How to Use Technorati

Technorati is a website dedicated exclusively to blogs and personal sites. It compiles of blogs, titles, authors and users like no other site online. This can help you both as a reader and as a site designer/creator. As a reader, you can filter and customize content through Techhorati. As an author, Technorati can help you draw content to your site and see which posts are more popular, for example. Here are five things you can do with Technorati.

Things You'll Need

• Registered blog, if you have one
• Technorati account

Instructions

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   Read a blog's content feed. Just like any other RSS feed reader, Technorati provides you with blurbs of content from any blog registered on the site. Let's say you want to read blogs about the presidential elections. Just go ahead and do a blog search--by name, author or a simple word--and click on one of the blogs that show up. The latest content on the blog or site will display as a list of posts that you can read on Technorati or by following the links to the original site.

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   Read reactions to a blog posting. As if it were a conversation thread, Technorati will show different reactions to entries after they were posted, and how blogs link to each other when covering the same topic.

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   Check a site's authority. Technorati classifies blogs and sites by authority, that is, the number of times someone posts a link to your site. The higher the rank, the more incoming links you have to your site. If you just registered yours, this number might actually be a question mark. Don't worry; Technorati is gathering information about you site.

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   Post a Technorati widget on your site. Get the best out of Technorati and visit the Blogger Central. There, you can find all sorts of widgets and gadgets available for you to use on your own site.

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   Explore multimedia content. Technorati selects and updates all the photos and videos that have been uploaded to the web and through different blogs. You can check them on the photos and the video section as if it were a gallery. Instead of visiting all those blogs, you can check the content with one click.

Resources

• Technorati