Getting Techie with Technorati

February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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Technorati Profile

I’m getting “techie” today- I’m putting the pieces together and finally working to  complete all my profiles with Technorarti, Digg, Stumble Upon and setting up the list of urls to PING with each blog post.

I don’t know why I waited so long to join Technorati. I had it in my thoughts that as a “non-techie” joining would be a difficult process, so procrastination kicked in.  Once again, I ask myself why I took so long.

For anyone that does not know what Technorati is, let me give a brief overview.

According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Technorati is a search engine searching blogs and competing with Google and Yahoo.  As of December 2007, Technorati indexes over 112 million weblogs.

Visit the home page and create a free account, select your username and password, then you can choose and your email.

Then you have the offer to include your blog address. You will be prompted to “claim” your blog. They give you two easy ways.

You can claim it by making a post with a line of html code that looks like the one I did above. You publish it then tell them to set the spiders free.

You can pass them the user name and password to your blog. I’ll be honest, I tried this the first time and my password didn’t work… oops, got a little used to that bookmark for posting and didn’t really feel like searching for the piece of paper with my hundreds of passwords.

I then updated my little bio- I need to find a way to be more creative like everyone else and find a way to stand out.. but really, I’m just too tired all the time to be REALLY creative. Maybe when the baby starts sleeping thru the night?

Be prepared- you will need to create a 250 character summary- I’ll admit, this is my biggest downfall. I include my URL’s.. but, after browsing the site again I see noone else does this… I’ll go back and re-do my profile.

Have that picture ready! I need to actually find a picture of me that does not have me displaying my product… sad, but true, all my pictures are of my kids..the dogs…the cats..crazy things like the hawk that wouldn’t leave my driveway… I’m always taking the pictures.  Put that on the To Do list.

Okay, check back.

• I created a username/password
• I claimed my blog
• I did a search and found some of my favorite blogs like, 5 minutes for mom, and added them to my profile.s is something that has been lingering on my To Do list for some time, but hey, as a one women show with a business, a husband working 7 days a week at 12 hours a day, four kids and a house… it seems to slip to the bottom of my list….just above sleeping.

Ok, I’ll finish this post later, must start dinner first….

UPDATE:  Dinner is done, here goes the rest of my Techie Post.

I’ll make a very simple and visual introduction to Technorati and hopefully it will save you a little time when you create your own account. Ready?

Step 1: Using my Profile as an example, you can see I have already created my account and claimed my blog. Sorry my lovely picture isn’t showing up in the profile..server must be busy. shucks.

Since my profile rank is shows that I almost don’t exist

Step 2: A view of the Favorites page. Notice the “Add a Favorite” option box allowing you to add a blog manually. To create a fresh selection of new blogs you can browse under the headers - Front Page-Business-Entertainment. When a blog catches your intesest simply

 

 Step 3: Under your Favorite page you will have access to these tools that make Technorati fun and easy to work with. Drag a

  

• You will be able to add a button to your toolbar to make bookmarking easy and fast while browsing.
• Ping Technorati and let them know you have some hot new content and they can come get it while it’s hot.
• Grab a button to add to your blog or site to encourage readers to tag you
• More fun options to play with and see what works for your objectives and site

Step 4: Explore Bloggers Central - This is an easy place to get a feel for what the hot topics are by browsing top blogs and watchlist. Depending on your own techie savy, perhaps you want to take a spin in the developers area to see what you can use. 

Step 5: Expand Your Reach. Easy point, click and copy code to help combine your blogging world and your Technorati world.

Entice readers with a couple options that can be easily added to your blog- my personal favorites are the widget and tag cloud.

The Tag Cloud is a good example of why it is important to Tag your posts, videos, pictures on Flickr, podcasts. When you ping your blog, these tags will be picked up. Easy way to share a topic of interest!

One last point I want to make. As I mentioned before there are millions of blogs on the intenet today and thousands moving thru systems like Technorati every minute of day. 

Before your next post is “pinged” stop and think about how your going to make your post stand out from the rest. Is your headline catchy enough? Are you nichy enough?

 

and second. When you create your account create a good blog summary. Here is an example of a blog that took time to create a good description and another without one.

Notice that each blog has the options to [add tags]. I can add my own tags in my favorites to help me catagorize for easy reading. Cool!

 You will also see the word “Authority” under each blog. What is Authority and How do you increase your Authority?

“Technorati Authority is the number of blogs linking to a website in the last six months. The higher the number, the more Technorati Authority the blog has,” explains Technorati’s blog.  

Your Authority increases by 1 for every link to your blog. So far my Authority is a four.. OUCH! Quick, post a little link to me :) 

Process Simplified if you want to be on the tag page; Create an account, claim your blog, tag your post, ping your blog (manually or automatically depending on your blog set up). Ta Da!  Hope this simplified introduction helps. I’ll be posting a more in depth look soon.

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