Happy Taggiversary to Technorati

Technorati’s second birthday is today, so kudos and salutes should abound in celebration. To honor their birthday, they are releasing new and updated Tag Pages, part of their constant striving to become better and more reliable as a social networking service and specialized search engine. Technorati revolutionized the blogosphere and the web by taking full […]

Heat Map Layout of Top 10 Technorati Blogs

ProBlogger’s Darren Rowse points us to Healthbolt’s “Color Coded Above the Fold Composite Map of the Top 10 Blogs on Technorati”, a “heat map” of the most popular blogs layout. As can be predicted, the hottest spots for advertising points in a layout are across the top and down the right side of a web […]

Technorati Explains Link Count Criteria: Expiration Date 180 Days

Many of us are still trying to figure out how Google’s Page Rank works, but at least we have a better clue now on how Technorati ranking works through a good explanation by Brian Pinkerton in “Making Sense of Technorati Link Counts”. We display four count-related numbers in just this little part of the page. […]

Technorati’s Daily Vlog

Looking for more on what’s hot with Technorati? They now have a Technorati Daily Vlog: The Daily Vlog is really our view of what’s hot on the World LIVE Web each day, bringing you not only the headlines but a little of the context behind the headlines. We’ll highlight the hot blogs, videos, photos, and […]

An Alternative Version of the Popular Technorati Tagging Bookmarklet Available

My Technorati Tag Bookmarklet for WordPress and WordPress.com Users is a popular and easy to use method of adding tags to your WordPress and WordPress.com blogs without WordPress Plugins or much fuss. Okay, a little fuss. It works through the use of a Bookmarklet, a bit of javascript code you can install in your browser’s […]

Technorati Relaunched With New Look

Technorati has a new look and feel. It’s Technorati’s birthday present to itself. Happy 3rd Birthday, Technorati. You can find out more details on the new look and feel from the Technorati Blog. A few highlights of the changes are: * We’ve made some major speed and accuracy improvements in core search. * Link counting […]

Lorelle on WordPress Now Part of Technorati Tools

Wow. I guess this is a clue that I might be famous. Again. 😉 My post on A Tagging Bookmarklet for WordPress and WordPress.com Users has been added to Technorati’s Tool List, a list of tools that help people add Technorati tags to their blogs. I’m in good company alongside some of the following tips […]

Top 10 Tips for Technorati Tricks

Micro Persuasion’s Ten Technorati Hacks are a must read stuffed full of tips for fans of Technorati. I learned a lot of things you could do with Technorati from these tips including: 2) Use Technorati to Search Individual Blogs Are there certain blogs you visit more than others because they are great connectors or simply […]

Adding Del.icio.us, Digg, Technorati and Slashdot Links to Your WordPress Blog

David Breyer’s article on putting Del.icio.us, Digg, Technorati and Slashdot buttons in your WordPress blog is brilliant and a must have if you are going for good SEO page ranking. It also makes it easy for users of Del.icio.us, Technorati, Digg, and Slashdot to add your article to their tag service. BUT…it begs the question: […]

Make Your Technorati Tags Invisible

While I’m a fan of putting things out in front where everyone can see them, kinda like truth in advertising, an oxymoronic phrase, there is a growing interest in including Technorati Tags within your posts that are there, but not there. Enter the Invisible Technorati Tags. I want to emphasize that hiding anything on your […]

Not Just Slashdotted! Washingtonposted with Technorati

Technorati has partnered with the Washington Post to provide search results from blogs on their articles and columns. What does this mean for the blogger? Well, in the past if your site or blog was found and referenced in a story by Slashdot, the ultimate of recognition, the bad side of the honor was that […]

Adding Technorati Tags to WordPressMU Sites

Note: This article is deprecated. It is no longer valid. You should not be linking your tags to Technorati, but to your own content. Single hosted versions of WordPress now come with built-in tagging and tag clouds. Manually creating a tag cloud is not necessary. WordPress.com users currently only host “global” tags, tags that link […]

Technorati BlogFinder – Add Your Blog

Technoratic’s new Blog Finder has just started and part of Technorati’s new expanded services. Technorati can already be used to search for posts or articles by tag (aka category) similar to keyword searches on search engines, but now they are adding a new feature to help you track the blogs that carry the information you […]

WordPress School: Category Names

In Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course you are to create a test site on WordPress.com or wherever you choose to experiment. It is your WordPress personal sandbox. This doesn’t mean you can do anything you want in the sandbox. The goal of the test site it to emulate a real site, influencing the decisions […]

WordPress School: Categories and Tags

We’ve covered WordPress posts and Pages, the core content elements associated with a basic WordPress site. Today we are going to focus on posts, specifically how they are organized and structured within a WordPress site. Categories are your site’s Table of Contents. Tags are your site’s index words. Honestly, it is that simple. Think of […]