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November 16, 2006

Understanding Web 2.0, or How to Increase Your Blog Traffic

What I don't understand about Web 2.0: If Technorati Tags are universally held to be a Great Thing, why don't they ever work for me? (And why doesn't TypePad know how to spell Technorati?)

What I have come to understand after reading lots of blog posts on how to increase your blog traffic: Titling a post "How to increase your blog traffic" or "Six tips to increase your blog traffic" will increase your blog traffic.

Another thing I've gleaned: Using the term "Web 2.0" means you're one of the cool kids, and all those Web 1.0 users will eventually be overcome by a superior force from a world beyond. The remnants of their culture will one day be examined by anthropologists aboard the USS Enterprise.

At least the Neanderthals' DNA survived.

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Web 2.0 - anyone who uses that term is so 20th Century. It's WebPlatinum now.

The remnants of their culture will one day be examined by anthropologists aboard the USS Enterprise.

Resistance is futile. (Electricians might disagree with the Borg, of course.)

Technorati tags work fine for me, but I cannot get Google to retain my blog in its engine, so there you are. It took forever to get into Google, and then, one day--poof!--my blog was gone. It has never come back.

What is the problem you are having with Technorati tags, Kathy? Are they not being read or do they disappear?

If you click on one of them at the end of one of my posts where I've included them, my blog never shows up. I had the same problem a year ago, and gave up.

Google works fine for me, however, to my amusement. So I guess it's a trade off.

Kathy, I used the same Technorati tag as you, and kept checking the tags (I gnerally don't check things like that). Eventually, maybe 6 or more hours after posting, my post showed up at Technorati, yet I haven't seen your post. Interesting, though, supposedly Technorati (as well as Google) are pinged automatically when I post. Why it would take more than 6 hours to show up is a mystery to me.

The only thing I can think of is to recheck pinging Technorati under yourweblogs> configure> publicity
Not that Technorati holds up their end (as seen by how lng it takes for a post to show up)

I'm still mystified by Technorati tags. I've checked back days, weeks, after posting a tag and nada. I wrote them a couple of weeks ago and haven't heard anything back. I'm really surprised Technorati is such a hot property in the blog world.

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