Quadrant IV

Yep, Technorati Part II:

I’ve investigated a little further regarding my problems with Technorati pings, and perhaps it is my lack of tags.  I have found contradictory information on the subject of tagging; some sites suggest that your categories are fine, and others say that tagging is essential for getting picked up.  Since I haven’t been tagging my posts on either this blog or my old wordpress.com blog, perhaps this is to blame.  Worth a shot, anyway.

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For a while now, Technorati and I haven’t been seeing eye to eye. I’ll post something, ping Technorati from both the inbuilt WordPress ping system as well as a manual ping via Technorati’s page, and Technorati will completely ignore me. Sometimes the post shows up hours later, and sometimes it takes days. This also used to happen to a wordpress.com blog I had.

Oh Technorati, why hath thou forsaken me?

/random gripe

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After a dramatic night last night, I managed to get both my blogs upgraded to 2.1 Ella. The results so far? Pretty seemless actually. The upgrade went without a hitch (if you don’t include my woefully slow upload speeds making it seem like it went all night) and I really am liking the ability to have a page as the first thing you see. On this though, I found it wasn’t terribly intuitive when it came to working out how to put a link to your actual posts on that page, and it didn’t include a ‘posts’ page on the little linkbar. But perhaps this is my naivety or my template or something. I did eventually work out how to put a ‘posts’ link on my page, but the sidebar is alluding me. Perhaps I need to add a page called posts or something.

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