Hello members! We have reached 203 Members! I will be reporting the newest additions in the next installment on the Blogs That Flickr | Weblog. I can also say from experience that pinging your blog each post, pays off. It can bring you much more traffic if you are properly listed in multiple blog directories. ping - to contact, usually in order to remind of something; In weblog terminology, pinging is the act of sending a small notification to a central server that says “Hey, there'’s new stuff!”. In most blogging applications, i.e Moveable Type, this is fully automatic.
Google "flickr" and our homepage come up as the 71st result out of over 9 million web pages --- I think that is pretty fantastic, as we have only been on the web for 5 months. As time progesses who knows how far we will move up the google pages.
As your ring mistress I am compelled to introduce this ring to as many internet sources as possible. I sit for hours submitting to web directories and leaving comments on other blogs or forums. The more known this ring/homepage is the more traffic it brings to our members.
Technorati has been a big part of this - since using technorati tags I have seen our exsposure and site traffic jump in leaps and bounds. Not just here on our hompage but on my other blogs also. If you are not too familiar with technorati tags let me break it down.
Tags are mainly a category or subject. The purpose of tagging your post would be to optimise your blog to be as searchable, as possible. Technorati searches by url and by text in posts, but more specifically tags. Technorati is alerted of specific tags and posts by ping services.
Does you blog support categories? It is very easy for bloggers who use blog platforms such as Moveable type; WordPress or Typepad to become tag- optimized. If you are publishing Autodiscovered Atom/RSS this will allow technorati to automatically read your categories as tags ! For example your template may show categories as :
For those of you who use blogger/blogspot or similiar blogs as your platform - whether it is hosted on your domain or on blogger, these sites are using the Blogger API
Some blog platforms are configured to automatically ping certain sites. if you would like to add code to your blog
Everyone who blogs and post regularly should ping their blog ! This is the best way for you to alert potential readers you are indeed a blogger on the web.
The posts that are tagged, are compiled and displayed in a feed for each specific tag. Technorati has enabled these feeds in RSS so you can easily keep tabs on the newest trends according to subject : For example Blogs That Flickr.
Want to let others know you are a Blog that flickrs??
Just cut & paste this snippet into your "post footer" of your blog template. Then make sure to ping your blog after each new post. Technorati will list your blog on the Blogs That Flickr tag page.
For most blogger platforms there is no code configuration. We are stuck to do this task through a 3rd party.
I use 2 sources to ping my blog : Ping-o-matic and Pings.ws
Both sites ping multiple sites, 13- 15 different ones at a time. Ping-o-matic has server issues due to the amount of pings happening at any given time. I ping them and usaully have error messages for several of the pings --- usually for Blogshares. So Pings.ws is my back up --- I usually get better results and haven't had error messages yet, it pings blogshares with no problems.
You can use this same snippet for other tag subjects. The most important thing to remember is that if you are using more than one word per tag --- seperate the words with a + sign.
You may want to go to the main technorati tag page and search for your blogs name. In most cases the page hasn't had any tags yet. Using the specific tag for your blog allows for your blog to become even more searchable, and these tag pages rank high on the google search results as seen in this screen shot for flickr :
The search results were 11 out of 9 million results.
24.8.05
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