Thank You, Mr. Footer
Thanks to my mostly kind and decent theme users, plaintxt.org has snuck its way into the Technorati Top 100. When I first starting using WordPress themes, I didn’t care to associate myself with the theme author. But it’s the convention, I suppose, and that’s fine.
I’d like to thank the academy, and especially the footer.php file. I just realized that there is no prize. Which is slightly disappointing.
adam wrote:
do note that if technorati figures out that you’re a theme author and that’s how you made it into the top 100, they’ll ban you just like they did matt, the kubrick guy, and kyle neath.
remember, technorati isn’t a search engine, it’s a popularity contest. and since they can’t figure out how to exclude links from
#footer, they’ll just delete you altogether.Posted 07 Jul 2006 at 12:08 pm ¶
Scott wrote:
Shhhh. It’ll be our secret then.
I think the Kubrick Guy is still hanging in there.
Posted 07 Jul 2006 at 12:16 pm ¶
Shawna wrote:
Congrats Scott
Posted 10 Jul 2006 at 5:51 pm ¶
Ken Walker wrote:
Very shrewd to leave your contact info in the footer of those themes. Well done.
Posted 15 Jul 2006 at 11:42 am ¶
Scott wrote:
Yes, I thought that spending lots of hours developing a handful of themes and then supporting them by answering a dozen emails a day would surely be my ticket to the Technorati Top 100. Perfect example of my acumen.
Posted 15 Jul 2006 at 11:52 am ¶
adam wrote:
yeah, that’s what really annoys me about technorati deleting theme authors.
most of them, myself excluded, spend an insane amount of time supporting their themes, answering requests, and generally being an asset to the community. and technorati assumes they’re just trying to make rank.
Posted 16 Jul 2006 at 4:20 pm ¶
mackrick wrote:
Well done Scott
All that hard work and those hours tweaking that code has paid off.
Thanks for the wonderful themes and please keep up the good work
Posted 17 Jul 2006 at 3:47 pm ¶
Scott wrote:
Thanks, Rick. I plan on using your “testing” services some more as a couple new themes are in the works.
Posted 17 Jul 2006 at 3:50 pm ¶
Jimmy wrote:
Congrats man! Well done!
Posted 18 Jul 2006 at 6:55 am ¶
Ozh wrote:
Nice !
Imagine my rank if all theme authors using the Wordpress Theme Toolkit would mention me in their footer as I suggest it
So far one theme did so, and that’s about half of my 1700+ incoming links in Technorati
Posted 04 Aug 2006 at 2:33 pm ¶
Scott wrote:
All the same, immediately after posting this Technorati removed me, which I was warned of. So no big whoop really.
There’s talk of
rel="designer"resolving this whole issue. Let’s see if Tantek will be interested enough to implement it.Posted 04 Aug 2006 at 2:42 pm ¶
LWF wrote:
I dont get it… but why dont you have dates in your posts and comments?
I wanted to know whaen did this Technorati Rating happen but found to my surprise that you int in that habbit of using dates!
Is it something personal with the calendars and clocks? LOL
But CONGRATS!
Posted 07 Jul 2007 at 6:10 am ¶