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What do do about unsavoury inbound links?

peacay — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:04:25 -0800

Just lately a lot of less than savoury sites having been linking to my blog. What's the story? Technorati link. Flip back through the last say 7 pages or so. Many but not all of the flotsam are gay porno sites it seems and have just been linking in the last 2 or so weeks. (I did brave looking at one of them which had a captcha screen entry but I could see my site among a list of gay porno sites on page source view). There are more than 10 sites recently and from memory, in the past there may have been 1 or 2 of these in about 18 months.

I'm only annoyed because it obscures the real linkers and sometimes it's a tad difficult distinguishing between the two.

Why do they do it? Does it matter? Should I do anything? Why is this happening at the moment? Is it just me or is this a wider happening? Or is this just a technorati thing?

How To Fix Technorati's 'Claim A Blog'?

meehawl — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:44:57 -0800

Does Technorati "Claim a Blog" actually work? Every few months I remember to try to update Technorati. When I enter my blog address, I get a message:

There was a problem claiming your blog. Please try again in a few minutes.

It's been like this for months. My old "claim" said it had not been updated in 100s of days (despite auto and manual pings) so I deleted it. Is it now impossible to re-assert a claim for the same URL? I've emailed the tech support there several times but any messages just seem to go into a black hole. Does anyone have any experience with "fixing" a broken claim?

Bloggeratti Tags

trinarian — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:37:17 -0800

Looking for ways to better manage history through Technorati tags, so of course there's First thing to know: I'm working behind the Great Firewall of China. Technorati is blocked but I have limited accessibility through a proxy server. I cannot log into my account.

Second, Blogger uses no tagging support, so... yeah. I've been adding tags into all of my archives all night. Every post begins with a "Treyopia" so I can search "Treyopia stories" in Technorati tags and have the right material - my short stories - pop up. It works on the Technorati side.

Maybe I'm over my head, but it seems I could draw up the same scripts and data [titles, post numbers, even the first few words...] and do something corny like a tag cloud or something a little more sophisticated.

The overarching goal is to redesign and make the site feel less bloggy where older posts are as easy to pull up as newer posts... so everything comes across as content, not just updates. It's a structural bias in the blog format.

I could manually do what I want, but I guess I thought the beauty of the new Web 2.0 architecture is that you 'fire and forget it' with posts.

Technorati alternatives

commander_cool — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 14:14:35 -0800

Technorati seems to be less and less accurate and comprehensive. Are there better alternatives for searching blog content?

Best strategies for defeating sploggers who are lifting my content.

IndigoSkye — Tue, 23 May 2006 10:08:46 -0800

I've had a couple smaller splogs that gave up after a period of time. However, one splog has persisted and, through volume, is showing up higher in searches than my original posts. What can I do? It's not the lifting of the content that I have problem with, I publish an RSS feed that others pick up with a credit link back to my blog. It's the wholesale reprinting of articles without even so much as a link back to my blog.

Besides ignoring them and hoping they'll go away, what are some good strategies for getting them to stop republishing my posts? Also what ways of contacting RSS aggregation sites (like Technorati) and asking them to drop the splog feeds have worked for you?

Tags on WordPress

danb — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:00:22 -0800

I'm sick of trying to group the posts on my WordPress blog by category. What plugin do I need to use tags instead? I've seen WordPress blogs with Technorati tags, but after some Googling there seem to be a ton of plugins to accomplish that. Which do I want? Is that even the right approach, since Technorati has been the suck lately?

I'd settle for something that'd let me create categories on the fly with each entry, since that's essentially the same thing. Bonus points if there's a way to create a tag cloud, a la Flickr/del.icio.us/Ask MeFi.

Is Technorati broken?

caddis — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:08:29 -0800

Is Technorati broken? I have used it in the past to see who is linking to something, but now it misses even MetaFilter links. At least as of about ten minutes ago it did not catch the following MetaFilter links:

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html
[posted here]

http://marketrac.nyse.com/mt/index.html
[posted here]

http://www.draftruss.com/
[posted here]

If it doesn't find a link on MetaFilter what else is it missing?

Good Free RSS Feed for Keyword Search on Weblogs?

kokogiak — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 10:09:25 -0800

Anyone know of a good, reliable (free) RSS feed for Weblog Keyword Search? Technorati seemed like the most likely candidate, but they don't currently export keyword searches to RSS. I've found a couple others that do, including Feedster (a bit slow) and I thought that Blogines might do this, but they say they don't currently export keyword searches.

What I'm looking for is something as groovy and reliable as Yahoo News Search RSS (example keyword Metafilter) - but searching Weblogs, not the news. Any/all suggestions welcome - I'd rather not resort to page-scraping. Oh, and I forgot to mention I'd also tried Daypop as well - but for whatever reason, it seems to flake on me rather often.