About a week ago, I suggested knitters can find good knit blogs by visiting Technorati's Knitting Tags page. Unfortunately, lately Technorati is buggy. (I don't want to go into detail, but let's just say, when I visited before writing this post, the "most recent article" tagged knitting was supposedly over a day old. Uhm... no.1 )
Now, I'd very much like Technorati to fix whatever weird problem they are having, but that's not in my power.
Instead, I've decided to try to establish my own knitting tags page2. I set up a code, and inserted it into this page.
So, here is my incomplete list of the latest 20 blog articles about knitting published over the past week:
Links
No Trackbacks Yet!
Ok. Pretty incomplete, right? If you got here soon after I hit "publish" on this article, you'll find nothing listed!
That's because I have a chicken and egg problem. To create the list, I need to persuade you and fellow knit bloggers to participate. After it's created, blog readers can read the list and find your blog. Then other knit bloggers will visit the page and say 'I want to be listed so readers will find me!' Then, they'll participate. Then readers will read the list and so on.
Right now, I'm asking you to be either chicken ... or egg. (Beats me which.) To make a link to your blog article appear, use this simple two step "tag" and "ping" process every time you write a blog article:
- When you write your article, insert a link to this page: that is, insert this link: <a href="http://www.thedietdiary.com/blog/lucia/510"/>Knitting</a> (This will be "the tag". It's required to prevent spammers from filling up the list. I suggest you place it at the end of your article in some sort of trailer.)
- Send a trackback ping to http://www.thedietdiary.com/blog/lucia/510/trackback/ (Pinging is really easy, but if you don't know how, please ask in comments. )
Many of you are already doing a similar thing to get listed by Technorati. So, I'm some of you already "get" this idea and can pretty much figure this out. Otherwise, ask in comments and I'll try to help.
Now for the usual disclaimers: I plan to post all knit blog articles that ping me. However, I will moderate entries to make sure they are related to knitting, they aren't just spam, the links actually load a knitting page and to make sure no individual knitting blog article appears more than once. ( I reserve the right to reject for any reason. )
But, disclaimers aside: Ping me and help visitors find your blog!
End Notes:
1. The current weird behavior at Technorati is entirely different from the weird behavior Amy reported earlier. I find the new weirdness more aggravating.
2. Once people begin to ping, I'll edit this blog article to highlight the new blog articles. I'll also publicize it to help people find it!
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I’m glad you noticed the problem too. Part of the problem seems that they are no longer using the categories as tags, at least for Typepad blogs. Maybe you should ping the CEO of Technorati — http://www.sifry.com/alerts/
Comment by Amy (17 comments.) — 11/6/2005 @ 8:31 am
Well, whatever they changed did, they haven’t communicated with bloggers. I’ve tried to stick the tag in manually, instead of using wordpress tags, but that doesn’t work either.
Anyway, regardless, I know *I’d* like to have something up and working the way the old page did!
Out of curiosity– can bloggers using Typepad create a list of people to ping *everytime* you publish? (I know you can add for *each* article, but is there a list for everytime? With Wordpress, if someone wanted to ping me constantly, all they need to do is go to the their adminisitration panel, click “Options”, then “Writing”, scroll down and add me to their list of sites to auto-ping. I have “ping-o-matic” and “Technorati” on my ‘ping every time’ list.”)
I know Movable Type has a ping box– and theirs is actually better. It can be adjusted to only ping for certain categories.
I’ll email the ceo!
Comment by lucia — 11/6/2005 @ 9:17 am
Hi, Amy. Technorati did “see” my previous entry. (It’s still not seeing most knitter’s entries.)
Here’s what I did: I looked up the *manual* tag they suggest inserting. I added that to the footer of my blog article– look down with all the rings stuff. So, basically, I’m showing Technorati the tag two ways– 1) by using Wordpress tags and 2) by runningthe manual tag in the footer.
We’ll see if the “notice” my next article!
Comment by lucia — 11/6/2005 @ 9:44 am
I don’t think the change was intentional. I bet it’s another bug. Whatever it is, it’s annoying.
Comment by Amy (17 comments.) — 11/6/2005 @ 9:56 am
Have you looked at IceRocket recently? It seems to be picking up new posts quite well.
http://blogs.icerocket.com/search?q=tag%3Aknitting
Comment by Amy (17 comments.) — 11/7/2005 @ 9:52 am
Cool! I didn’t know about Ice Rocket. They found mine.
It seems to work better than google’s blog finder.
Google also seems to look for the word “knitting” but also to do some sort of weird ranking thing, so many of the smaller blogs don’t show. Some older blogs show for days and days, newer blogs never show. (And frankly, I find many, many of the newer blogs are just more interesting. They show more KNITTING, which is what I mostly want to see.)
Comment by lucia — 11/7/2005 @ 10:00 am