Struggling with Tags
Issue 31; 24 Feb 2005; last modified 08 Oct 2010
, Technorati doesn't seem to like my tags. Maybe putting them in the Atom feed will help?
For reasons unknown,
Technorati isn't finding or
using the tags I've added to each essay. This despite the fact that
I've pinged them for each updated article. They don't seem to have
noticed the dc:subject
tags in my Atom feed either.
I've just tinkered things a bit so that there will
be an atom:category
tag in the Atom feed as well, maybe
they'll recognize that.
Hopefully, that change won't make your aggregator think that every essay has changed. Apologies, in advance, if it does.
Comments
"If your blog software supports categories and RSS/Atom (like Movable Type, WordPress, TypePad, Blogware, Radio), just use the included category system and make sure you're publishing RSS/Atom and we'll automatically include your posts! Your categories will be read as tags."
One might like to have tags that differ from the blog category system (e.g., finer grained), but I think this might give me 80f what I want with virtually no effort.
I lose. Technorati is still not finding these essays and adding the tags to the Atom feed didn't help.
*shrug*
I had the same problem, until I matched the exact case between my Technorati tags and my del.icio.us bookmark tags... Now Technorati likes my tags and picks up new articles from my feed. HTH, --Scotty
According to http://consumingexperience.blogspot.com/2005/02/technorati-tags-introduction.html the case shouldn't make a difference. There are some other tips in that page that might be useful too, as it took the writer a week to get the tags recognized.
If you look at your Technorati profile, it has a parse report of your blog: "RDF Parser: Could not open File: http://norman.walsh.name/foaf. Stopped parsing."
Hope that solves the problem :-) Michael
Thanks, Michael, I've fixed that bug, but I don't think it was related. At least, fixing it doesn't seem to have helped.