How-to deeply embbed Technorati

hum…so nobody knows how to ping Technorati without having to manually build those tags ???

Haven’t found a way to do that, but I have found a simper solution using a free software program called Short Keys, where you set up macros, type the code, and your text magically appears. I use it for Technorati tags, signatures, etc. https://shortkeys.com/

I have no connection to them, just passing it along.

The following is how I have it set to type out, then just remember to add the tag at the end of the url, as well as in the description.

technorati tag:
https://technorati.com/tag/ rel=tag

technorati tag: technorati tag

Cheers!

thanks

I dont understand all those blogs are on technorati but none of them have tags displayed on their blog…i guess i’m missing something here

I dont understand all those blogs are on technorati but none of them have tags displayed on their blog…i guess i’m missing something here

Just because you don’t see them doesn’t mean they are not there. For technorati to see the tags, the tags must exist in the post. However, that doesn’t mean you can see them on your screen too.

Consider this bit of html:
<a href="http:/example.com/tag/blah" rel="tag"></a>

That will be seen as a tag by technorati or any other tag system, but it won’t display anything on the screen, because the link is empty. There’s nothing for it to display.

There are other ways to do it. One easy way is to include the tags on the page but then wrap them in a hidden span element, like this:
<span style="display:none"> Anything in here will never show on the page, though it's there anyway </span>

If you use UltimateTagWarrior, it has an option for “invisiblecommalist” which uses this hidden span method to put your tags into the page without showing them.

If you really want tags, get a tags plugin. UTW is great, I highly recommend it.

hum thanks for the tip. I do use UTW but those are tags for my blog not for technorati.

You cannot make technorati tag with UTW, can you?

Certainly you can. Any tags in the post will get picked up by Technorati when you ping them. All they’re really looking for is the rel=”tag”, and UTW inserts that on the tag links.

My tag links are to my own blog too, but technorati picks them up just fine.

Ideally, you want to include your tags in your RSS feed for Technorati to pick them up properly. Also, you want to use pretty permalinks on your tags, if possible. Having ?tag=blah is not going to get picked up correctly, I bet.

Oh!! now that’s cool!!! I used UTW for the tag cloud on my blog… if technorati get them then it’s awesome!! thanks a lot for info I really appreciate