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Re: New Technorati Tag Pages: Good For Them, But What About You?

Buzzy Bee Blogger — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:22:30 -0000

I should also mention, no follow tags can be really useful. You can use them to direct the flow of your page rank through your blog. Some pages shouldn't be ranked in search engines like your contact page. In that case, no-follow-tag all the links to your contact page.

Re: New Technorati Tag Pages: Good For Them, But What About You?

Buzzy Bee Blogger — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:08:01 -0000

I see the point of using the tags. I don't see the point of posting blurbs. Technorati adds a no follow tag to your blurb hyperlink and doesn't allow you to insert related anchor text. I see the blurbs as a way for Technorati to generate updated content. I don't see how the blurbs help the bloggers it all. Am I missing something? How do the blurbs help your blogs? Do the blurbs help generate more traffic to the tag pages? And if that is the case, wouldn't you need to be in the top of the tag page to make it worthwhile.

Re: New Technorati Tag Pages: Good For Them, But What About You?

Tony Karrer — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:00:53 -0000

In some ways this is a good idea, but I think they are missing the mark a bit. A better model would seem to be forming niche communities like we are doing with sites like eLearningLearning.com and NonProfitTech.com. Then you can apply quality filters through various social signals that help to result in something way better than you get with tags:

Compare what you get with:

http://technorati.com/tag/l...
vs.
http://www.elearninglearnin...

In terms of quality of results there's no comparison. Maybe if they get huge adoption, they will get somewhere. I just don't see many bloggers adopting it as it stands.

Re: New Technorati Tag Pages: Good For Them, But What About You?

harold — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:16:58 -0000

"See also: HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Technorati"

I't be good to have a section on your site called "How to get the Most out of!" pretty much something similar to TC's crunchbase

Re: New Technorati Tag Pages: Good For Them, But What About You?

slym — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:41:22 -0000

Technorati is very popular but it does not work well for me, infact others like stumble and mixx are able to generate good results for me.
I will try out option mentioned here and hope this time i will be lucky

Re: New Technorati Tag Pages: Good For Them, But What About You?

Lena — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:26:53 -0000

Have done 1 - for the spotify tag. Quite a fun new little feature but yeah we'll see where users and Technorati take it.

Re: New Technorati Tag Pages: Good For Them, But What About You?

iTrust Financial Advisors — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:36:16 -0000

This feature will help Technorati get more content and traffic to their network and bloggers will also get benefit of it.

Re: New Technorati Tag Pages: Good For Them, But What About You?

Jen McLean — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:47:11 -0000

Thank you very much for the mention.

While this may not move the needle for Top 100 who already have their own huge followings, we're hoping this will be a great opportunity for long tail bloggers to get their writing in front of a larger audience and bring their fresh, original voices to our pages. The tags that will be the most interesting may very likely fall outside of the top 100 tags - ideally a blogger will publish multiple tags across their niche and create some new tags of their own. If you check out BlogCritics you'll find the content far from marginal. We will be looking to them to apply the same standards here.

Re: New Technorati Tag Pages: Good For Them, But What About You?

ocbody.com doc — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:39:04 -0000

I did a few of these and have noticed no increased traffic as of yet.