Technorati hate me. No, really they do!
After enjoying a short time surfing on the crest of a Technorati wave with an authority of 470+ I have been plunged into the depths of the authority ocean, since my move to WordPress, and now have a Techorati Authority of 1.
Read it and weep.
I am.
For reasons only known to them, and inspite of having an up to date screen shot, an upto date RSS feed address and up to date links, they have stopped updating my recent posts on the Technorati site.
Not one single update. Nada.
I’ve tried leaving messages on their support pages, which have been ignored (sob, sob, sobbety, sob), and am now considering bribery, but I obviously have nothing Technorati desire (cue violins).
So, off I shall shuffle, in my status as a Technorati out cast, and mutter quietly to myself about the good old days.
One day Technorati, one day could you please, please answer my queries and start updating my feed again, after all that’s the service I signed up for?
Sigh.
In the meantime you may well find me banging my head against the brick wall of Technorati.
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It will get sorted… maybe this post will help lol!
.-= PippaD @ A Mothers Ramblings´s last blog ..Top Ender Giggles – Dead Head =-.
LOL! Maybe, but I doubt I’ll even register on their radar!
I wouldn’t worry. They are a spent force with very little impact on anything. Other than the tots 100 they make no difference to anything, and even then in my experience the tots 100 doesn’t particularly increase web traffic.
I suppose PRs might look at it, but that doesn’t particularly interest me personally.
.-= Dan´s last blog ..Hello, can I speak to Mr Huge Please? =-.
I’m trying not to be obsessive over it….honest
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It’s just so blumming frustrating when things break that used to work.
I’m still at the early stages, trying to get it to verify my feed which they seem unable to accept.
I’m not entirely sure why it is important, but we are all plugging away at it because of the Tots 100 index.
I find it so frustrating.
Good luck! I had no problems whatsoever before they changed their site last year. It’s been hit and miss for alot of folk ever since.
They hate me too. I’ve had 2 blogs registered with them and although the first one is now dead it never ever worked. I wonder if they think I’m a drug company? It wouldn’t be the first time!
.-= MrsW´s last blog ..Kids are great eh? =-.
By that logic they probably think I’m peddling sleeping pills! Oh no!
Fools.
Are you using the right feed address – I got it wrong three times before I found a way to get it recognised. Can you resubmit (cancel the original token/claim and start a fresh one)?
Yep, it’s the right feed. When I moved to WordPress I had to reclaim so I could updateto my new RSS feed (rather than the blogger one). It wouldn’t let me put the feedburner syndicated one in so I used:
http://www.insomniacmummy.com/feed/rss2
which works fine.
I have been trying to figure out what the importance of Technorati is and if it is worth doing, but I really can’t find much info on it. Must put more effort in:) Hope your problems are resolved soon:) Jen.
.-= Jen´s last blog ..I am a Duck! =-.
As others have said, it’s a bit hit and miss and might help your ranking in lists such as the Tots 10o but other than that I’m really not sure what influence it has.
I loved it when it was upto date and I had no problems, but now, like so many others I’m stuck in technorati limbo.
They are the same with me. I went through the rigmarole of resubmitting, still an authority of one nad no blog posts showing. I dont know what to do!!!
.-= The Mad House´s last blog ..Getting Maxi – Part Three Coming Home =-.
We should form a club, so many lovely and cleverly talented bloggers stuck in the technorati wilderness.
I’ll bring cake.
Exactly the same here. Rose up nicely and now stuck on 1. For perpetuity probably. Technorati hates me and I hate Technorati. I wish everyone would ignore it and it would go away.
.-= Emily O´s last blog ..Politicians want to woo me, am I flattered? =-.
Maybe if we close our eyes and wish hard enough…
Seriously though, it is soooooo annoying isn’t it?!
xxx
what is it? (sorry thick person alert
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Do you know, I’m not actually sure anymore. It’s an index of blogs. You join, claim your blog and it’s supposed to measure your blogs influence in comparison based on links etc. I think but tends to favour American ones with a far bigger readership.
If you have a good technorati authority score it can help increase your ranking in the Tots 100 index as it’s one of the metrics Sally uses. It’s not the be all and end all though.
Clear as mud? Thought so.
1. If you have an authority score, you are successfully registered with Technorati.
2. If your posts aren’t listed, you are registered but not yet approved.
3. Technorati now manually approves sites.
4. It can take time to get to a blog. A long time. Seriously, longer than you think.
5. However long you think it’s going to take, double it.
6. But – It does go through eventually. 10 blogs on the Tots100 got scores for the first time last month. 6 more have done so this month, already.
7. If you do not have an authority score of 1, and your blog does not show up when you type http://www.technorati.com/blogs/yourblogaddress then you are not registered. Delete your claim, do it again.
8. When you claim, post a post with only the code in it. Make sure this full post is visible in your feed.
K?
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I’ll join you, if I may? My hair is at the right length now for a bit of head banging.
Technorati stinks!
.-= Very Bored in Catalunya´s last blog ..Memories =-.
Of course you may, I’m getting a bit weary now though and may strop off very soon.
technorati confuses the heck out of me, i have no idea what the point of it is or why it is so difficult to get your blog registered with them, or why we even bother.
.-= Heather´s last blog ..Do You Friday Follow? =-.
It’s one of those things I registered for when I was a new blogger because something/one on Google recommended it.
I wonder if technorati knows what the point of technorati is? I reckon it’s possibly just one bloke in an attic in somewhere in suburban Wakefield, slowly going bananas.