Letting people know about your blog - technorati, etc.
One of the best ways to get your blog out there is to let people know about it. This can be done by a number of ways, this article is focusing on technorati.com. This website is defined by it’s owners as:
“Technorati is the recognized authority on what’s happening on the World Live Web, right now. The Live Web is the dynamic and always-updating portion of the Web. We search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) increasingly referred to as “citizen media.” “
So what does this actually mean? I don’t know the full extent of it yet, but I do know that you can set up a free account on their site and add your blog to their database of blogs. The objective of course is to ultimately be noticed by the blogging community on technorati.com and get lots of traffic. This is sort of like google.com, but for blogs.
I just finished registering this blog at technorati.com, wow, I’m only ranked 8,911,336, I wonder how long it takes to move up 100,000 (or rather down 100,000)…
Someone suggested that I also register the blog at blogskinny.com which I promptly did only to find out that in order to get verified, I need to put one of their image / track back code snippets which tie back to an affiliate program that pays them! Am I missing something? Is it worth it to register at blogskinny.com and give them free advertising to be included in their search engine?
Note to self: review and study blog search directories, the good, the bad, the ugly.
Tags: blogging, search engine, search engine optimization, SEO