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.

Comments

[PSoTD]

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

[Serge]

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.)

[Diane]

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?

[KathyF]

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.

[CE Petro]

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)

[KathyF]

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.