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May 27, 2005

Still Messing With Technorati

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Posted by Stowe Boyd

[Update: Niall Kennedy commented that I had left the necessary 'rel="tag"' filed out of some of the tags that I was creating, so at least some of what has been going here is operator error, I guess. I will be more diligent about that, going forward. He also notes that an XHTML check of this blog comes up with a slew of errors, which could be driving spidering sites like Technorati crazy. Hmmmm. That will have to wait for a template facelift -- which will be coming over the next month or so.]

So, despite all the emails and comments from Technorati over the past weeks about how they have plugged the strange gaps in updating and so on, I am still getting wierd results. For example, if you go to Technorati, and search on the keywords "continuous partial attention" (just like that, in quotes), a number of recent posts here at Get Real and elsewhere show up (see Technorati: Search for "continuous partial attention"). Note that this means that Technorati is indexing these posts. However, a search for the tag of the same name -- which I have used in several of those posts that show up by keyword searching -- pops up the strange message "No Posts Yet!" But this is the same 'not updating the tage results pages' bug I discovered a few weeks ago, isn't it? And some of these posts are three or four days old, not something posted an hour ago. Oh, well.

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1. Niall Kennedy on May 27, 2005 10:37 AM writes...

Hi Stowe,
I see your tagged post for continuous partial attention on our tag page. Looking at the source of this post I see you did not add a rel=tag to your tag of Technorati so you should not expect this post to show up on a tag page for "Technorati."

You might also want to run your pages through a XHTML validator to check for errors. I see over 200 reported errors in the markup of this individual archive page and over 300 reported errors in the markup of your blog's main index. I even see some Movable Type template tags being output on your index page. Valid markup helps search engine parsers find more data in your page and identify the proper structure.

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2. Stowe Boyd on May 27, 2005 10:47 AM writes...

Niall -

Ugh. Thanks. I will add the rel="tag" stuff, which I do try to use in general.

We are mving to a new template, so hopefully the XHTML stuff will fall away.

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