Technorati and the aggregators
A comment on The Ojai Post asked about Technorati.
Technorati is a blog and media aggregator. In other words, they are a central location for finding content, viewing trends and just keeping an eye on what people are blogging, vlogging and talking about. One might also classify them as a Social Bookmarking service.
Over at The Ojai Post, if you have a Technorati account set up, you can click the "Bookmark" image at the bottom of any entry on the home page, and then click the Technorati link in the list of Social Bookmarking services to bookmark that particular entry in your Technorati account. The more people do that for an entry, the more visibility it has. The Technorati homepage aggregates news stories, blog posts and photos by attention, meaning that as web users use Technorati to bookmark stories of interest that they find around the web, it creates more visibility for that story to casual news and blog viewers.
An important way for bloggers to create visibility in the first place is to make sure that one's blog is properly registered with the multitude of blog directories out there. Many of them will visit, or ping, the website on a regular basis, or monitor the site's RSS feed, and automatically update new content into their directory.
Technorati is a blog and media aggregator. In other words, they are a central location for finding content, viewing trends and just keeping an eye on what people are blogging, vlogging and talking about. One might also classify them as a Social Bookmarking service.
Over at The Ojai Post, if you have a Technorati account set up, you can click the "Bookmark" image at the bottom of any entry on the home page, and then click the Technorati link in the list of Social Bookmarking services to bookmark that particular entry in your Technorati account. The more people do that for an entry, the more visibility it has. The Technorati homepage aggregates news stories, blog posts and photos by attention, meaning that as web users use Technorati to bookmark stories of interest that they find around the web, it creates more visibility for that story to casual news and blog viewers.
An important way for bloggers to create visibility in the first place is to make sure that one's blog is properly registered with the multitude of blog directories out there. Many of them will visit, or ping, the website on a regular basis, or monitor the site's RSS feed, and automatically update new content into their directory.
Following are a couple of lists, for any blogger that wants to register their blog in as many places as possible.
Top Rank: RSS - Blog Directories
Search Engine Journal - 20 Essential Blog Directories
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