probably wouldn’t have noticed. Several people have gotten several hundred adds, improving their rankings and making their blog more findable. The side effect is the amount of work involved with adding everyone that adds you and tracking it all to ensure you pay everyone back who has generously included you in their favorites.

Andy Beard has come up with the best method I’ve seen yet, using OPML to mass import the sites you would like to add to your Technorati Favorites. This way, with a few simple clicks you can add 500+ blogs at once to your favorites and hopefully most of the blogs you add will also return the favor. Its also a great way to avoid missing anybody.

Great job Andy!