How to Get a Technorati Badge

Adding a Technorati badge to your website is a great way to allow visitors to share your content.

Technorati is the leading blog search engine and directory, indexing over a million blogs covering a wide variety of topics. Technorati tracks the overall popularity of blogs and their influence on the Internet.One of the best ways to allow visitors to your website to share your content with other Technorati users is by adding an official badge to your blog. The following is a step-by-step tutorial on how to add a "Technorati Favorites Badge" for you website.

Things You'll Need

• Access to your blog's source code

Instructions

1. Identify where you will place the badge on your website. Select an area that is at least 145 pixels wide and at least 25 pixels tall.

2. Add the following code in the area you wish to display your badge:

   <a href="http://technorati.com/faves?add=http://yourblog.com/"><img src="http://static.technorati.com/pix/fave/tech-fav-1.gif" alt="Add this blog to my Technorati Favorites!" /></a>

3. Replace the snippet of code that reads "yourblog.com" with your blog's URL. Save your changes and upload your blog's source code to your web server.

Tips & Warnings

• If you want to use a different image, you may either replace it with one of your own, or use one of the other badges available through Technorati.

References

• SMOblog: Good, Clean Fun with Technorati Favorites