Technorati doesn’t like free wordpress.com users February 18, 2007
Posted by showmescifi in blog, blog search, google, news, scifi, technorati.trackback
There was a time when I though that Technorati was the ultimate blog search tool.
That is until i moved to wordpress.com and realized that Technorati is inferior to Google’s blog search in terms of getting new posts indexed. In fact Technorati in my opinion is so far behind Google in getting wordpress.com indexed that i think that wordpress.com users should avoid Technorati all together.
Allow me to fully explain.
Technorati has a description on it site of how to do automated ping for wordpress. The problem is that it doesn’t work with WordPress.com.
What really alarmed me and showed me how far behind Technorati is – comes from a recent experience where a post of mine was the top post on WordPress.com for the day. Technorati showed inbound links citing my post – but suprisingly the post itself was not listed in content feed for showmescifi.wordpress.com until nearly 12 days later.
I contacted Technorati several times over this period and all i ever got was a form email:
[technorati.com #65651] AutoReply: [Support] Indexing – Last Updated date for my blog has not changed though I ping Inbox
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Feb 7 Dear Technorati User,
Thank you so much for taking the time to drop us a line. If you are reporting a problem you may be having you will be contacted by a support technician once we have had a chance to review your message.
If you don’t hear back from anyone within a week, please accept our apologies for the delay as we may be experiencing a backlog in Support. Please feel free to send us a reminder of your ticket. Please be sure to include the subject and ticket number, “[Support] Indexing – Last Updated date for my blog has not changed though I ping #65651], ” in your note so we may properly track your issue and its progress. In the meantime, you can also check our Support FAQ located at “http://technorati.com/help/faq.html” which may answer some of your questions.
If you have written us to share feedback, ideas, or suggestions (if the Subject line contains [Feedback] vs [Support]), you will not normally receive a response but we do appreciate and value any and all comments, alerts and suggestions.
We appreciate your patience and thank you for using Technorati! We hope we may be of service.
Best Regards,
Technorati Support
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Now let’s take a look at Google’s blog search in comparison. Google is up to date for ShowMeSciFi.wordpress.com within 3 hours of a post. Technorati doesn’t even come close at anywhere from 2 days to almost 2 weeks even if I do a manual ping.
So the question is – what’s up with Technorati? Is it just for bloggers who host on their own? I used to wonder why Technorati was till independant and hadn’t been bought by Yahoo! Google or Microsoft. I think I now have part of my answer.
Show Me SciFi 
yeah its pretty irritating. I’ve had to manually ping it every time my feed is updated. I feel your pain. They really ought to fix this.
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We’ve been implementing some changes over last few weeks that are increasing the reliability of our updates from third parties. However, I strongly suggest that folks ping us directly. If you drag
http://technorati.com/ping/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fshowmescifi.wordpress.com to your browser bookmark bar and poke it every you post, I expect that will smooth things out for you.
thanks,
-Ian Kallen
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