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How To Get More Traffic From Technorati - Tips Straight From The Horse’s Mouth

November 8th, 2006 • Related • Filed Under

A long time ago when I was just starting to blog, I questioned the value of adding Technorati tags. An employee of Technorati replied saying the best way to get picked up by Technorati is to display tags on the homepage as Technorati don’t follow links to individual pages:

Hi there,

We’re not picking up your tags because they don’t show up on your blog’s main page or in its feed. They are tucked away under the ‘read more’ link on a separate page.

If you put full posts on the main page, we’d index you more completely. If you put the tags at the top of the post so they don’t get truncated out of what we index, they would show up too. We don’t follow links to individual post pages.

I’m finally getting around to implementing this advice on my new theme by adding my tags to my homepage and also lengthening the length of my homepage excerpts, to give Technorati more to crawl.

However, does anyone know how to customise Wordpress feeds so that my tags are added to every post?

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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#1

Comment by Martin on 8 November 2006:

The biggest problem I see with this approach is that you will loose lots of visitors who click on the technorati tags leaving your site this way.

I don’t think technorati won’t pick up the keywords if you have them at the end of the article and ping them every time you write a new one.
#2

Comment by Everton Blair on 8 November 2006:

You don’t need to actually link to Technorati for the tags to be picked up. All Technorati are looking for is rel=”tag” within your pages to find the tags. So, you can either keep the tags hidden or use another tagging service like Ultimate Tag Warrior (which I use as it does so much other stuff) that adds rel=”tag” to its tags, and keeps any clicks within your blog.

It’s definitely worth doing as when I followed Technorati’s advice on my old Blogware blog, literally overnight I started to get a lot of traffic. Tags also help users find similar posts on your blog.

I must have been too tired when I made this post last night, as making the change is a doddle with WordPress as it’s easy to have different layouts for the homepage that generates the RSS feed, and the actual full posts. What I’ll do when I get online tonight is make my tags part of the homepage excerpt so that they get included in the feed, but leave them in their normal place at the bottom of the full post.
#3

Comment by Martin on 8 November 2006:

How would you add the tags to your feed ?
#4

Comment by Martin on 8 November 2006:

Found the settings, will try that out. My previous tags plugin did not seem to work that well. Hope the new one will do me a better service.
#5

Comment by Everton Blair on 8 November 2006:

Why don’t you use UTW? It’s the most flexible and you can do so much more with it.
#6

Comment by Cristian Mezei on 9 November 2006:

I use the Bunny script. It’s the best IMHO.

I also modified it a bit, so I added a nofollow bit to the links.

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#7

Comment by Martin on 10 November 2006:

I switched and like it really much..
#8

Comment by Steve on 24 August 2007:

I’m really not sure of the best way to use tags. Can you recommend a good tutorial?
#9

Comment by Sudipto on 20 September 2007:

I am also not getting enough traffic from Technorati.