SEO 2020 FORUM

[rickstooker]

Hi, Charles,

OK, here's my first remaining question. It's not in your primer, but from a
reference you made somewhere on this site, I learned that Technorati has
a special link you can include in a blog post to have a Technorati tag
created when you ping that post to Technorati.

I never know that before. Should I just start adding it to all new blog posts
or should I go back and republish all prior blog posts adding that link? Or
would that be perceived as spam?

thanks,

[Charles Heflin]

Technorati has a good tutorial on how to ping them. Refer to that for now until I have a chance to write a tutorial here.

http://www.technorati.com/developers/ping/

I hope this helps for now. I will cover this in more detail in the coming days.

All the best,

Charles

[rickstooker]

Hi, Charles,

Thanks, yet I can't wait to ask this follow up question.

I know that with Technorati tags you can link to either Technorati or
your own site, with the tag links.

I used Technorati at first, then thought, hey, I want people to go to
my site. And I'm also thinking that as long as I have the tag link in
my blog post and I ping Technorati, it will then create a tag in
Technorati. Which interested people can then click on and be taken
to my site.

Am I understanding correctly?

I ask, because I just realized I should check out which you're doing
with your tags, and I saw they link to Technorati. Is that because
your blog is already on this domain anyway?

My blog's on Blogger. Should I link to my own domain where I want
people to go, or to Technorati?

thanks,

[Charles Heflin]

[rickstooker]

Thanks, I don't recall reading that in Technorati's instructions. Let's see if I understand.

1. Post to my blog with a link to Technorati to create the tag.

2. Ping Technorati.

3. Next day, write a post to my blog with a link to my own website
with the identical tag, so interested people will be sent to my own
website when they click on the tag.

4. Ping Technorati.

OK?

[Charles Heflin]