IdolHands.com :: Days in the Life of an Alpha Geek
I'm feeling extremely frustrated with Technorati right now. The fact that LiveJournal has problems interacting with Technorati is one of the main reasons that I moved to Blogspot in the first place, but even after moving blog hosts Technorati is still not indexing Radio Bantik at all.
I've successfully followed Technorati's procedure for claiming my blog, and I'm using their tag format, but nothing seems to be working for me.
For example, my blog is tagged (in my Technorati account) with the keyword WebObjects, but searching for blogs tagged with WebObjects does not reveal my blog at all. This runs contrary to their help documentation, which states: "Once you've tagged your blog with either of the methods above, your blog should be listed in the Blog Directory in a few minutes (up to an hour during periods of intense activity). Thank you for participating!" (A blog last updated 345 days ago, that no longer even exists, does appear in the results list, however.)
I'm using their ping tool when I update, but the site still says that my last update was 8 days ago. No searches against tags in my blog posts work.
I've sent e-mail to their support address, but the only reply that I've received so far was from an autoresponder. I'm going to try again in a few days, but in the mean time I feel like I'm beating my head against a wall, writing posts that no one will ever read.
Grr.
Update
I resent an e-mail to Technorati's tech support, but I still haven't received a reply. However, I think I know what the problem is, and I believe it's architectural. Since Technorati already knew about a blog named Radio Bantik, as I had previously claimed it at the old address, it was not indexing the new (moved) Radio Bantik. Why didn't I just update the URL of the original blog in Technorati's configuration? Because they don't let you change the name or URL of the blog that you have claimed! So, once again, grr.
However, I have since changed the @#!$ blog once more so that Blogger posts to my own server, so once again I reclaimed the blog through Technorati. And... it seems to be working now. Mostly. Searching is still a little iffy, but at least I show up in the blog directory now.
