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Making A Fresh Site Listed In The Technorati List

By: Keith R Lunt

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You may have decided that you have to get a Technorati Authority for your blog, but how do you go around it?

First, I used to imagine that pinging Technorati works. Don't bother, they ignore pings now! You may as well remove the ping from your website and save the processing time. So what do you do? Here are the measures we have used to speedily get a ranking.

1. Go technorati.com and sign up for an account. Straightforward. You will need to confirm it as normal by clicking an email link, but on the whole, nothing clever!

2. Find the claim a blog button. Follow the form for instructions here - enter your weblog URL and press next, then type in the details you find. Don't submit it merely yet!

If you don't know your RSS feed address, it should be shown on your weblog somewhere. Only right click and then copy link location to copy it and paste it where it is requested. If it isn't displayed somewhere, you are absent a trick!

3. One of the optional fields is for sites linking back to you. If you have been using FTS or article directories, then you should have some of these. Go to Yahoo and search link:www.yourblog.com and find several sites linking back to you (forget Google, unless you have masses 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. think up several suitable tags and enter them, plus select the three categories that match your weblog the best. Now, check the details and press submit.

Now, they will email you a claim code that you have to put into your blog. 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 website 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 a lot of claims are failing and why loads of blogs are not getting listed. Let me explain more!

The reason to use the RSS feed rather than merely spidering the web site is because anyone could place a comment in a blog, which might 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, a lot of bloggers set the RSS feed to merely 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 blog 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 the RSS feed is giving the entire post. A belt and braces job, but better to be sure. Once you start to see a Authority appearing, you can reset your feed to summary only if you prefer.

After that, you should be ready to get listed. You only have to get other bloggers to mention you in their posts!

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Written by Keith Lunt of My Home Working. If you want to read more home working ideas, call over.

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