Comments on: How do I fix this?

By: Sonja Shield

Sonja Shield — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:47:29 +0000

I had the same problem - I got in the problem queue twice, and finally got it fixed after SIX+ months. Finally.

By: John Koetsier

John Koetsier — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:48:32 +0000

After months and months of completely intermittent and apparently random Technorati brokeness I have totally given up on Technorati.

It’s just so blood-boiling that a company that could be absolutely central to the blogosphere keeps unveiling new tools without actually finally, once and for all, fixing the broken foundations.

Unless they go back and fix the basics, they will eventually crash and burn.

By: Frank Field

Frank Field — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:17:41 +0000

Hi, Dan:

Over at Furdlog, I had to finally email Dave Sifry, who told me that Technorati had moved my blog to a “problem queue” requiring an individual to verify the feed. It happened around the day that I had upgrades my blogging software, so it may just have meant that Technorati had a particularly aggressive day of flagging bad feeds, followed by inattention to clearing the queue. I had to get into three digits of “this blog last updated” before I got it fixed, but they did.

FWIW

Frank

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:33:30 +0000

Thanks again to all who commented - Ed’s suggestions (FeedBurner, re-claiming blog) plus starting a completely new account on Technorati seem to have done the trick. Or rather, since I changed multiple variables at once, something in there has done the trick!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:13:28 +0000

Meh… I think that Technorati is b0rked. I have seen much the same thing with my blogs for months now, and I am using completely different blog software (blojsom). I have also seen numerous other people complaining about T’rati wasting time on new eye-candy rather than fixing these rather more fundamental problems.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 22:35:03 +0000

Looks like Technoratibot/0.7 used to be fetching the RSS2 feed but is currently not fetching anything at all when I ping Technorati. So that might suggest a problem with the feed - I’ll investigate using Feedburner…

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:36:53 +0000

Thanks again Ed - I’ll look at the logs and see exactly what (if anything) Technorati is fetching, and may well set up Feedburner.

By: Ed Costello

Ed Costello — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:22:59 +0000

I found that Technorati stopped indexing one of my sites after I made a mess of my feeds. While the feeds all worked, they were redirecting back and forth. I ended up settling on using Feedburner for my feed, and then I went back and followed the “claim” process for Technorati. Once I did that the feed started showing up again.

One other thing you might check is to see if technorati is fetching your site or feeds (you have to check your access logs for Technoratibot/0.7).

By: Steve Portigal

Steve Portigal — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:29:36 +0000

It took me a long time to get them to start indexing my site. Now I see that they haven’t indexed it for 54 days or something. And the other complaints you link to make me think I shouldn’t bother chasing them down. All that work in tagging and everything and they are ignoring me? Lame!

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:17:40 +0000

Thanks for that, Ed. That first post’s a sticky (using a Wordpress plugin called Adhesive) but the content could easily be included somewhere else (e.g. linked from the masthead).

I’ll try disabling the sticky function and see if it makes a difference to Technorati’s indexing.

Cheers
Dan

By: Ed Costello

Ed Costello — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:51:13 +0000

I don’t know if this is the cause, but your post of 16/11/05 seems to be pegged as the first item in the RSS and Atom feeds for the site. Though that should not have any effect, it’s possible that that is confusing Technorati’s indexing agent.