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!

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