Comments on: Technorati Problems – Update

By: The Pagan Temple

The Pagan Temple — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:59:51 +0000

I’m about ready to drop them from my site. The last few times I have tried to access their site, my computer freezes up on me and I have to log off before I can get away from it. I am on dial-up, so my speed is kind of slow, even with Propel, but still, Technorati is the only site that I consistently have this problem with.

I don’t think there is a customer service department to speak of. I think they just come in every so often, add whatever new feature they want, and then just let it run. I don’t think anybody is home at that site.

When I read your problem being listed in the top 100, I thought to myself, yeah, they probably want you to pay for that. Sure enough, that seems to be what you found out.

I have had more problems with them than any other site on the internet, and if they don’t do something quick, I am going to first take myself off their site (when I can find the spare five or six hours that will probably take) and then I am going to take them off my blog.

I am not going to continue to promote a site that has such consistently lousy service.

By: nicole

nicole — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:36:54 +0000

wow, i am a bit worried now about the pinging. Sometimes you just dont know when something comes up.

http://www.ezy-pzy.com

By: mummybot

mummybot — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:20:10 +0000

I hope they don’t ban for excessive pining because I have been ping happy trying to get mine indexed. My experience is bizarre, I hadn’t even thought of listing in Technorati and when I first visited there I noticed that many of my posts were already there. But they had stopped indexing inexplicably before I had even looked at Technorati in a browser let alone create a profile and start authorising my blog. I have done the respective auto ping/ping link from home page and create article with link code, and email support for further assistance. Reading this post and comments I am going to forget about trying to get Technorati going as expected and come try again in a month or so…

By: Computer Advice

Computer Advice — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:26:49 +0000

Do you think it’s possible to be bared from Technorati… by overpinging maybe? Just a thought like…
Technorati is really driving me around the bend at the moment as only one of my blogs seems to be working in the directory…

By: David Hobby

David Hobby — Wed, 23 May 2007 20:36:53 +0000

Darren-

Googling around to see that many, many people are having problems with Technorati.

As for my experiences with them, they seem to be imploding over there. You should do a feature post on the current state, along with alternatives for bloggers who are fed up and ready to jump ship.

I’ll bet that gets their attention better than a non-advertising email, too…

-DH

By: My Comments

My Comments — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:03:38 +0000

Technorati becomes deathnorati…

in response to post : Technorati Problems – Update by Darren Rowse Technorati becomes deathnorati claimed,…

By: saran

saran — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:59:51 +0000

“Technorati becomes deathnorati”
claimed, worked then stopped, now my blog has updated 99 days ago….Poorest customer support I have ever seen, no reply, only auto reply emails, I guess the ping sever validation is following some very strict rules. If any other service similar to this please suggests me, I would like to stop using this anymore. Moreover communities, blogs are controlling products, brands not companies. If they don’t listen then have to pay the price.

Kind grds
Saran

By: Ann D

Ann D — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:28:09 +0000

I can’t get any posts from my new blog to show up despite repeated pinging and yet I’ve never had difficulty with my other blogs. And the number of blogs that link to me resets to zero constantly. Go figure.

By: El Cerrajero

El Cerrajero — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:07:38 +0000

12-07-2006 and the same Brokenrati problem is still here: updated 192 days ago!

By: Technorati ne répond plus! at Benoit Descary

Technorati ne répond plus! at Benoit Descary — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 16:03:54 +0000

[...] Mon constat, si ce problème d’indexation a affecté mon blogue et que Technorati a un backlog important au niveau de son support technique, est qu’il y a sûrement d’autres blogues qui ont éprouvé ou qui éprouvent ce problème. A la suite d’une recherche, j’ai effectivement pu constaté que ce problème est récurent chez Technorati. Aucun détail sur la nature de ce problème n’est évoqué par l’entreprise. Même des blogues dans le top 100 ont déjà été affectés par ce mystérieux problème. Curieusement, l’information disponible concernant la solution de problème de ping et d’indexation est quasiment inexistante sur le site Web de Technorati. [...]

By: rxbbx

rxbbx — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:47:21 +0000

It’s sad.. I ve the same problems with some of my blogs. Other blogs of mine are updated correctly. That’s really frustrating.

By: My Technorati Problems: ProBlogger Blog Tips

My Technorati Problems: ProBlogger Blog Tips — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:47:38 +0000

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By: Jonathan Frieden

Jonathan Frieden — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:32:27 +0000

Here’s an outline of the steps I took to resolve my Technorati issues: http://www.squidoo.com/technorati_tips.

Let me know if they work for you.

By: ivoryfrog

ivoryfrog — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:27:41 +0000

I realise this post is a couple of months old now but I have only just found it (though google) after doing a search for technorati problems. I myself am having problems with their service – my blog has not been indexed for 87 days now and I have emailed them several times about it. Total silence on their part. It worked fine for me up until 87 days ago…I have no idea what “went wrong.” Not sure what else I can do really.

By: Lost Highway » Technorati doesn’t index any more my tags

Lost Highway » Technorati doesn’t index any more my tags — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 12:49:05 +0000

[...] That’s not an isolated problem, as many websites share their similar – bad – experiences : Hans Mestrum, Problogger, Mindblog, and so on. Look at the posts themselves, as well at the post’s comments… [...]

By: Technorati Introduce Favorites and Plays Favorites?: ProBlogger Blog Tips

Technorati Introduce Favorites and Plays Favorites?: ProBlogger Blog Tips — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 07:46:54 +0000

[...] Yep we’re still not being indexed. [...]

By: Plagiarism Today » Housekeeping: Technorati Problems

Plagiarism Today » Housekeeping: Technorati Problems — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:34:15 +0000

[...] I did some searching on the problem and I appear to be in good company. Many bloggers, including Darren from problogger.net, are battling this problem and appear to be unable to lick it. The only advice I found was to check the site for XHTML compliance. While the site failed miserably, all of the errors were minor and none affected the stories. In the end, fixing all of the errors I could produced no result. [...]

By: Tom Stone

Tom Stone — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:40:01 +0000

They should be called:

TechNOTrot.

No response to problems, no mentions of trouble on their site, incorrect stats *everywhere. Amazing.

I guess they just don’t care.

By: Quick Online Tips

Quick Online Tips — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:01:52 +0000

Try these 5 tips for better Technorati indexing. See if they work for you.

By: pcunix

pcunix — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:02:49 +0000

Oh, and as to whether a Google or other search is better, I’d say absolutely.

In the first place, there is a LOT of content that never has been tagged and never will be, so Technorati knows nothing of those pages. Secondly, there are too many idiot users who tag promiscously so you get unrelated content. Many of these are just lazy: because they *sometimes* write about SubjectX, SubjectY etc. , they tag every post with every tag they ever write about. Finally, the splogs of course lie about their tags (but then they lie about everything).

The result is that a tag search is going to miss some content and possibly turn up even more irrelevant content from people who open the salt shaker top to pour on their tags.

And that’s undoubtedly why I don’t see much from Technorati in my logs.. intelligent people realize all this pretty quickly and don’t search with Technorati or anything like it. All of us keep tagging our content because we are afraid there are people who DO search that way, so we effectively give the impression that these sites are valuable – and they really aren’t (my NSHO, of course).

Yeah, I know: there are “big names” who think tagging and social bookmarking is the flavor of the century, but I just do not see it, sorry. If it weren’t for the sploggers and the indiscriminate taggers, and if it truly were ubiquitous, then sure: tagging would be great. But in the real world, it isn’t.