I feel that I am getting unquestionably nowhere with Technorati. I am fading at each turn. Google is coming up with no answers, but masses of further people with the same problems! What do I have to do?

One comment I read on the internet was that Technoratibot does not respect robots.txt. Well, hunting through the How To Start My Blog visitors logs, this is not accurate! It seems that Technorati checks the robots.txt file, then heads the RSS feed and at last takes a look through the feed. Here are the three lines that I see:

GET /robots.txt – 80 – 208.66.67.15 HTTP/1.1 Python-urllib/2.5
HEAD /index.php/feed/ – 80 – 208.66.67.15 HTTP/1.1 Technoratibot/8.1
GET /index.php/feed/ – 80 – 208.66.67.15 HTTP/1.1 Technoratibot/8.1

On HTSMB, there is no robots.txt. But, what is occurring on the other web-sites? Well, one has an empty robots.txt file and another prevents robots hitting certain sites, but not the weblog. The third non listing web site doesn’t have a robots.txt, so probably rulling out any implication that the Technoratibot needs explicit permission to trawl the site, if robots.txt is current. Unless something else is blocking out that website?

So my pursuit to get the rest of the sites listed on Technorati continues. I have lesser blogs to also submit, but I’ll leave them out until I know how to get listed!

I still have not cracked the brainteaser – just how do you become listed on Technorati?

To date I have tried putting the claim token as the first word of an existing post and the first word of a new post. I have altered my RSS feed to consist of the entire content of every post in place of just a summary.

I have deleted and recreated my Technorati claim and made certain that I am pinging the most up-to-date recognized Technorati address. As a final point, I even altered my permalinks so that the page construction was the same as on my How To Start A Blog website, which is the only one of the four websites to in point of fact effectively be listed.

It is totally ironic. H2SMB is a new site with an Alexa Ranking of 5,400,000, hardly any links in and the first post is only 7 weeks old.

The other three blogs have page ranks of 2 and 3, the best Alexa Ranking of the three is under 900,000, and one of the blogs has so many good links in that I’m constantly getting advertisers asking me to post their link.

So, what is so special about H2SMB that it gets an Authority of 119, whereas these three stay at 1, with no recent posts? There is only 1 additional answer that I can think of – sponsored posts. Since that site is so new, there are barely any there. The other sites have loads of offers. Do lots of posts with outbound links stop Technorati taking a website seriously?

If so, then this month may see that put paid to. I’ve been writing lots of posts for all of my sites as several series of work, to coincide with the 4th HAHD (now started). If these sites are showing “too many” sponsored posts, then the release of these posts may do the trick!