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I've seen a lot of blog sites, having technorati tags to their posts.

Does anyone knows what is the deal for this?

I mean do those webmasters get something back for that, or they just love technorati so much?

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I installed a plugin that selects some tags and these are used as meta keywords...

Technorati tags help Technorati place your content under the keywords you choose, otherwise it will have to guess, if you use keywords on Blog posts already you can check to see if Technorati is picking them up by looking for a recent post on the site. This of course only works if you are pinging Technorati to let it know about your blog or site. Most blogging software does this for you but just in case you can use a service such as Ping Goat

Mind you recently I have fallen out of love with Technorati it's taking anywhere between 1 minute to 2 days to see posts appear on the site and it is suffering from severe post spam at the moment.

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Right, now I get it.

So instead of having a feed with tags for each item, you link to technorati.

not quite you still have feeds and tags the only difference is using a microformat to manage your tags, and you don't have to link to technprati the key is the rel="tag" bit so for example I could have a tag

Code:

<a href="http://ventureskills.wordpress.com/tag/drupal" rel="tag">Drupal</a>

Technorati will see the rel="tag" and look at what the keyword is in this case Drupal and mark the post under that Tag. it doesn't matter where the url itself goes, though it is useful to readers if it links to either a list of posts relating to that keyword on your site, Technorati site or a page explaining the term.

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not quite you still have feeds and tags the only difference is using a microformat to manage your tags, and you don't have to link to technprati the key is the rel="tag" bit so for example I could have a tag

Code:

<a href="http://ventureskills.wordpress.com/tag/drupal" rel="tag">Drupal</a>

Technorati will see the rel="tag" and look at what the keyword is in this case Drupal and mark the post under that Tag. it doesn't matter where the url itself goes, though it is useful to readers if it links to either a list of posts relating to that keyword on your site, Technorati site or a page explaining the term.

it looks to me that this is important for your blog site, most blogs doesn't have a tag cloud by default

It is only a guide to Technorati and Technorati does a pretty good job guessing without these "tags" as long as you have clear keywords, so I wouldn't worry to much about adding these tags the easist way is to adapt your current blogging software to add the rel="tag" to your existing keywords.

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It is only a guide to Technorati and Technorati does a pretty good job guessing without these "tags" as long as you have clear keywords, so I wouldn't worry to much about adding these tags the easist way is to adapt your current blogging software to add the rel="tag" to your existing keywords.

a standard blog doesn't have the tag links, or do want to add the "rel" attribute to existing blog posts?

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I will add this rel="tag" here at webdigity and see what happens.

Right now technorati has indexed our site, but with no tags at all.

So let's see what happens this way

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I will add this rel="tag" here at webdigity and see what happens.

Right now technorati has indexed our site, but with no tags at all.

So let's see what happens this way

yeah, add the rel tags to the cloud

maybe you need to check which tags in the cloud exist at technorati

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I've just saw the HTML source of my blog, and saw this :

<a href=..... rel="category tag">

So I guess the correct one is this. I will try this first.

Forgive me for what may be a dumb question, but do I need to put the link in every blog post?

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Forgive me for what may be a dumb question, but do I need to put the link in every blog post?

maybe you will try this WP plugin: http://www.neato.co.nz/ultimate-tag-warrior/

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Update : After one day with rel="category tag" and tags in the rss feed, technorati is fetching the tags of webdigity.

As you can see here , there is now a "Top Tags" section in the left.

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Update : After one day with rel="category tag" and tags in the rss feed, technorati is fetching the tags of webdigity.

As you can see here , there is now a "Top Tags" section in the left.

It looks like that webdigity had a good chance to win the blogotition a month before

Does that mean yes?

Forgive me for what may be a dumb question, but do I need to put the link in every blog post?

maybe you will try this WP plugin: http://www.neato.co.nz/ultimate-tag-warrior/

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Does that mean yes?

I never tried the plugin but it seems to me that this plugin will create a tag cloud from your blog postings

I'm not using Wordpress so I don't think the link will work for me. Hopefully someone else will give it a go.

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I'm not using Wordpress so I don't think the link will work for me. Hopefully someone else will give it a go.

My mistake, I thought yours is a WP blog, maybe there are similar plugins?

It seems possible to modify your blog template to add a tag, and almost all blogs have a category link on every post. This sort of thing was simple for me when I used Movable Type, but now I use Drupal and it requires more study.

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