I’ve heard the buzz about Technorati and Digg around before, and I wanted to check them out. Technorati is a website for keeping track of blogs and Digg is basically an aggregator for news stories, largely based on popularity. I thought I’d check them out.

Here are my Technorati and Digg profiles.

Technorati

At first it was a little unclear to me what the site was all about, but I finally figured out that it is basically a blog aggregator that rates blogs based on authority. Authority is driven by users who subscribe to that blog.

Digg

I thought the Digg site was very intuitive, and its purpose was immediately clear to me. I think it had the most immediate effect on my traffic as well. I think Digg might actually be a more useful product, because it forces writers to write consistently good articles to get them Dugg. This is in contrast to Technorati where an established blogger can produce low quality content for a while, but still sustain authority. That being said, if said blogger produces poor content for too long, I suspect their authority would drop.

My Conclusion

I think Technorati is a good place to find good writers, but Digg is a good place to find good articles relevant to a certain subject.