From Global Voices, a post by Erik Hersman on how to tag your blog entries for use with Technorati. I'd like to build on that post based on some recent experiences with the service.
I have been using Technorati for several months. While my posts were always included in their search results, I was unable to have them appear in their index of tagged entries. After several exchanges with their support team (they were very helpful), my posts are now included in the main index.
Based on my conversations with support, I was able to determine that the RSS feed is an integral part of how the post gets indexed. Once I moved my tags out of the footer and into the body of the post, they were picked up in my
Atom feed. After I pinged Technorati, the posts appeared within a few minutes.
Tags: Global Voices Atom Technorati
