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?
