Technorati trouble & ads
07/10 2006 | 12:24 PM
Posted by: Janko Roettgers
Technorati stopped indexing this website two weeks ago, and I have no idea why. I have since validated the RSS feed as well as the XHTML, and I have also made some changes to my templates. I've tried different methods of pinging the Technorati server, and I've looked for help on other websites - with no resolution yet.
Then today Technorati offers me to anwer a survey - and I think: Great, let's tell them their service doesn't work. Turns out it's just about potential advertising solutions and commercial widgets. Even worse: Technorati tells you to get lost if one of your blog isn't primarily targeting a US-based audience - even if you have other blogs that still might be relevant:
"We appreciate your efforts, but unfortunately you do not fit with the specific criteria we are pursuing for this project. Thank you for your time."
Now if I only knew how to make P2P Blog fit their crieria for pursuing their original project, namely indexing blogs ...
Then today Technorati offers me to anwer a survey - and I think: Great, let's tell them their service doesn't work. Turns out it's just about potential advertising solutions and commercial widgets. Even worse: Technorati tells you to get lost if one of your blog isn't primarily targeting a US-based audience - even if you have other blogs that still might be relevant:
"We appreciate your efforts, but unfortunately you do not fit with the specific criteria we are pursuing for this project. Thank you for your time."
Now if I only knew how to make P2P Blog fit their crieria for pursuing their original project, namely indexing blogs ...


Michael Kamleitner wrote:
I'm afraid there's nothing u can really do about this. the same thing happend to me a month ago - technorati would just stop indexing anything I post (no matter if I ping'ed manually...). I did some research (I'm using self-hosted wordpress) but didn't find any useful hints, just complaints from other bloggers. the problem disappeared by itself after a week or so... and it seems to work since than...
greetings,
michael