Free Traffic From Technorati

Posted on December 1st, 2007 in Technorati, Traffic Generation

So this may not be the newest idea in the book, but can help you make a few extra bucks a day if you’re smart about it.  Technorati has been dying for a while, with spam and whatnot, but you can still get thousands of unique visits a day using it.  Search data from technorati is used by tons of other websites, so showing up in the top search results for popular topics can mean lots of traffic, and lots of backlinks.

When you search technorati for a topic, it returns the most recent blog post about that topic.  How stupid.  All you need to do is frequently post about the most popular topics, and you will get face time.  And, whaddya know….they post a list of the most searched for topics on their front page…. So what can you do to exploit this?

The Hard(ish) Way

Make 20 or so blogs, free blogspot blogs, wordpress blogs on your own domains, whatever you want.  Get them all signed up and claimed on technorat.  Check the most discussed topics and make a post about the top one on a different one of those blogs every 15 minutes or so.   Doesn’t have to be long or anything…can be a bunch of nonsense, but must contain the keywords and be tagged with the keywords for that topic.

The Easy Way

Autoblogs.   It seems too simple but it works.  Scrape the top 15 topics on technorati, generate a blog post about a random one of those topics, post it, ping technorati.  Completely automated, and works beautifully.  How beautifully?  How’s 5k uniques per day within the first month sound.

So here’s some code to get you started.  Basic technorati keyword scraper function.  Returns an array containing the top 15 searched for technorati keywords.  Enjoy =)

function technoscrapey(){
  $lines = file("http://www.technorati.com/pop/");
  foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line){
    if(strpos($line,"<li class=\"e") && !strpos($line,"error")){
      $stripped1 = strstr($lines[$line_num+2],"/search/");
      $x = strpos($stripped1,"\"");
      $stripped2 = urldecode(substr($stripped1,8,$x-8));
      $keywords[] = $stripped2;
    }
  }
  return($keywords);
}