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For information about the company, please see the <a href="/web/20070210033002/http://technorati.com/about/">About Technorati</a> page.</p> <ol class="faqnav"> <li><a href="#whattech">What does Technorati do?</a></li> <li><a href="#howhelp">How can Technorati help me?</a></li> <li><a href="#how2register">How do I get my site listed on Technorati?</a></li> <li><a href="#claimweblog">What does it mean to "claim" a weblog?</a></li> <li><a href="#Autoping">How can I set my blog up to ping Technorati with each new update?</a></li> <li><a href="#tag">What is the difference between post tags and blog tags?</a></li> <li><a href="#tip">Can I search for words or tags in just my blog?</a></li> <li><a href="#ranking">What is a "Technorati Ranking"?</a></li> <li><a href="#embed">What features does the Embed Claim Script add to my blog and how do I show them?</a></li> <li><a href="#claimfeed">Can I claim a feed?</a></li> <li><a href="#changename">How do I change my user name?</a></li> <li><a href="#profile">How can I adjust my profile so that the "aka" info doesn't show or my name doesn't appear?</a></li> <li><a href="#indexing">How can I produce better content for indexing?</a></li> <li><a href="#conversation">What does Technorati mean by "conversation?"</a></li> <li><a href="#watchlists">What are "watchlists?"</a></li> <li><a href="#receivewatchlists">How can I receive watchlists?</a></li> <li><a href="#deletefave">How do I delete my Favorites?</a></li> </ol> <dl class="faq"> <dt id="whattech">What does Technorati do?</dt> <dd> <p>Technorati indexes the live web within minutes, providing its users with up-to-date information about the topics and authors they care about. Technorati is the authority on what is happening right now on the live web including the blogosphere.</p> <p><a href="#top">Back to top</a></p> </dd> <dt id="howhelp">How can Technorati help me?</dt> <dd> <p>Technorati lets you track online conversations about you, your sites, your company, and your products. We connect you to the most influential weblog authors, drive targeted traffic to your sites, and allow you to connect to the millions of other individuals in the blogger community.</p> <p><a href="#top">Back to top</a></p> </dd> <dt id="how2register">How do I get my site listed on Technorati?</dt> <dd> <p>There are two ways to register your site with Technorati. One is to <a href="/web/20070210033002/http://technorati.com/account/blogs/">claim your weblog</a> and the other is to <a href="/web/20070210033002/http://technorati.com/ping/">add your blog to Technorati's Priority Index</a>. Registering your site with Technorati can help you ensure that your updates, new entries, and content are indexed efficiently and with priority by Technorati's search technology. With the <a href="/web/20070210033002/http://technorati.com/developers/ping/">Technorati ping integration</a> we can make it easy for weblog authors and other providers of semi-structured datafeeds to ensure that they receive high priority indexing services.</p> <p><a href="#top">Back to top</a></p> </dd> <dt id="claimweblog">What does it mean to "claim" a Weblog?</dt> <dd> <p>Claiming your blog establishes that you are the (co-)author of the blog and allows you to use our other Technorati services to help increase the visibility of your blog. By <a href="/web/20070210033002/http://technorati.com/account/blogs/">claiming the weblogs that you (co-)author</a>, your profile information will appear‚ if you wish‚ with your photo or image next to all search results that involve your weblog. When people click on your image, they can learn more about you‚ they see the information you want to provide to them about yourself‚ and discover other blogs you author. Naturally your profile information is completely within your control and all provided information is governed by the <a href="/web/20070210033002/http://technorati.com/legal/privacy.html">Technorati Privacy Policy</a>. You can also configure your claimed weblogs with blog tags so that it is searchable in the Technorati Blog Directory, as well as a description.</p> <p><a href="#top">Back to top</a></p> </dd> <dt id="Autoping">How can I set my blog up to ping Technorati with each new update?</dt> <dd> <p> Many publishing tools ping Technorati directly or allow for custom pings. You can also build your own. Technorati accepts XML-RPC pings to rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping.</p> <p> For more information on how to set it up, please refer to our <a href="/web/20070210033002/http://technorati.com/developers/ping/"><b>Ping Configuration</b></a> page in our <a href="/web/20070210033002/http://technorati.com/developers/">Developer Center</a>. </p> <p> <a href="#top">Back to top</a> </p> </dd> <dt id="tag">What is the difference between post tags and blog tags?</dt> <dd> <p> If you want to add tags to your blog, the <a href="/web/20070210033002/http://technorati.com/help/tags.html">Tags Help</a> section will help you do that. Tagging can occur on two levels: at the post level and at the blog level. Technorati members can tag at both levels! </p> <p> <strong>Post Tags</strong><br/> When you add Tags to your post, this will allow your posts to be listed in Technorati's tag search from <a href="/web/20070210033002/http://technorati.com/tag">"http://technorati.com/tags"</a>. To add the tags, add the below code for each tag you'd like add to your post into the body of your post <strong>(very important, since we only read tags if they are in the body of the post)</strong> </p> <code style="margin: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em;"> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/<var>[TAGNAME]</var>" rel="tag"><var>[TAGNAME]</var></a></code> <p> <strong>Blog Tags</strong><br/>On the Blog Level, as a account member, you can add tags to your blog from your Blog Configuration from <a href="/web/20070210033002/http://technorati.com/account/blogs">"technorati.com/account/blogs"</a>. These tags allow your blog to be listed in Technorati's <a href="/web/20070210033002/http://technorati.com/blogs">Blog Finder</a> and <a href="/web/20070210033002/http://technorati.com/explore/">Explore</a> feature. For more information or if you are not an account member, you can refer to our <a href="/web/20070210033002/http://technorati.com/help/blogfinder.html">Help Page</a>. </p> <p> <a href="#top">Back to top</a> </p> </dd> <dt id="tip">Can I search for words or tags in just my blog?</dt> <dd> <p> Yes. Try this to search for words in your blog: </p> <p style="margin: 1em;"> http://technorati.com/search/[SEARCHWORD]?from=http://[YOURBLOGURL] </p> <p> Try this to search for tags in your blog: </p> <p style="margin: 1em;"> http://technorati.com/tags/[YOURTAG]?from=http://[YOURBLOGURL] </p> <p> <a href="#top">Back to top</a> </p> </dd> <dt id="ranking">What is a "Technorati Ranking?"</dt> <dd> <p>A Technorati Ranking relates to the number of sources that point to a particular weblog relative to other weblogs. The more sources referencing a weblog, the higher the Technorati ranking. The Technorati Ranking for a blog is displaying in <a href="/web/20070210033002/http://technorati.com/search/">URL Search results</a>, <a href="/web/20070210033002/http://technorati.com/blogs/">Blog search results</a>, and is dipslayed in the account <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070210033002/http://technorati.com/profile"> profile</a> for all claimed blogs.</p> <p><a href="#top">Back to top</a></p> </dd> <dt id="embed">What features does the Embed Claim Script add to my blog and how do I show them?</dt> <dd> <p> Having the embed script in your blog allows you to use our features such as "Blogs that Link here", "View My Profile", "Show Photo", and "Search the blog". These allow users visiting your site to see how many people are linking to you and who they are, what topics you blog about, and lets them search your blogs by keyword. </p> <p> In order to be able to show the Technorati embed features, you will need to insert the embed script code (which also claims your blog) into the source code or template of your blog home page. </p> <p> To find the embed code, go to your <a href="/web/20070210033002/http://technorati.com/account/blogs/">Account Settings</a> and Click on "Configure Blog" for your blog. Under "Configure Embed Display", check the "Show Technorati Embed on my site" AND any of the "Include" options. Please note that our embed features do not include showing the Technorati icon only. </p> <p> Copy and paste the script code you see, preferably into the side bar code of your blog. For example, for Blogspot Accounts, log into your account, go to your dashboard and click on your blog. You should see Tabs for Posting, Settings, Template, View Blog. Click on the Template Tab. In the window, you'll see HTML code from the "Edit Current" sub-tab. Scroll down to the "SideBar" Code which should start where you see <em></em> Paste your embed code anywhere here. </p> <p> Once your blog is reposted/republished with the code, you are almost done. Go back to your Technorati Account's blog settings and be sure to save your changes to propagate the changes to your site and to Technorati. Afterwards, you should be able to see the Technorati embed features you selected. </p> <p><a href="#top">Back to top</a></p> </dd> <dt id="claimfeed">Can I claim a feed?</dt> <dd> <p> Nope, sorry. The claim code needed for a claim cannot be found in a feed. Thus, the URL of the blog is requested when claiming the blog. </p> <p> Technorati indexes a complete blog, starting with the HTML page and is assisted by RSS and Atom feeds. Try associating your feed to your blog, by adding link="alternate" code in the >head< section of your blog HTML to direct Technorati and other services such ourselves to your feed. For more information, refer to our <a href="/web/20070210033002/http://technorati.com/developers/help/tags/link_alternates.html">Developers Help Section</a>. </p> <p><a href="#top">Back to top</a></p> </dd> <dt id="changename">How do I change my user name?</dt> <dd> <p>For security purposes, changing a user's name is not an option. If you wish to change your user name you must cancel your current Technorati membership and create a new account with your desired user name.</p> <p><a href="#top">Back to top</a></p> </dd> <dt id="profile">How can I adjust my profile so that the "aka" info doesn't show or my name doesn't appear?</dt> <dd> <p> In your profile page "technorati.com/profile/{username}", you'll see that if a First and Last Name are entered in your profile, the profile will be displayed as "First Name, Last Name (aka Username"). You can configure your profile from <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070210033002/http://technorati.com/account">your account page</a> so that the "aka" is not shown by leaving the First and Last Name fields empty. Then, just your Username will be displayed.<br/><br/> <strong>PLEASE NOTE:</strong> Your Username is what is used as your display name in our pages, unless you include your First and Last Name. Please take this into consideration when you choose your Username depending on your privacy concerns. </p> <p><a href="#top">Back to top</a></p> </dd> <dt id="indexing">How can I produce better content for indexing?</dt> <dd><p>Help our spiders find your content in its entirety by outputting valid markup for your web pages and feeds.</p> <p>The <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070210033002/http://validator.w3.org/">W3C Markup Validation Service</a> will help you identify and correct markup errors on your site. Modern spiders can work around some errors but it is best to provide as little work as possible to index your site and display all of your content the way it is meant to be displayed.</p> <p>Technorati also indexes your feed to retrieve additional information and discern document structure. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070210033002/http://feedvalidator.org/">Feed Validator</a> will help you verify the markup of your site's syndication feeds and identify possible points of improvement.</p> <p><a href="#top">Back to top</a></p> </dd> <dt id="conversation">What does Technorati mean by "conversation"?</dt> <dd> <p>In this context, <em>conversation</em> is linked and iterated writing on the Web.</p> <p><a href="#top">Back to top</a></p> </dd> <dt id="watchlists">What are "Watchlists?"</dt> <dd> <p>By setting up a Technorati Watchlist, you are creating a customized report about the topics you care about. This free service from Technorati lets you define keywords or <abbr>URL</abbr>s (such as the <abbr>URL</abbr> of a blog you like) that will be tracked for you and presented to you as a Watchlist. You will receive updated information about your tracked topics as often as once an hour. A Watchlist using keywords will show you on which blogs those keywords start appearing, and lets you follow where conversations between blogs on that topic are developing. A Watchlist tracking links or <abbr>URL</abbr>s will show you when additional blogs are linking to the base <abbr>URL</abbr> you specified, so you can see the "conversations" that develop between weblogs on a day-by-day or hour-by-hour basis.</p> <p><a href="#top">Back to top</a></p> </dd> <dt id="receivewatchlists">How can I receive Watchlists?</dt> <dd> <p>Technorati's Watchlists are available via a <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr> feed. Please visit your <a href="/web/20070210033002/http://technorati.com/watchlist/">watchlist summary page</a> to create and monitor your Watchlists.</p> <p><a href="#top">Back to top</a></p> </dd> <dt id="deletefave">How do I delete my Favorites?</dt> <dd> <p>In order to remove one of your favorites, make sure you are signed into your account. Click on the red box with the "X" near the title of the post or blog. You should then see a message that the blog has been removed from your Favorites. 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