Help Technorati Index Your Posts.

In Technorati for Bloggers I have described how to claim your blog at Technorati. Technorati is a specialized search engine for blogs. It indexes some 55 million blogs. There are two techniques to help Technorati index your blog......

POST TITLES

Technorati breaks up your weblog's home page into smaller sections such as posts and sidebars. You can help Technorati's spiders properly identify a unique post and its proper link destination by adding a link with a defined relationship of "bookmark" for each post. For example in the new blogger your post titles are shown by this code :


<a expr:name='data:post.id'/>
<b:if cond='data:post.title'>
<h3 class='post-title'>
<b:if cond='data:post.link'>
<a expr:href='data:post.link'><data:post.title/></a>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:post.url'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url'><data:post.title/></a>
<b:else/>
<data:post.title/>


To see this code login to Dashboard and click on Layouts. Click edit Html subtab at top and check the box to Expand Widgets Template. Scroll down in edit Template text box till you come to above code. In the above code locate this line :


<a expr:href='data:post.url'><data:post.title/></a>


and change it to the line below :


<a expr:href='data:post.url' rel='bookmark'><data:post.title/></a>


Save Template. Now your post title is a permalink as well as easily identifiable to the Technorati spiders.

TECHNORATI TAGS

A tag is a category name used to categorize your posts in the blog. To make Technorati tags for all your posts put a rel="tag" inside the link code. For example to put a technorati tag of Permalink include this code in the Edit Html tab of your post :


<a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/permalink" rel="tag">permalink</a>


You can do this without linking to technorati. For example :


<a href="http://betabloggerfordummies.blogspot.com/2006/12/technorati-in-blogger-beta.html" rel="tag">Technorati</a>


Publish post after adding your tags. See bottom of this post where I have added them. After publishing post do not forget to ping Technorati to let them know that you have added content. See Pinging simplified or try a Multipinging Tool to inform multiple search engines in one go.

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