Technorati is one of the many blog search, bookmarking and tagging websites that have proliferated on the web in recent years, although it is generally regarded by serious bloggers as the most ‘authoritative’ of the bunch.
According to the website, Technorati was founded to help bloggers to succeed by collecting, highlighting, and distributing the online global conversation. As the leading blog search engine and most comprehensive source of information on the blogosphere, Technorati indexes more than 1.5 million new blog posts in real time and introduce millions of readers to blog and social media content.
To get a piece of the action, sign up for a free Technorati account here, complete your profile and then start ‘claiming’ your blogs. To claim a blog, Technorati provides you with a line of code that you’ll need to paste onto your blog’s home page, so that the Technorati spider can confirm its ownership.
Once you have claimed your blog, it’s a good idea to setup an automated ‘ping’, which automatically alerts Technorati when a new post has been added. There are instructions on how to do this here: http://technorati.com/developers/ping/.
It’s also important that you display Technorati subscription buttons on your pages that allow people to ‘fave’ your blog. These buttons are provided in the form of HTML snippets after you ‘claim’. By displaying these buttons, your blog’s ‘authority’ and ‘fans’ will hopefully increase over time and deliver more traffic to your website.
Open your free account here:
