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Get found! Include Technorati tags at the end of your blog posts. This will put your post into the list of posts searchers find on Technorati when searching for the tags you used. more »
Ego surfing is simply running a search of your own name through an internet search engine (hence the “ego” part). There are very good reasons to engage in this seemingly narcissistic behavior, such as: keeping track of what's been posted about you, good or bad; discovering authorized (or unauthorized) usage of... more »
ScribeFire is a free Firefox add-on. It's easy to download and install in Firefox. Use it to quickly add a post to your blog from any web page you are currently viewing. Here is how to do it. more »
One of the biggest challenges facing Internet businesses as well as brick-and-mortar businesses with an Internet presence is how to drive traffic to their website. Blogs have become the premiere resource for word-of-mouth advertising, and one way of gaining exposure (and visitors) to your site is through placing meaningful comments on... more »
Twitter is a microblogging platform similar to an instant messaging program. You can set up your twitter account to automatically notify (tweet) your followers whenever you post a new blog entry. Learn how to set up auto tweet so that your blog rss feed will automatically post to twitter. more »
Everyone can hear you in cyberspace and blogging is how to let your voice be heard. Here are...
Technorati is a website dedicated exclusively to blogs and personal sites. It compiles of blogs, titles, authors and users like no other site... more »
Technorati offers an expanded set of features and tools to users who join the site by signing up for a membership account. By creating a... more »
If you operate your own blog, you can use Technorati's blogger tools to monitor traffic and much, much more. Track the number of Web sites your... more »
Creating an account for your blog on Technorati and having one of your widgets on your site will help your promote it like nothing else.... more »
Using Technorati to claim your personal blog is an ideal way to generate more traffic and increase the visibility of your blog in the mile-wide,... more »
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Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. By June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. The name Technorati is a portmanteau of the words technology and literati, which invokes the notion of technological intelligence or intellectualism.
Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry and its headquarters are in San Francisco, California, USA. Tantek Çelik was the sites Chief Technologist.
Technorati uses and contributes to open source software. Technorati has an active software developer community, many of them from open-source culture. Sifry is a major open-source advocate, and was a founder of LinuxCare and later of Wi-Fi access point software developer Sputnik. Technorati includes a public developers wiki, where developers and contributors collaborate, also various open APIs.
The site won the SXSW 2006 awards for Best Technical Achievement and also Best of Show. It was also nominated for a 2006 Webby Award for Best Practices, but lost to Flickr and Google Maps.
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Technorati looks at tags that authors have placed on their websites. These tags help categorize search results, with recent results coming first.
Technorati rates each blogs "authority", the number of unique blogs linking to the blog over the previous six months.
Criticism
In February 2006, Debi Jones pointed out that Technoratis "State of the Blogosphere" postings, which then claimed to track 27.7 million blogs, did not take into account MySpace blogs, of which she said there were 56 million. As a result, she said that the utility of Technorati as a gauge of blog popularity was questionable. However by March 2006, Aaron Brazell pointed out that Technorati had started tracking MySpace blogs.
In May 2006 Technorati teamed up with the PR agency Ede read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technorati
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