Technorati Sucks, Officially
I use and develop NP_TechnoratiTags for NucleusCMS. Technorati just didn't work with this plugin and on my blog.
First off, I install NP_PingPong, which ping Technorati when I added a post. As far as I can tell, the ping goes out to them and they replied with a "Thanks for the ping!" and that's it. I check my server log (and even wrote a plugin to monitor spider coming to my blog) but Technoratobot is nowhere to be seen. From Technorati stat, my blog was not upgrade for over 200 days now.... and of cource it's not true.
This is not the only problem, they seem to be just ignorant to problem and not willing to work with developer. I email them about this and going to do some debugging with them, no response at all for weeks. The last time I contacted them on the problem they claim it is because my blog is not HTML 1.0 compliant as my blog declared as... ok, it's a problem on my side. But their bot is hitting my RSS feed, which is not HTMl anyway. So, it doesn't matter my blog is invalid.
I will continue to use and work on my plugin, sicne it has evolved into a tagging system plugin for my blog, the Technorati tag function becomes minor now. I might going to support other tagging site in the future.
First off, I install NP_PingPong, which ping Technorati when I added a post. As far as I can tell, the ping goes out to them and they replied with a "Thanks for the ping!" and that's it. I check my server log (and even wrote a plugin to monitor spider coming to my blog) but Technoratobot is nowhere to be seen. From Technorati stat, my blog was not upgrade for over 200 days now.... and of cource it's not true.
This is not the only problem, they seem to be just ignorant to problem and not willing to work with developer. I email them about this and going to do some debugging with them, no response at all for weeks. The last time I contacted them on the problem they claim it is because my blog is not HTML 1.0 compliant as my blog declared as... ok, it's a problem on my side. But their bot is hitting my RSS feed, which is not HTMl anyway. So, it doesn't matter my blog is invalid.
I will continue to use and work on my plugin, sicne it has evolved into a tagging system plugin for my blog, the Technorati tag function becomes minor now. I might going to support other tagging site in the future.
Comments
Admun wrote:
12/06/06 21:26:44
Admun wrote:
Funny thing is shortly after they pick up my blog, it stopped... Technorati still suck
01/26/07 07:23:52
Just fix my blog's skin to be XHTML 1.0 Transitional, now Technorati picks up my blog.... I guess you really need to have a XHTML valid blog to be working with Technorati. Also, I still have not found Technoratibot's signature.