I did have a validation nightmare on my Wordpress blog, commented here (with the Technorati problem mentioned in the 4 postings before that).

Best of luck to all of you in ‘Technorati Limbo’

-Marc

First I’d like to send a hearty thank-you for your help. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I just noticed that Technorati is now indexing my site after a 70 + day embargo.

I’m one of those bloggers with messy HTML. I’ve used W3C, and it’s not that I don’t want to fix it… I just don’t don’t know how. I use Drupal’s “Goofy” theme because it’s one of the simplest and my understanding of code is very, very limited.

One of the reasons I don’t have ads on my site yet is because I was concerned that if Technorati thought I was a splogger, then perhaps Brainshrub.com was also on a “suspicious blogs” list with other search engines.

If I was on any “suspicious blogs” list, I didn’t know if ads would push me onto the full-fledged blacklist the way Technorati did.

My fear was probably irrational – but there is much I don’t understand about SEO. (This is why I visit Problogger every day.)

I am probably representative of many bloggers who are inadvertently running sites that make Technorati-bot wince. Therefore, if there is anything I can do to help Technorati experiment or troubleshoot, have them contact me. (brainshrub a-t gmail d-aw-t com.)

I would be happy to help their bots learn how to tell the difference between a splog and a legitimate blog so that future writers won’t face the same dilemma I did.

P.S.: I’ll be upgrading my CMS, and the theme, as soon as Drupal v4.7 gets out of beta. I hope this will make for smoother code and be easier for the spiders to index.

Do you think such an upgrade will put me back on the Technorati blacklist?

I’m glad your indexing problems have been solved.

I’m looking at each of the commenter’s problems, and sent on to our support folks the issues, so hopefully a bunch of you will start seeing things working again. A few of you have some issues with the HTML of your blogs because you use custom templates that make our spiders go a little nuts and fail, we’re working on that too, but one thing you can do is to go to the W3C HTML validator and try to fix up your blog templates so that you eliminate as many errors as you can.

http://validator.w3.org/

Dave

“Last updated one minute ago!”

Hooray!

I am 100% convinced that it was because that I posted in this thread that something was done. How else did I get Technorati’s attention?

Thank you Darren and thank you Technorati.

To Technorati: I’ll start re-using the tags next week. Thanks again. I hope it stays fixed.

:)

QUESTION::: are we too dependent on Technorati? Are there alternative ways to get our blogs into public areas where they can be found immediately, that is, the same day a timely topic is posted?

I had the same problem with not being updated in Technorati despite having multiple links there. I did multiple emails and phone calls with no result, until I talked to Dave at the Northern Voice blogging conference here in Vancouver. He asked me a few questions, typed a bit on his laptop, and in a few minutes said it was fixed.

So the moral of the story is if you have a problem, try and find a way talk to the CEO, they more likely to be biased towards action than their subordinates.

I wonder if this is an attempt to fight spam/splog, or something. But it shouldn’t affect us real bloggers, right?

I commented on the original Technorati post – and my problem was fixed in less than 24 hours. This time my problem was solved within hours of commenting on this post.

Coincidence?

I stopped putting in the tags until I get indexed again. As of this post, Technorati says that I havn’t updated my blog in 71 days.

I’m sure the customer service people are swell, and I have nothing against them. I’m just tired of sending polite emails.