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Quick Summary: Read about how I entered the Technorati Top 100 Most Favorited Blogs list.

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Gauravonomics is a Technorati Top 100 Most Favorited Blog now!

A big “Thank You!” to everybody who made it possible.

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A Little Background First: My 30 by 30 List

I made a little list sometime back – ‘Thirty Things I Want to do Before I am Thirty’ –

The interesting thing about my 30 by 30 list is that every single thing on it looks impossible today… But, if I do manage to do all thirty, what a story it will be! So, even though I know that the odds are impossible, I’m doing it anyway, because, never again in my life, will I be young enough, or foolhardy enough, to even try something as insane.

- and ‘Take Gauravonomics into the Technorati Top 100 List’ was one of the more ambitious items on my list.

My Technorati Favorites Exchange

When Dosh Dosh broke into the Technorati Top 100 Most Favorited Blogs list by running a Technorati Favorites exchange program I realized that –

While it is really difficult to break into the Technorati Top 100 Most Linked Blogs list, it is easier to break into the Technorati Top 100 Most Favorited Blogs list because you only need about 125 people to add you to their Technorati Favorites list.

- and started my own Technorati Favorites Exchange.

Why Am I Running a Linkbait Exchange?

Many of my regular readers will be wondering why I am participating in a linkbait exchange program, instead of doing what I do best, blogging. Let me give you an example and explain why.

I’m sure that you have heard of an ‘open book exam’, where you are allowed to refer to a book while taking the test. Now, imagine that you are part of a class of hundred in an open book exam. Imagine that only half the class is aware that they are allowed to refer to a book while taking the test. Imagine that you are in the other half. Linkbaiting is to blogging what an ‘open book’ is to exams. These are the new rules of the game and, if you are not playing by them, you are likely to lose out.

What’s more, I don’t really look at my Technorati Favorites Exchange as a linkbait anyway –

I am very generous with link love and add all the blogs on my feedreader to my Technorati Favorites. Even though I haven’t updated the list for months now, I have 195 blogs on it; once I update the list, I’ll have 400+ blogs on the list.

- I look at it as a way to discover new blogs.

Discovering Blogs or Exchanging Links?

There are three versions of the Technorati Favorites Exchange running now –

- The original Technorati Favorites Exchange at Dosh Dosh

Create a post on your blog announcing that you are exchanging Technorati favorites. Prominently include a link to this post to indicate that there is a similar exchange going on at Dosh Dosh.

Once I’ve noticed the link via trackback or Technorati, I’ll include a link to your post on Technorati favorites in this post itself so readers here can visit your blog to participate if they want to.

- The Technorati Favorites Link Train at Gary Lee.

Take “My New Faves” and move them into the “The Original Faves” list. Add 3 Blogs that you’ve just added to your Technorati Favorites to the “My New Faves”. Add Everyone on this list to your Technorati Favorites List by clicking on “Fave the Site.” Those who want good kharma will fave you back. If not, you will for sure get the benefits of faves from the bloggers who continue this list after you.

- The Automated Technorati Favorites Exchange at Garry Conn

Once you have added everyone already on the list to your Technorati Faves and have subscribed to the feed, you can drop a comment and instantly have your name added to the list. Nothing else is needed. No additional comments are required. You don’t have visit hundreds of different blogs. You don’t have to waste hours on end doing these exchanges. One comment gets your site added by hundreds if not thousands of people.

All three variations are innovative ways of running the exchange, but they miss out on one important aspect: if you are taking all this trouble only to exchange links, you are probably shortchanging yourself.

All of you know why it is important to have your blog discovered; who doesn’t want new readers? However, it is equally important to discover new blogs, because new blogs give you new ideas for your own blog. Today, these bloggers are running a Technorati Favorites Exchange on their blog; tomorrow, they might think of an even more interesting meme or linkbait. Don’t you want to be the first to know when that happens?

Discovering Blogs by Exchanging Links

My new Technorati Favorites Exchnage combines the best of the three versions running now and adds the unique element of discovering new blogs by exchanging links.

Here’s what you need to do –

STEP #1: Scroll down to the comments section and click the “add me to your Technorati Favorites” link for everyone on the list to add them to your Technorati Faveorites. Also click on the “read my best posts” link to read the best posts by them and, if you like the posts, click on the “subscribe to my feed” link to subscribe to their feed.

STEP #2: After you have added everyone on the comments list to your Technorati Favorites, you are ready to add your name to the list. To add your name to the list, enter the following text in the comments form below –

Hi! I am {YOUR NAME} and I have added everyone on the list to my Technorati Favorites. Please add me to your Technorati Favorites {YOUR BLOG URL}, read my best posts {YOUR BEST POSTS PAGE URL} and subscribe to my feed {YOUR FEED URL}.

Please see my comment below as an example –

Hi! I am Gaurav and I have added everyone on the list to my Technorati Favorites. Please add me to your Technorati Favorites, read my best posts and subscribe to my feed.

Don’t worry if your code is broken; I’ll fix it after you leave the comment.

Do make sure that you have checked the box to receive e-mail notifications on new comments on this post so that you can keep track of how many new people have added you to their Technorati Favorites.

So, what are you waiting for? Enter your blog for my Technorati Favorites Exchnage now and have your blog favorited, and discovered, by hundreds of bloggers all over the world.

And, yes, do remember that this is just a game, one which will end the moment a few of us manage to get into the Technorati Top 100 Most Favorited Blogs list (Technorati cannot allow this to go on, can they?). But, till then, why not have fun?

To My Regular Readers

63 67 71 74 84 90 101 people have already favorited me and I only need 61 57 53 50 40 34 23 more faves to break into the Technorati Top 100 Most Favorited Blogs list. So, if you love reading my blog, please please please add me to your Technorati Favorites. I know it doesn’t mean much, but it will be so much fun!