Chapter 5 - Submit Your Blog
Just below here is what Technorati said about themselves as at May 24, 2007.
Welcome to Technorati
Currently tracking 82.7 million blogs
Technorati is the recognized authority on what's happening on the World Live Web, right now. The Live Web is the dynamic and always-updating portion of the Web. We search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) increasingly referred to as “citizen media.”
But it all started with blogs. A blog, or weblog, is a regularly updated journal published on the web. Some blogs are intended for a small audience; others vie for readership with national newspapers. Blogs are influential, personal, or both, and they reflect as many topics and opinions as there are people writing them.
Blogs are powerful because they allow millions of people to easily publish and share their ideas, and millions more to read and respond. They engage the writer and reader in an open conversation, and are shifting the Internet paradigm as we know it.
On the World Live Web, bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. We rapidly index tens of thousands of updates every hour, and so we monitor these live communities and the conversations they foster.
The World Live Web is incredibly active, and according to Technorati data, there are over 175,000 new blogs (that’s just blogs) every day. Bloggers update their blogs regularly to the tune of over 1.6 million posts per day, or over 18 updates a second.
Technorati. Who's saying what. Right now.
Now, having understood what Technorati is all about and does, please follow the steps below to "Ping" your blog(s).
To come to this stage, it is assumed that you have completed the steps in Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 in creating your blogs with Blogger and WordPress respectively. It is time that you go to finish the steps in this Chapter. It is the submission of your blog to a search engine. A must do is to submit your blog to Technorati.
After you have registered with your User Name and Password (remember your user name and password), you will need to login-in into the Home Page. Close to the bottom of the page, you will notice -
Technorati Mini
View constantly updated "conversation" in a mini window on your desktop.
Technorati Tools
Plugins, applications and widgets to help you get more out of Technorati.
Click on "Claim your blog" and you will enter a page requesting you to complete the various section. Do as requested. If you had more than one blog, claim all your blogs here one at a time.
You will get an embedded html code and a series of widgets. Copy and paste them to your each of your blogs.
Having done so, move to "Technorati Tools" as shown below.
Technorati Tools
Plugins, applications and widgets to help you get more out of Technorati.
Here you can see there are number of plugins, application and widgets. Go through each one of them. Take time and patiently do it.
Next you will see "Ping us" shown as part of a panel as below -
Technorati Mini
View constantly updated "conversation" in a mini window on your desktop.
Technorati Tools
Plugins, applications and widgets to help you get more out of Technorati.
Click on "Ping us", you shall come to a page like as below and click on the word "Ping" at the end of your blog title. Once completed you are done.
Go to your blog(s) now and you will noticed all the widgets that you have installed. Each time you publish a blog entry, go ahead and "Ping" your blog(s) as per what you had done in the previous step above. The page looks like -
Welcome back, YOUR NAME! When you update your blog let us know with a ping.
- Updated 1 day ago
- Updated 2 hours ago
Thanks for the Ping!
Technorati will now check francoyong.blogspot.com for new content. You can bookmark this page and return to it to notify Technorati of updates.
Automate this! You can have your blog software ping for you. Just enter http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping into your weblog tool's configuration for Pings and Notifications. Check our ping configuration page for more information.
Congratulations!! You have now move on.
