Update: Technorati has introduced an “authority” ranking for each blog, which is simply a number reflecting every link your blog has received in the last 6 months (even if it’s spam). Ionut of the Google Operating System blog makes a good point that Google’s pagerank is much more sophisitcated and useful because it takes into account the source of those links, penalizing spammers and rewarding high value sites.

So people could rig the Technorati system like Linkrain suggests where this isn’t possible (at least in the same way) with Google.

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Linkrain, a blogger writing about how to boost your website rankings, has started an experiment using Technorati, one of the original networking sites for bloggers. He asked his readers add each other to their Technorati favorites to find if doing so will help his (and our) overall search engine rankings. So I claimed this blog at technorati and added him to my favorites, as I already read his RSS feed every day (and wish I could edit it:).

You can add the RCC Blog to your favorites by clicking this link:

This might seem a little gimicky, but I figure at a minimum it never hurts to meet new people writing on subjects that interest you. And it was a good excuse to finally join the millions of other bloggers using Technorati. Better late than never:)