Sunday, April 16, 2006

Technorati Tags How to's

To associate a post with a Technorati Tag all you have to do is tag your post by including a special link in the body of your post. For example:
<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/%5Btagname%5D" rel="tag">[tagname]<a/>

The [tagname] can be anything, but it should be descriptive. Please only use tags that are relevant to the post. You do not need to include the brackets, just the descriptive keyword for your post. Just make sure to include rel="tag".

You do not have to link to Technorati. You can link to any web page that ends in a tag - even your own site! For example, these tag links would also be included:
o <a href="http://apple.com/ipod" rel="tag">iPod</a>
o <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity" rel="tag">Gravity</a>
o <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/tags/chihuahua" rel="tag">Chihuahua</a>

Once you have posted the tagged post, there are two ways to have your post included on a Technorati Tag page:

* If your blog software is configured to ping Technorati, congratulations! You're done!
* If your blog software does not support automatic pinging, or if you haven't set it up yet, or if you're not sure, you can manually ping us here. You might also want to configure your blog software to ping us automatically so you don't have to do that every time.

Your post should appear on the page in a few minutes (up to an hour during periods of intense activity). Thank you for helping to build the real-time web.

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