Technorati - I’ve yet to see the benefits
Alot of bloggers write about Technorati and while I’m not familiar with the process and its benefits, I’ve become aware that to signup to sites such as Review Me I have to have a good Technorati ranking.
So, last night I decided to sign up to Technorati to see what the fuss is all about and to see if I can do anything to improve my ranking.
In the whole half an hour of signing up I couldn’t actually complete the process. I filled in the register page and received an email with the confirmation link and clicked on that link - but apparantly the confirmation code was incorrect.
It took me three times before it realised that the code was infact, correct.
So then I start the process of claiming my blog. I filled in the first page but when I clicked submit it send me to the register page as if I were a new user.
I tried logging in with the username and password I’d just registered with but apparantly my password was wrong, so I did the whole “forgotten my password” and they sent me another email with a confirmation link. So I clicked the link and sent me back to the register page!
At this point I was getting annoyed, so I filled in the “forgotten my username” to see if that made a difference, to which I got another email and another confirmation link. I clicked the link and lo and behold - I got a page that told me the username I entered doesn’t exsist!
At this point I decided to try registering again with the username I’d registered with earlier, you know, the one that doesn’t exsist? Well, it wouldn’t let me register because apparantly that username does already exsist!
After that I ended up switching my computer off and now it’s 8am the next morning and I’m trying again, and yay! It’s let me login, and it’s letting me start the claim on my blog. Fingers crossed it works this time!
Apparantly, I have to post a link to my profile in a new post so Technorati knows it’s really me registering, so here it is: Technorati Profile - I’ll be sure to post again about Technorati to let you know if I do actually get any benefit out of it.
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I had a lot of trouble with it and have not bothered putting any of my new blogs details into it.
Still lot’s of people do use it and it can provide some traffic.
Yeah I know a lot of bloggers who use it and praise it for its usefulness, and now I’m finally registered I may be able to use it properly, but I did find it a pain and that has put me off slightly.
I’m set up on Technorati on a few of my blogs, but haven’t had much success with it (in terms of traffic). But people look at your rankings as a form of “social proof”… I just haven’t got into using Technorati.