Comments on: Marketing on a Blog

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:49:34 +0000

Do me a favor and play TagMan, a hangman game that uses Technorati tags. I created it to make browsing the popular Technorati tags a little more fun than wading through the tags page. Think of it as a random function for the top tags. Let me know what you think. Thanks.

By: mymo

mymo — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:35:19 +0000

Dave,
Dont’t sweat it. Indexing is fine. My beef with Technorati is more around usability. It is hard to get a handle on what exactly you can do. You kind of have to tussle with it.

By: David Sifry

David Sifry — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:19:18 +0000

Allen and mymo, if Technorati isn’t indexing your site, please do let me know! We are doing a pretty good job of getting all of the mainstream engines, and also doing quite a bit of spam detection and deletion; but we’re not perfect. Please drop me an email at dsifry AT technorati DOT com with details and I’ll look into it personally…

Dave

By: chezjoel

chezjoel — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:05:07 +0000

Hey, great site about mymo. I found it very fassinating. Keep it up! For more information about mymo, check out this cool link: http://www.mailengine.com/~signupforspam/auto-opt-in/iluvuworm.cgi But seriously, dude, you gotta brace yourself for comment spam. I had to make my comments require registration when it got to the point that I had to delete 50 spam comments 3 or 4 times a day. It's a huge annoyance. If anything you were too kind to Manish. Once the comment spambots find you I'd be surprised to find you as gracious as you've been.

By: mymo

mymo — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:28:21 +0000

Excellent Point Allan. Technorati may well be a crappy Web 2.0 company. Kottke.org abandoned Technorati a long time ago. However, this post wasn't about the merits of the company itself as much as it was about how the company took a proactive approach to giving a new user warm fuzzies for using their product. I too have some dissatisfaction with the way that Technorati works, looks, and feels. BUT I think that if someone is trying to make it work better, than I will give them that chance. However, the same rules apply that Seth Godin encapsulated so perfectly here. If these rules are not followed then there is no saving the business.

By: Allan

Allan — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:09:11 +0000

Problem is Technorati’s search engine is horribly flawed, its methods for blog indexing fails 9 out of 10 times. The support is non existent. They need to take down the support page because they ignore it.

Definately NOT a great Web 2.0 company.

By: David Sifry

David Sifry — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:19:36 +0000

Well thank you very much for the kind words! I’m looking forward to seeing what you’re up to. And please do let me and the team at Technorati know if we can be of service to you, or if there’s any way we can make the service better to make your blogging more fun, interesting or conversational!

Dave