You may have decided that you need to get a Technorati Authority for your blog, but how do you go about it?
First, I used to think that pinging Technorati works. Don't bother, they do not take into account pings now! You may as well do away with the ping from your site and save the processing time. So what do you do? Here are the steps we have used to speedily get a ranking.
1. Go technorati.com and sign up for an account. Simple. You will have to validate it as customary by clicking an email link, but in general, nothing clever!
2. Find the claim a blog button. Follow the form for directions here - enter your website URL and press next, then type in the information you find. Don't submit it just 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 requested. If it isn't shown somewhere, you are not there a trick!
3. One of the optional fields is for blogs linking back to you. If you have been using FTS or article directories, then you should have a few of these. Go to Yahoo and search link:www.yourblog.com and find several web-sites linking back to you (forget Google, unless you have a load 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. imagine up several suitable tags and enter them, plus choose the three categories that match your site 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 might be generated. I believe that this is the reason that many claims are failing and why a lot of websites are not getting listed. Let me explain more!
The reason to use the RSS feed rather than only spidering the web site is because anyone can place a comment in a site, which could 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, plenty 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 site 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 be sure 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 might reset your feed to summary just if you prefer.
After that, you should be ready to get listed. You merely need 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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