Technorati – Anyone use this service?

  • I’m eager to get my blog promoted. Has anyone here used Technorati (www.technorati.com) as a way of doing that with their blog?

    After signing up it asks that you put some code into your blog for them to crawl it. I understand that, but are there any adverse effects to doing this, like e-mail or comment spam?

    As always, your advice is appreciated.

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  • It makes no difference to spam…if you post it, they will find you. If you promote yourself, they will find you faster. You can’t escape it, so there is no point worrying of any of the listing services are going to have adverse effects. If you use a disreputable blog listing service that sells your information, then you’re hooped. Otherwise, load your anti-spam plugin(s) of choice, and wait for the traffic, because they will find you, no matter what.

    Thread Starter davincim

    (@davincim)

    Roger that. Thanks!

    Thread Starter davincim

    (@davincim)

    I had to post an update. Just seconds after I posted my reply above, I went to sign-up with them. Just out of curiosity I did a search on “internet safety” just to see what the neighborhood looked like, and know what I found? Yep, I came up in the results without even having to do anything! My blog has been live less than a week.

    Yes, build it and they will come.

    P.S. My blog is https://www.familywebwatch.com/blog

    I know (or am pretty sure) that Technorati listens to weblogs.com and other sources for seeing when a site is updated. There’s a default setting in WP options > Writing Options (I’m talking about 1.2-era stuff here) that does an ??ber-ping to rpc.pingomatic.com. According to the Update Services link in the explanatext near that options, ringomatic will ping Technorati for you when you update. So you are automatically sending a ping to Technorati, just by being a default user of WordPress. No wonder they found you so quickly! ??

    So that’s a different thing than being a Technorati member, claiming a blog and all that stuff.

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