Didn’t I just talk about not trusting most third party stats vendors (IE. Alexa) a couple posts ago? Check this screenshot out:

For those who don’t use Wordpress this is one of the sidebars in the admin area (default) which shows recent link activity reported by Technorati. You can click thru on the “more” part and be taken to Technorati most recent links to your blog.

Spammers and sploggers eating up their index? Momentary glitch? Thing is I’ve seen this happen several times before. I wrote about how abysmal Pubsub’s stats were here. Don’t get me wrong I think Technorati is atop the pile for what they do but this is simply more evidence that you can’t put too much stock in the numbers they — or any other third party tracking service — provide. And I certainly wouldn’t base any strong opinions or doom prophecies based upon them. They do provide a somewhat useful service and can be helpful sometimes, but their accuracy is seriously in question. I feel for them trying to police against the sploggers and spammers and it’s that a main reason nobody has bought their company yet.

I’ll take the Apache logs over any third party information when accuracy truly matters.