One of the top travel blogs on Technorati

ByThe Skeptical Traveler

I knew about Technorati so last week on Saturday I was curious to see the top travel blogs. Three blogs from BoardingArea made the top 10 list and I felt privileged that my blog is here too.

However, a blog about insurance drew my attention. It was on the position 8 and I thought why not ‘Insurance is related to travel and it is an important aspect of travelling, very important I might add, but better to have insurance and never to be put in a position to find out how important it was.’

The image shows a list of blog posts with their rankings and brief descriptions. The list includes: 6. "The Points Guy - Make the Most of..." from thepointsguy.com - Recent: Trusted Traveler Expedited Security Expands to 28 More Airports in 2012 - Description: Apparently the TSA's trial Pre Check expedited security program went well enough at the seven test airports... - Travel Audit: 847 - Change: +1 7. "One Mile at a Time" from boardingarea.com/blogs/onemileatatime - Recent: My recent post about seeing the Northern Lights - Description: In looking for new, exciting travel destinations I'm turning to the sky. TravelSort posted a pretty amazing... - Travel Audit: 843 8. "Health Insurance, Car Insurance,..." from insure.com - Recent: Cordless Roman Shades has been top choices for homeowners - Description: When cordless roman shades... many parents are pleased with the introduction of the cordless Roman shades to... - Travel Audit: 837 - Change: +1
But big surprise when I navigated to the site, articles with titles like: ‘Cordless Roman Shades has been tip choices for homeowners’, ‘More Good Collection Of Yoga Mat Bags’, etc. And the English the articles are written in does not make sense.

There is no one month is not heard of some young children strangle themselves blind wired. It is a shame because it’s a solution so simple. For most blind-technology has been a time for Roman shades, this is the first year the option is available.
Roman Shades are safe for young children to play. What relief to know that their children and grandchildren will not be tempted by a rope hanging there for them to torture.

These guys are very good at Search engine optimization (SEO) if they could make the site be among the top 10 travel blogs. Perhaps Technorati should update their algorithm.

Today Feb. 13 the site went to position 20 but still.The image shows a list of websites with their rankings, URLs, recent posts, and travel authority scores. The entries are as follows: 1. Rank 19: "Online Travel Review" with the URL http://www.onlinetravelreview.com. The recent post is titled "Allow Me to Quibble with Literally ...". The travel authority score is 770 with a change of +22. 2. Rank 20: "Health Insurance, Car Insurance," with the URL http://insurgen.com. The recent post is titled "Great Investment of Collecting Coin". The travel authority score is 764 with a change of +19. 3. Rank 20: "As We Travel - Around The World" with the URL http://www.aswetravel.com. The recent post is titled "Digital Luggage Scale - Travel Product ...". The travel authority score is 764 with a change of +22.

All the other blogs seem to be bona-fide travel blogs, I wonder how this one made it among top 100, let alone top 20, but it seems that the SEO techniques do really work.

5 Comments

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  3. @Colleen
    SEO is ‘Search engine optimization’ and I updated the post also with a link to Wikipedia where it is explained.
    Thank you for pointing it out, I dislike it too when people use acronyms and they assume everyone know what they mean.

    I did not delete the @Map My Trip comment on purpose. ‘Backlinking’ is one of the SEO techniques: blogs comments, forum posting, etc. and the link (backlink) points to a website. However, it is time consuming to make relevant comments so some text vaguely connected to the post is used. Or sometimes the comment does not have anything to do with the post. In both cases it is spam. However, I’ve seen much worse than @Map My Trip, at least their site is travel related.

  5. I agree when the content does not match the title of the blog that is like spamming the web for marketing purposes. It does not help the user looking for the content to find the correct item to find online

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