Having A Recent Website Listed In The Technorati Listing
First, I used to imagine that pinging Technorati works. Don’t bother, they pay no heed to pings now! You may as well remove the ping from your weblog and save the processing time. So what do you do? Here are the stages we have used to rapidly get a ranking.
1. Go technorati.com and sign up for an account. Easy. You will need to validate it as customary by clicking an email link, but largely, nothing clever!
2. Find the claim a weblog button. Follow the form for instructions here – enter your weblog URL and press next, then type in the information you find. Don’t submit it merely yet!
If you don’t know your RSS feed address, it should be displayed on your weblog somewhere. Only right click and then copy link location to copy it and paste it where it is asked for. If it isn’t displayed somewhere, you are missing a trick!
3. One of the optional fields is for sites linking back to you. If you have been using FTS or article sites, then you should have a few of these. Go to Yahoo and search link:www.yourblog.com and find a few websites linking back to you (forget Google, unless you have lots of links). Copy and paste three of these into the form. I have no idea if it really helps, but the question is there, so in case it does…
4. suppose up a few suitable tags and enter them, plus choose the three categories that match your blog the best. Now, check the details and press submit.
Now, they will email you a claim code that you have to put into your weblog. This seems to be the biggest sticking point for getting listed – positioning this claim token. The problem is here that Technorati seems to do a double check.
First, they spider the site to check the claim token exists and second they look for it in your RSS feed. The second makes sense, as I will explain in a moment. But why then do the first? If both checks used the RSS feed then an error message can be generated. I consider that this is the reason that numerous claims are failing and why lots of websites are not getting listed. Let me explain more!
The reason to use the RSS feed rather than only spidering the website is because anyone might place a comment in a blog, which can include the claim token. You have to be able to update the posts to be able to get it onto the RSS feed.
So what causes the claim problem? Well, many bloggers set the RSS feed to only display a summary, rather than the full post. If the claim token is too far down the post, then it won’t be read by Technorati. Therefore, your website doesn’t get listed properly.
So, when you receive your claim token, create a new post and put the token in the first sentence. I would recommend within the first 30 words at the most. Also, (in WordPress), go to settings, reading and ensure that the RSS feed is giving the entire post. A belt and braces job, but better to be certain. Once you start to see a Authority appearing, you could reset your feed to summary only if you prefer.
After that, you should be ready to get listed. You only need to get other bloggers to mention you in their posts!
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