Getting not-so-technical with Technorati
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So now that you’ve been blogging for awhile, you might be wondering just how big the blogosphere is. Well, according to Technorati, the leading search tool and authority for blogs, over 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media are currently being tracked by the site. There are over 175,000 new blogs (that's just blogs) being created every day.
Yes, these numbers are astounding, but as you’ve already seen for yourselves, blogging is so easy that these publishing tools are being taken advantage of by almost every industry, including libraries.
So how does a person get their blog listed as part of the blogosphere and how can you tag your posts with keywords to make them more findable through a Technorati search? The answer to the first question is that your blog is probably already being captured by Technorati due to the fact that you're already using Blogger, the most popular blogging tool. But if you want to join the party and have your blog officially listed on Technorati and also take advantage of the watchlist and other features, you’ll need to claim your blog yourself. The "Claim Your Blog" section is located towards the bottom of the blog directory page. As for tagging posts with Technorati tags? This is easy, too. Technorati will pick up these tags when it spiders (or web crawls) your site.
A lot of new features have been added to Technorati in the last year, including new ways to search for blogs. You can search for keywords in blog posts, search for entire blog posts that have been tagged with a certain keyword, or search for blogs that have been registered and tagged as whole blogs about a certain subject (like photography or libraries).
Discovery Resources:
Technorati Tour – videocast of features (this is a bit dated but you can still get some ideas what kind of features are available)
Explore Technorati What is Popular feature.
Discovery Exercise:
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So now that you’ve been blogging for awhile, you might be wondering just how big the blogosphere is. Well, according to Technorati, the leading search tool and authority for blogs, over 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media are currently being tracked by the site. There are over 175,000 new blogs (that's just blogs) being created every day.
Yes, these numbers are astounding, but as you’ve already seen for yourselves, blogging is so easy that these publishing tools are being taken advantage of by almost every industry, including libraries.
So how does a person get their blog listed as part of the blogosphere and how can you tag your posts with keywords to make them more findable through a Technorati search? The answer to the first question is that your blog is probably already being captured by Technorati due to the fact that you're already using Blogger, the most popular blogging tool. But if you want to join the party and have your blog officially listed on Technorati and also take advantage of the watchlist and other features, you’ll need to claim your blog yourself. The "Claim Your Blog" section is located towards the bottom of the blog directory page. As for tagging posts with Technorati tags? This is easy, too. Technorati will pick up these tags when it spiders (or web crawls) your site.
A lot of new features have been added to Technorati in the last year, including new ways to search for blogs. You can search for keywords in blog posts, search for entire blog posts that have been tagged with a certain keyword, or search for blogs that have been registered and tagged as whole blogs about a certain subject (like photography or libraries).
Discovery Resources:
Technorati Tour – videocast of features (this is a bit dated but you can still get some ideas what kind of features are available)
Explore Technorati What is Popular feature.
Discovery Exercise:
- Take a look at Technorati. Go to the advanced search, use the URL search feature. Put in our library's website address "www.pbclibrary.org" and find all the blogs that link to it and what they say.
- Do a tag search for web 2.0. What do you find? What are the related tags? Is anything interesting or surprising in your results?
- Create a blog post about your discoveries on this site.
OPTIONAL: If you're up for a challenge, learn how to tag your posts with Technorati tags so they can join tag searches.
View a list of people who have completed a progress report for each week.
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