Back when I used Movable Type for a previous blog, I came to rely on Technorati’s ping service to get my posts tagged. It rarely failed, though in the last few months of the blog’s existence, Technorati’s indexing of pings became more and more erratic.
Now that I have a new blog, using WordPress 2.5.1, the indexing of pings is simply nonexistent. I’ve claimed this blog with Technorati, manually pinged several times via my account, used every possible version of adding tags at the bottom of posts, deleted and republished posts with a different code, sent Technorati emails on the subject (they are notorious for never answering), and bitched in the Technorati discussion page along with the others. The result? Zip.
Take a look at the Technorati Discussions page and you see complaint after complaint. Over at the WordPress Forum, folks don’t even bother to reply to queries about their Technorati pings going into the ether. There are pleas for help going back several months, all unanswered. Clearly no one is wasting their time on a failed enterprise.
That nothing is impossible has been proven by Google. Somehow, they seem don’t miss a thing. Therefore the conclusion must be reached that Technorati is currently in the hands of incompetents. Perhaps Google should buy Technorati?
UPDATE 2 July 2008: Technorati actually answered my query! Here is what they said:
Subject: [technorati.com #135162] Most recent posts not indexed AND “Last Updated” date IS NOT updating?
From: Zoe McLaughlin via RT
Message: “Janice handled via the forum.”
I assumed they meant the above mentioned Discussions page, so I went there. No sign of the topic mentioned, so I put the info into Search. Nothing came up for either item. So I put my bloody name into search and presto! This is what they said:
Hello Will. Our apologies for any inconvenience. I checked your blog and all looks to be indexed.
But wait a minute. My blog is brand new with a whopping rank of 3,900,162. Whose gonna look for my blog?
I want the bloody posts to appear under the proper tag when I enter whatever it might be in the the subject line of Technorati Tags. In this case “bukowski”. That’s where someone looking up what’s new with Charles Bukowski will find entries for both new blogs and those with huge authority rankings.
And guess what? It’s still not there.
The tech problems must be frustrating, but I’m so glad that you’re back into blogging.
Richie, you were one of “my” favourites at Bilegrip. We went through a lot together! Don’t know why “I” put myself through all this hassle, but this blog is still in betabeta. Sooner or later, though…