Technorati Tags
I’ve recently been adding tags to each of my blog entries lately. I’ve been adding them at the bottom. A tag is pretty much blog-related. They are very much like keywords. I am able to put in a tag to let the technorati service know what my content relates to. In turn, they list it along with other blog entries that have the same kind of content.
With the blogger service, things are pretty limited when it comes to categories. The blogger folks suggest to create a second blog and use frames. Bah! I am looking into a way to categorize my entries using the Technorati tags.
So what does a tag look like? Here it goes:
<a href=”http://technorati.com/tag/[tagname]” rel=”tag”>[tagname]</a>
Simple eh? The cool thing is that you specify any URL you want in that HREF part of the link. You don’t have to link to Technorati. I’m always at a loss for trying to find places to link to, so I just link to the tag on Technorati by default. It’s a little slow though.
Eventually, I would like to build my own tag map of my website. If anyone has used Flickr, then you’ll know what I’m talking about. Flickr lets you assign tags to your images and you can navigate around your site by clicking the tags.
Anyhow, that is what the tags are all about. It seems that they are a little slow cataloging me, so I can’t realy give you an example of the end results with my own blog. However, clicking on the tags will take you to see links to other blogs that have been cataloged.
Tags: Tags, Technorati, Blogware, Links, Features, Code, HTML, Blog, Service, Experiment
April 26th, 2005 at 4:03 pm
All blogs except mine, because technorati, for whatever reason, doesn’t seem to think my site exists, even when I use the tags the same way you do.
On the other hand, using WP’s catagories is exactly like using tags on flikr, so my site does have that ability.
April 26th, 2005 at 7:23 pm
I’m not sure how the technorati tags help… is it like Wordpress, where you can categorize your posts by subject?
Oh and one more thing, are you buying lewismoten.com? There’s a placeholder on it apparently…
Another thing: is it just me or did Google move its entire main page upwards?
April 26th, 2005 at 7:46 pm
I’ve had lewismoten.com for many years now. I just don’t know if I can transfer the blog without losing my traffic.
April 26th, 2005 at 8:11 pm
Thanks for the explaination!
I’ve personally been googling for special features to put into my blog… I’m not sure what else could make it more user-friendly, as it presently stands…
I’ve been working on “downsizing” the side links and such, but now I’d like to give the place an “added touch” of some sort.
I kinda don’t want to do things like Flicker, Tagboard, polls (though I’ve tried that once), a “Blogs I Visit” list, and so on. But, I want to do/find something unique…
I’ve also attemped to learn C and C+ once via online manual, and I actually was getting the hang of it. The picture was becoming clear. Then suddenly I got stuck, and noone was out there to help me.
So, I just left it alone. I wish I hadn’t done that, otherwise I’d be writing programs of my own today, like you can. *sigh*
Ah well. On with the googling. ;8^)
Take Care.
April 27th, 2005 at 4:11 am
Lewie,
Help me with this. My Technorati profile has peaked at 20 links even though I have added 2-3 since then. do I lose old links?
April 27th, 2005 at 3:52 pm
I don’t believe technorati loses track of links. Just make sure that technorati has those other blogs in its database. You may have to ping them with the blogs url.
April 28th, 2005 at 4:43 am
Technorati? Is that like a new millenium version of the Illuminati?