Get More Traffic - Technorati Tags
March 23rd, 2007 by Court*Update (4/7/2007) Here is a link that you can use to generate code for your tags. You just have to type in the word you want to use for the tag, and it will generate the tag code for you. Tag Generator. If you don’t know what Technorati tags are yet, read on!
If you’re a blogger, you would probably like to increase your traffic. 
If you don’t care, two questions: 1. Why are you a blogger? 2. Why in the world are you at this site?
If you want to increase your blog’s exposure, make sure you’re using Technorati Tags! Technorati is a blog search engine, so getting your blog in their listings can bring you some valuable visitors.
How Technorati Works
Technorati gathers the latest blog entries and organizes them into categories. They have thousands of different categories; your most recent post might fit in quite a few of them. If you play your cards right, you can get your entry into each of the relevant categories. If you get your site into a few extra categories, it will really increase your exposure, and the amount of people that will ultimately find you. Additionally, if other bloggers find your material and like it, they might link to it, getting you even more exposure.
In order to get into the proper Technorati categories, you have to tag your blog entries. At the bottom of the entry you will make some links that point to Technorati. These links are called Technorati Tags. To make this easier to understand, I will place the Technorati Tags for this entry here:
Tags: traffic, blogging, blog, tags, tag, tagging, blog marketing, blog promotion, successful blog
After I publish this article, you’ll be able to find it in each of the above categories in Technorati. (Your blog will automatically alert Technorati that you have a new entry on your site, and Technorati will find your tags, letting them know what categories they should put it in.)
How To Add Technorati Tags To Your Entry/Post/Article
A Technorati Tag is really just a link to the correct page of Technorati. In order to make a Technorati Tag, you will need this code:
If you look closely at the code, you will see the word ’sample’ is in there, twice. This particular code would make a tag for Technorati’s sample category. Let’s say that I wanted to make a tag for the ‘movies’ category. Here’s is the code I would use:
If you look closely to this code, you see that I replaced ’sample’ with ‘movies’, and now ‘movies’ is in there twice. You will replace the word sample with whatever category tag you want to use. If you want to use ten tags, you will need to make ten pieces of code, one for each.
In some cases, you will have a tag with more than one word. In that case, here is the code you will use:
Upon close examination you will discover that I used a + sign in between sample and phrase in the first instance, but used a regular space for the second. If I wanted to make a tag for the ‘cell phones’ category of Technorati, here is the code I would use:
Here is the code that I used to create the tags for this document:
You will notice that after the code for each tag, I typed a comma. This is obviously because I wanted to seperate the tags with commas.When you’re ready to insert your tags, make sure you go into the code view section of your write post page. If you’re using WordPress, you will see either an HTML button directly above the place where you type your post, or you will see a code tab in the same area. When you click these, you will see the code for your post entry. You will paste your tag code at the bottom, that way the tags will appear down there.
If you don’t know which categories to use, you should go to Technorati to do some searching. Search for things related to your topic. If you’re blog post is about money, go to Technorati and search for money. Technorati will suggest related categories like finance, investing, and so on. You can make a tag for each category that is related to what you wrote.
It may be tempting to tag your article with a hundred or so tags that are loosely related to your post. This won’t do you any good at all, Technorati will think you’re tag spamming (you would be tag spamming), and may ban your blog altogether. Most of the time you will use between 2 and ten tags. Each tag needs to be closely related to what your article is about. This will ensure maximum visibility while maintaining your ability to use Technorati.
Using Technorati Tags will help your exposure a lot, especially if you’re a daily poster. Tips for getting the most out of your Tags:
- Post Daily
- Post In The Morning (The morning traffic at Technorati is greater than afternoon and evening traffic. You want your articles to appear at the top of Technorati’s pages while there are tons of people looking at them. If you’re not in the U.S., you should post in the morning, U.S. time. If you can’t post in the morning, you can set your WordPress blog to post your entry in the morning even if you wrote the article in the evening. Look for the time stamp feature on your ‘Write Post’ page)
- Use 2-10 Tags
- Link To Me - Just kidding this won’t help you but it will help me, so you better do it.
Using Technorati Tags will help you a lot, but it’s not the only thing you need to do to promote your blog. For more tips, you should check out these articles: Permalinks, Related Posts Plugin, and Traffic. You should also visit the SEO and Blog Promotion sections of this site.
Happy tagging!
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March 23rd, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Hi There! Thanks for sharing. Good tips.
March 23rd, 2007 at 4:49 pm
You are most welcome, thanks for the comment! Let me know if there’s anything you would like to learn about.
April 3rd, 2007 at 4:59 am
Thanks for inviting me to your site.
you have a quite good content in your blog.
i like your writing.
April 4th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Hi,thanks for the tips.
I am glad that I stumbled upon your blog.
I have been wondering how bloggers put the tags on their blogs.Honestly speaking, I really do not know that the tags are so important.
Thanks again.
I’ll put you in my Internet Gurus’ Money Making Tips for future reference.
April 4th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Welcome Vedis Teh!
Thanks for the honesty! Tags can help quite a bit, I’m still getting traffic from a tag I made almost a month ago!
April 7th, 2007 at 5:45 am
Hey Court,
When it comes to Technorati tags is there an incorrect way of doing it? For instance, if you have a keyword phrase that applies and you find another one that applies well but is very closely related in words, but phrased differently, will that matter? Such as “grants for small business” compared to “small business grants”?
April 7th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Cade,
Very good question! You can and should use them both as some people will search one way and some with search the other way.
May 10th, 2007 at 7:51 am
Hiya
Good tips and the catagorizing stuff.
Very new to blogging here - started a few hours ago!!!!
Rhys
May 11th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
This \’how to add technorati tags\’ was just what I was looking for!
Thanks for even going to the trouble of including the code for us, Court.
Michelle.
May 15th, 2007 at 4:53 am
This seems a lot of work if you have to do this for every post you write. Does it actually generate traffic amounts worth the trouble?
May 20th, 2007 at 4:51 am
[..]Sounds a little tricky, but if you practice it often, I believe the result may be quite rewarding. He has another instructional article on using Technorati Tags to generate traffic, which definitely worths a look at.[..]
May 20th, 2007 at 9:53 am
Technorati tags never worked for me. Its just that some of them with PR provide some google love, thats all. You need to aim some very important keywords and staying on top on competitive keywords is always hard!
May 20th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Technorati tags work the best for me if I publish during the most active times at Technorati. I’ve experimented with it, and that’s why I usually publish between 7 and 9 MDT. Maybe you should give it a shot!
May 26th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Hmm, never thought about that. Maybe its time that I use the timestamp feature of wordpress.
June 2nd, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Another tag gen, this one allows you to input multiple tags at once. Both are good though!
http://www.marketwest.co.uk/tools/index.php
June 5th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
thanks so much for the explanation. i have always know the tag works for our traffics, but no one cares to explain how to put that on. This is very useful.
June 6th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
I’m glad it helped you Jenny, let me know if there’s anything else you need to learn ok?
June 11th, 2007 at 11:27 am
there should be a wordpress plugin to automate this stuff.
June 11th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Actually there is! It’s called the Ultimate Tag Warrior. It’s hard to install but works like a champ.
You can find out about it here:
http://courtneytuttle.com/2007/05/10/ultimate-tag-warrior-wordpress-plugin-reviewed/
June 16th, 2007 at 5:45 am
I was looking for “How to use Technorati tags” ….Thanks for the info, I’m implementing on my site.
June 19th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
I just tried this out on my blog that uses the smart update pinger plugin, and pings are not generated when I publish a timestamped post.
I’ll have to wait until tonight to verify if a ping happens when the post is finally shown.
June 29th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
I’m noob in the blogosphere. Just starting up my own blog and these Technorati tags seem to come in handy. Thanks for this post.
July 18th, 2007 at 4:57 am
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July 19th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
there is a plugin that helps with the technorati tagging now too.
August 4th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
I am totally impressed with the way you explain things for the common blogger.
Marie
August 5th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
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August 11th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
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August 14th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Comprehensive blogging you do. I love your blog too much. If possible, just clean your blog from “keyword stuff” comments. It will also help your blog too.
August 30th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
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September 6th, 2007 at 11:37 am
I just redid all of my technorati tags and my traffic is already almost double as much, considering I usually only got about 20 visitors a day, but hey, the more the merrier! Thanks Court!
September 7th, 2007 at 3:39 am
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October 7th, 2007 at 4:35 am
Hello!
Thanks for your tips! I will apply it immediately to my blog. Since I “discovered” your blog, it’s the first I visit to find answers to what I need to do in an easy way! Go on!
October 12th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Once again you have some valuable info here I had never seen or heard anywhere online..Question, even though it’s taboo to use Blogger and host your blog on a free site, would this “tagging” trick be something you could effectively use on a .blogspot.com blog? Thanks!
October 23rd, 2007 at 7:46 am
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November 27th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Thanks for the tips - question is it better, or does it matter, if you put the Technorati tags in the body of the post or at the end in a list like you have done?
Chris
December 11th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Great post. Some hard concrete information there… what about making people rise up in the technorati listings?
January 6th, 2008 at 2:57 am
Thanks for the excellent information. I was wondering however isnt there any wordpress plugin that does the same job?
February 9th, 2008 at 4:56 am
I use the tag engine on my Wordpress blog, so can someone explain to me whether these Technorati Tags should be in addition to these? Is there a way to ‘hide’ them so that I am not doubling up?
February 16th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
[…] Use Technorati tags. Getting into more categories in Technorati will get you a lot more exposure, which means more traffic. If you don’t know what Technorati tags are, read Court’s post. […]
February 16th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Do you need to display the tags at the end of the post, or can they remain invisible and still be effective. In other words, can the tag be built like this:
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I’m thinking it keeps the blog layout neater with out the tags hanging out at the bottom.
February 16th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Ok, so that didn’t work. Let’s try again.
Here’s what I’m thinking (only using correct html code flags )
(a href=”http://technorati.com/tag/sample” rel=”tag”)(/a)
February 23rd, 2008 at 3:37 pm
There are many useful informations in this great article…Thanks!
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March 16th, 2008 at 7:21 am
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March 16th, 2008 at 7:23 am
ups messed up my url
March 25th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Mine is automated. This way I don’t spend too much time…and make mistakes
cheers
April 8th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
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