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Adding Traffic To Your Blog using Technorati - Part 2

Published Tuesday, December 16, 2008 by bloggerblognet83460 | E-mail this post

Mark Your Posts

Technorati classifies its blog postings by assigning tags to each one. For instance, all posts related to the keyword phrase 'attention' can be viewed at technorati.com/tags/attention. Technorati has its own special language code for tagging posts. If you have WordPress, several plug-ins that create Technorati tags are available. However, you probably shouldn't display the tags right on your website, since it offers the reader a chance to become distracted and wander away from your site. Technorati's content comes from your RSS feed, so it's really only imperative that the tags are found there. Try AutoMeta for a quality WordPress plug-in.

If there is a two-word tag such as, 'attention age', one will not have to list all of the permutations. These posts will be listed by Technorati under 'attention age', 'attentionage', 'attention', and 'age', automatically.

In addition to any tags that you explicitly add to your pots, Technorati will also use the categories you post was associated with as tags.

Test Technorati.

You must alert Technorati once you have posted comments on a blog. To do this you have to ping Technorati, unless you are employing a service such as Ping-o-matic which does it for you. If you have to do it yourself, put rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping among the sites your blogging software contacts. When using WordPress, this is accomplished by entering the information into Options > Writing > Update Services.

Get information on Tag and Search Feeds

It is now clear that posting comments on other people's blogs is an excellent means to getting yourself known, but you also need to find the proper blogs on which to post your comments. Perform a search on a subject on which you have expert knowledge. In the area above the results, you will find an RSS icon that makes it possible to subscribe to your search's results. Add the website address to your preferred RSS reader, and you will be alerted whenever a new blog posting occurs on your subject. Then you can immediately go to that blog and post your comment.

WTF at Technorati

Technorati has an interesting feature they call WTF where bloggers explain why certain topics are hot right now. This is both a good way to find out what buzz worthy at the moment and a great opportunity for you to become the authority on a hot topic. Just write a good comment on a WTF topic that has no explanation yet and link to your blog.

Boost Your Ranking.

Technorati rates and ranks a blog based on how many blogs link to your blog. Thus, to be gain a better ranking, the following two important things need to be considered:

1.Having more than one link from a single blog to yours will not make much difference. You need to participate in guest posts and post comments on different blogs. Your link should be among the links within regular posts.

2. Only links created within the last 180 days are counted. You cannot rest on your laurels or your ranking will start to sink.

See my blog AttentionRich.

Nick Dalton teaches you more about marketing in the attention age on his blog at http://www.AttentionRich.com

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