Comments on: Link Juice from Technorati? No!

By: Utah Internet Marketing :: Social Media Optimization :: eBay Selling Tip

Utah Internet Marketing :: Social Media Optimization :: eBay Selling Tip — Sat, 19 May 2007 18:50:50 +0000

Technorati and the "nofollow” tag

Technorati is a great place to get some inbound traffic–I get quite a bit considering I always ping Technorati when I create a new post. I did, however, learn something new this evening that I wasn’t previously aware of.
I had previously t…

By: Jim Westergren

Jim Westergren — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:34:32 +0000

rel=”tag” is the what you need to have on your links or tags to have them show up as tags in Technorati.

By: Roger Kondrat

Roger Kondrat — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:59:19 +0000

Hi for the stupid can you explain/elaborate this a bit more?
rel=”tag” = I am just not following.

Cheers

By: Jim Westergren

Jim Westergren — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:47:53 +0000

So, Technorati’s enjoying a busload of one way links which aren’t meant to be citations or “votes.” They’re TAGS..but apparently Google doesn’t get that (as of yet).

Exactly, perhaps they change that.

By: Halfdeck

Halfdeck — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 06:12:43 +0000

Yeah, I noticed this a while ago, and tried a few alternatives, like tagging with rel=”nofollow tag”, or rel=”nofollow” rel=”tag” but technorati’s parser (the spider that parses your post HTML right after they receive your ping) seems to ignore the tag unless I stick to rel=”tag”.

So, Technorati’s enjoying a busload of one way links which aren’t meant to be citations or “votes.” They’re TAGS..but apparently Google doesn’t get that (as of yet).