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What's a Technorati tag anyway?
A Technorati tag is a keyword or
category used to describe the subject matter or topic of a blog post. For
instance, I've labelled my post
about ID cards with the tags Identity Cards, ID Cards, Government, Politics,
Society, Privacy, Human Rights, Identity Theft, Crime, Hackers, Terrorism;
whereas for my post
on the rather rude interpretation one-track minds can give to
ambiguously-worded Google Groups FAQs, I've used the tags Humor, Humour, Funny,
and Dirty.
So, Technorati tags are like the tags with which people label
their photos at Flickr, the free photo
management/sharing site (e.g. using the tag "Cat" for a photo of a cat). Or like
the tags used to categorise bookmarked Webpages at Del.icio.us and Furl, the services (also free) which enable you to
bookmark Web pages, organise/tag them and search your bookmarked Webpages from
any computer (Furl even saves a copy of the
Webpage on their servers). In fact, due to a hookup with those sites, when you
go to Technorati and view their page
for a particular tag, you'll see not just blog posts using that tag (e.g.
"Funny"), but also any pics and links to Webpages which have been given the same
tag by users on Flickr, Del.icio.us or Furl.
You can tag (i.e. keyword) a post with
anything you like. You can even make up a tag which didn't exist before anywhere
(such as my "Gnashing of Teeth"
tag for one
of my earlier posts) - and, theoretically, they'll still index it and
display it on their tag pages. (I say "theoretically" because I had real
problems getting any Technorati tags to
work - see this
post and this
post - but fortunately David Sifry the Technorati boss picked up on it (see
his comment at the end of my previous
post), and, miraculously, Technorati tags are now working for my blog - as
of last night. It's odd because it's been about a week since I posted or tagged
those posts - why did it take so long for them to show up on the Technorati tag
pages, when the Technorati's
info page on tags says that, after pinging them, "Your post should appear on
the page in a few minutes (up to an hour during periods of intense
activity)"?)
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How do you use Technorati tags in your blog?
That's the 64 million euro question. If your blog platform already supports categories and RSS/Atom (e.g. WordPress, Movable Type or TypePad), just assign categories to your posts and publish via RSS/Atom, and you're laughing - Technorati will automatically use those categories for its tags. (Though note that Technorati tags are more flexible than the broad "categories" used in many blogs - they can be anything from general categories to very specific individual keywords.) -
How do you use Technorati tags in your blog?
That's the 64 million euro question. If your blog platform already supports categories and RSS/Atom (e.g. WordPress, Movable Type or TypePad), just assign categories to your posts and publish via RSS/Atom, and you're laughing - Technorati will automatically use those categories for its tags. (Though note that Technorati tags are more flexible than the broad "categories" used in many blogs - they can be anything from general categories to very specific individual keywords.) - 1 more annotations...
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This is a introductory guide to "tags" on Technorati, the blogosphere search engine, which started using them in mid-January 2005.
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This is a introductory guide to "tags" on Technorati, the blogosphere search engine, which started using them in mid-January 2005.
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