Living Within Samsara

- Disabled Bunny’s Technorati, WPNotable and Related Posts
- Ripped Bunny, Notable, and Related posts from single.php
- Will make a new post and let WP auto-ping Technorati

Here we go…

Much later: That didn’t do it.

Have put in another tech request for assistance at Technorati.

About 32 hours later: Response and an apology from Tech Support saying they’ve been backlogged. She said she has set the spiders loose and now my more recent articles are showing up. I noticed that my older ones weren’t however and sent an email back wondering why that was and why it still said it hadn’t been updated in ____ days - which were the same days as last time. We’ll see what happens.

Suggestion: As another wsbsite suggested, send in a request to Technorati tech for assistance as to why your site is not being properly indexed. Until they or we can understand why in the first place - if ever - I guess we’ll have to just wait and see.

I emailed tech support and that’s when it became addressed. I think that since they didn’t let me know what specifically happened, that it was maybe a glitch they don’t want to talk about. :)

I suggest you email tech support. I suggest all people with the problems of not properly indexing time after time emailing tech support, as it was nothing I could duplicate, isolate or solve.

Still have the issue of old posts not showing up or even looking as if they’ve been indexed. So, keep in mind this may happen to you if they are successful.

Cat - It’s very frustrating when I get in bed with a service [ free or not doesn’t matter] and then the service I have learned to accomodate so it can serve me better, does upside down. NOT just goes upside down, but goes upside down AND customer support is lacking extremely.

It’s frustratingly maddening.

I don’t want anyone to make the mistake of thining Technorate fixed my problem. No.

My old posts are _not_indexed. When they “set the new spiders loose” my old ones went kaput and I have what…five now? So my blog - AFAT is concerned has five entries?

If you want to do what I did, I would support that - Google “technorati not pinging” and watch the Blogosphere soar. Then post. Post your problem. Copy and paste baby! Copy AND PASTE. LOL

I have heard nothing back from them again. Although this support rep’s email said “Email me if I can be odf further assistance” and I did….explaining the NEW problem and nothing.

Technorati may have been a service people were turning to, but let’s face it. Google is still how people will find blogs. And if Technorati can’t get straight with Wordpress users…? Well, Wordpress is #1 as far as I am concerned and free so that makes it public and beloved.

I used to work in software support. Beautiful job, beautiful people…and someone said that people will forgive buggy software…the public understands perfection ins software isn’t realistic. What people will NOT FORGIVE and what people WILL remember, is the kind of support they receive WHEN the software goes buggy.

That memory’s been rining in my head since Technorati’s seemingly begun turning with a cold shoulder.

September 18 Update: Please please please keep in mind friends that as I share my experience I want that to no way detract from yours - as mine could seemingly change at any moment.

As of my last posting before this date, Technorati did index it.

Still have heard nothing back from tech support and perhaps it was on my end. Let me share with you what I did discover that was “wrong” with my site. I am trying to share this in hopes that if we can share what it was we did “incorrectly” we can help each other. This worked for me and given that T. did not respond I don’t know if it was what I did that made a difference. …and for all I know they could stop picking me up again tomorrow. :)

I use feedburner for my feeds. As you may see, my articles are quite lengthy as it’s not really “a blog” and so hence, with Feedburner picking up all content from my posts it had grown to an unacceptable size for Feedburner.

When I altered Feedburner to just pick up the last ten posts for example, it was under the size limit Feedburner has imposed. Success! My feeds were now updated and then Technorati picked up my last post. Coincidence? I don’t know. But for you Feedburner clients, it may be worth considering.

Much love,
Samsara

PS. If you tweak your Feedburner and have success with Technorati, could you let us know?

I ended up losing most of my stuff when I contacted their support. Now I have like 6 of my most recents. THAT is annoying.