5 Tips to Better Technorati Indexing
January 31st, 2006In case you are wondering why Technorati is not indexing your blog posts and Technorati tags, Maybe the technorati spider is unable to assess your blog as you would want it to.
Easy Technorati Indexing
Here are some simple tips which you can implement in your blog so that Technorati indexes it well and you get all that extra site traffic from Technorati.
1. Valid markup for Web Pages
Display your webpage content as it is meant to be displayed. A vaild markup ensures Technorati spiders pick up your site code efficiently. W3C Markup Validation Service is a free service that checks Web documents in formats like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards and will help you identify and correct markup errors on your site. [In fact this is the reason Technorati support told me when I emailed them I was not being indexed well]
2. Validate Your Feed
Technorati indexes your feed to retrieve additional information and discern document structure. Feedvalidator is a validator for syndicated feeds which works with RSS 0.90-2.0 and Atom feeds. It helps your syndication feeds and possible points of improvement. [Well my feedburner feed does not validate. And FeedBurner says the obsolete feed error is OK]
3. Identify a unique posts
By adding a link with a defined relationship of “bookmark” for each post, you can help Technorati’s spiders identify a unique post and its proper link destination . So add this simple tag to your post title links and guide Technorati. For example:
<a href=”http://blog.bloghost.com/postname” rel=”bookmark”>Post title</a>
4. Use Technorati Tags
If your blog software supports categories and RSS/Atom feeds (like Movable Type, WordPress, TypePad, Blogware, Radio), possibly your categories will be read as tags automatically. If your blog software is Blogger (like mine) which doesn’t support categories, you have to tag your post by including a special link in the body of your post.
<a href=”http://technorati.com/tag/[tagname]” rel=”tag”>[tagname]</a>
If you do not wish to link to Technorati, You can link to any web page that ends in a tag
<a href=”http://apple.com/ipod” rel=”tag”>iPod</a>
Read more about Technorati tags and usage.
5. Ping Technorati
Blog and Ping! Pinging a blog service lets them know you have created / updated a post and invites them to come visiting to check your post for tags and content. Several blog softwares are configured to ping Technorati automatically, or you can manually ping Technorati, or configure your blog publishing tool to ping Technorati directly and allow for custom pings.
I have read that many bloggers are complaining that Technorati is not indexing their blog well. So try this, have some patience and see if Technorati indexes you well and sends some more site traffic your way!
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thank you for this useful tip , i am a blogger and i’am sure that it will help me very much .
This is great. There was a lot of useful information that I look forward to applying in this post. And only 292 lines of errors that I get to address found by Validation Service. Thanks for the help.
Great,pratical a piece of tip to be.Sounds cool.thank you very much!I will go and check.
My blog program doesn’t support ping technorati automately,I have ping it myself.I think it is a mess to do such thing every time I blog.
I also want to know how to increase blog reactions,
Now only 7 blog reactions to my blog.
Nice tips. I use blogger which may ping Technorati automatically, but I don’t take a chance and use Pingomatic. Never had a problem using feeds with Technorati.
Thanks for the “4. Use Technorati Tags” I didn’t know about it. Will have to implement it for my RSS feed. Great tip!
thank you for these great tips .
I am going to do these on my blogs .
Good tips, like to see more effective tips.
great tips thanks alot
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