Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Blog Tag Blues
I think I am starting to "get" tags, Technorati-style:
If I'm right, and blogger aka blogspot is sending the feeds it claims, I should be able to find the post I tagged and published an hour or two ago: I cannot. Let me try signing in at Technorati and doing a "pull".
According to my notes, (yes, I keep a written log of my registrations)
Trackbacks are the next blogging and reticulating technique to master.
Tags: tags thinking out loud
- the last bit of the href="http://somedomain/keyword", i.e. "keyword", is indexed if the link also contains rel="tag".
- the indexing happens if Technorati gets a ping from the post, or the blog owner, registered with Technorati, signs in at Technorati and "pulls" the post.
- the text in between the [a ]and the [/a] is not the tag, and need bear no relation to the tag!
- the tag can even be (sort of) invisible if there is no text in between the [a ]and the [/a]
If I'm right, and blogger aka blogspot is sending the feeds it claims, I should be able to find the post I tagged and published an hour or two ago: I cannot. Let me try signing in at Technorati and doing a "pull".
According to my notes, (yes, I keep a written log of my registrations)
- I registered with Technorati on 6 March 2005 with one of my e-mail addresses but, unless my notes are incomplete (possible, but I did log the date and password) I did not enter a "username". Now, however, I must enter a username (not an e-mail) to sign in. Going through the "lost password" process, which does accept my e-mail as an alternative to my forgotten username, I manage to sign in. But, no sign of my blog.
- I believe I re-registered on or about the time I started this blog, in September; why I didn't note this at all, I don't know, but I find no trace. Fortunately, I do not have too many e-mail boxes. Bingo! Another password update, another sign-in.
Trackbacks are the next blogging and reticulating technique to master.
Tags: tags thinking out loud
# posted by Maurice Lanselle @ 1:21 PM 
