So now that you’ve been blogging for awhile, you might be wondering just how big the blogosphere is. Well, Technorati, the leading search tool and authority for blogs, stated in it’s last “State of the Blogosphere” report (April 2007) that it was tracking over 70 million weblogs, with 120,000 new weblogs being created each day. Which equals a rate of 1.4 blogs created every second of every day.
Yes, these numbers are astounding, but as you’ve already seen for yourselves, blogging is so easy that these publishing tools are being taken advantage of by almost every industry, including libraries.
So how does a person get their blog listed as part of the blogosphere and how can you tag your posts with keywords to make them more findable through a Technorati search? If you want to join the party and have your blog officially listed on Technorati and also take advantage of the watchlist and other features, you’ll need to claim your blog. As for tagging posts with Technorati tags? In many cases, you don’t need to do anything other than use categories for your posts. Just make sure you are publishing RSS/Atom feeds and your categories will be read as tags. If your blogging software does not support categories, you will need to add a special link in the body of your post.
Be sure to check out the Technorati user tips and Technorati widgets.
Discovery Resources:
Discovery exercises:
1. Explore popular blogs, searches and tags.
2. Create a blog post about your discoveries on this site.
Optional: Set up a Technorati account and claim your blog! And then create a watchlist.
