Feb
22
2007

Technorati

An article by Karen

I must be getting old, because I really don’t know how Technorati works. I’m not sure what happened, but I found myself there tonight. I signed in – after many long months – and discovered the blog I had “claimed” had the old url. In my efforts to fix this little issue, I ended up deleting the entry and having to start again.

Now, the url is correct, but the entries showing up a quite old – it’s showing “last updated 204 days ago”, which isn’t true. I’ve tried pinging the site, but to no avail. I added another site and it worked straight away. I’m sure I didn’t do anything different for this site. Obviously, I have no idea what I’m doing. Help!

What’s the deal with Technorati anyway?

About the Author: Karen

Karen is a writer of fantasy novels and short stories for children, young adults and adults. She also loves to read fantasy, thrillers and the occasional romance. When she's not writing or reading, she enjoys spending time on the PS3 or catching some fresh air whilst walking the dog.

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Paul 23 February 2007 at 12:14 am

I wish I could help you with this. Maybe it will take a couple days to update the data. My only advice was to “ping” your site and you have already done that. Maybe technorati is confused and is checking http://www.karenleefield.com/ still instead of the blog?
Benjamin Solah 23 February 2007 at 5:52 pm

Technorati is a blog search engine and it’s meant to be real good. Of course, there have been problems lately and my blog hasn’t been reaping the benefits.

My blog doesn’t ping straight away either. It’s been doing this for a while. I’d say the difference with ‘Crumbling Walls’ is that it’s on the wordpress domain and the pinging is a bit more secure.

I’d really like to solve this problem.
Scribe 24 February 2007 at 2:29 pm

Paul, I thought the same thing, but I’m not so sure now.

Thanks for explaining what it is meant to do, Benjamin.

I checked it out again today, and still no change. I went to the help forums and it seems a LOT of people are complaining of the same thing. I’ve left my details in the hope Technorati can fix my site, like they did the others.
Yzabel 24 February 2007 at 4:46 pm

I wish I could help. It’s been so long I haven’t really cared about updating all that stuff that I’m completely lost as well…
Scribe 24 February 2007 at 7:57 pm

I don’t know if support fixed it for me or if it fixed itself, but it’s now working correctly.