Technorati Sign Up Tutorial

This is a Step-by-Step visual guide to setting up a Technorati account and adding tags to your posts. Once set up your posts will be submitted automatically.

Go to the main page at Technorati.com and click on the JOIN link.

On the next page enter your Username (Minimum 4 characters long), Email and Password (Min 6 characters).

Now being that it is a Social Media site, you can add details to your profile on the next page. But for now we are going to skip this and click directly on the BLOG link.

On this page you can Claim Your Blog by entering your URL

You should have 2 choices - depending on your blog type - as to how you claim your blog:

• Quick Claim is great if your are with a blog host like Blogger or TypePad, etc. You will be asked for your Username (if you use your google account to sign into blogger, include the whole email address, Username@gmail.com). Enter your blog password and then click the ‘Quick Claim Now’ button. If you have any trouble use the back button and retry using ‘Post Claim’.

• Post Claim, you will need to create a new post and copy in the simple HTML code provided. When thats done hit the ‘Release the Spiders’ button for verification.
  You can delete the post once this is done.

Now that you have proved ownership and claimed your blog you can customize your blog description, language and add some Tags. These are tags for your overall blog niche, have a browse around Technorati before you add these. I will show you how to add tags to your individual posts later in this tutorial.

On the right hand side you will notice your ‘Authority: 0′ in green, this is the overall number of blog back links that you have or how many other blogs are linking to you. This number will determine the exposure that your posts get on Technorati, there is no quick way to increase this just try to have quality content that people will want to link to. Click on the live ‘Authority’ link to see your current back links.

Scroll down and you will find some buttons that you can add to your blog posts or sidebar by copying in the HTML code provided.

These will make it easier for Technorati Members to add your blog to their favorites. Every Social Media and bookmarking site has a button or widget you can add, too many can quickly turn your blog into a mess so choose the best performers based on where your traffic is coming from. Read my article on Free Blog Stats for more details.

Click the ‘Save Blog Info’ button when your done.
To find this page later:

• Click the EDIT link next to your user name
• Click the Blogs Tab
• Lastly click the ‘Edit Settings’ button

Setting Your Blog To ‘PING’
You can do this manually from Your Technorati Settings page (Blog Tab), but I highly recommend setting your blog up to automatically Ping Technorati when you submit or publish your posts. This tells Technorati to index the tags on your post. All the details - depending on your blog - are in the following link…
Technorati Ping Configurations

For Blogger users this is set up by default, to make sure just go to SETTINGS / PUBLISHING and make sure ‘Send Pings’ is set to yes. Your blog must also be Public.

Add Tags To Your Blog
If your blog doesn’t support categories, you can add Technorati Tags to your posts manually. To associate a post with a Technorati Tag all you have to do is include a special link in the body of your post. Two word tags should be joined by a “+”.

Just copy, paste and alter the following code:

<a href=”http://technorati.com/tag/[tagname]” rel=”tag”>[tagname]</a>

<a href=”http://technorati.com/tag/[tagname]+[tagname]” rel=”tag”>[tagname tagname]</a>

The [tagname] can be anything, have a poke around Technorati.com for popular tags. Just make sure to include rel=”tag”.

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