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Technorati no more like me
So I probably did a silly thing. Well in fact I think that the problem was that I did nothing for too long. I used to have this blog registered with Technorati in order to increase visbility. That was years ago. It didn’t seem to do much but that was more to do with the infrequency of my blogging I suspect. As I have got older I have become more lazy in this respect.
Anyway, it seems that Technorati have removed my blog. The URL has apparently been flagged in their systems. Why does this happen? A quick search on their site will tell you:
Q: Getting the “This URL has been flagged by our systems” message immediately?
A: If the system will not allow the blog claim to go further than the first step, then your blog has been flagged for review.
In this case, please submit a support ticket from our Support Contact Form with Support Type “Claiming” and Concerning “I cannot claim my blog, it gives me an error message immediately” so that we may be able to review your blog.
A: Check that you are attempting to claim a blog.
Technorati does not support claiming a feed Please claim the URL of the blog the feed is associated to.
Technorati does not support claiming a static webpage. Example: If you are attempting to claim a front page that contains a collection of blog, you will need to claim each blog individually.
Note that a blog is indicated by:
- Posts listed in historical chronological order
- Permalinks for each post
- Original Content
- Posts structured with date, title, body, and footer that includes author and usually comments
Thanks for the helpful description of a blog BTW, that will help me in the future.
I have been updating the site albeit in a lazy fashion via the superb Twitter Tools plug in from Alex King. I post to Twitter and then once a week Twitter Tools bundles them all up into one weekly post of stuff that I have been doing that week. It’s mostly gibberish but it is (mostly) original gibberish. However, I suspect that it may be this that is causing the problem. I have written to Technorati to ask them why my blog is under review. My other site http//:thecontrast.net is listed even though it is not technically a blog (I’ll probably get that one withdrawn too now). Strange, days, indeed.
The good thing about it is that it has prompted me to write a 500 word blog post about the happening. I’m sure if only more things happened to me then I would write more. I’ll keep you updated on the progress. I’m interested to see how it turns out.
Follow me on Twitter, they don’t mind my nonsense.
Edit: A few hours later and Technorati support get back to me (via this post would you believe – see below). The problem is now fixed and I know that at least one real person has read my blog today.
Technorati Profile
Hello! Technorati Support here.. saw your twitter on Technorati and found your post. I took a look at your blog and it looks like it was indeed flagged for review. Because we see a lot a spam coming in, we put rules into place that flag sites that exhibit “spammy” behavior such as using the same adsense ID across multiple blogs. Your blog fell into this case. I’ve reviewed your blog and have made the adjustments so that they should now appear in searches and are indexed for their most recent posts. Thanks!
Hi Marc
Been a LONG time!
Glad to see you got this problem sorted and fantastic personal support from Technorati.
I think the problem well may have been the fact that it found the automated stuff on Twitter before it did on your blog so you may well be right in assuming that it was the “non-original content” side of things.
Keep in touch via Facebook.
David
Ha ha! It’s Decksy Dave… I hope you are well. I saw you on FB. I’ll shoot you a message via via
For the record. The problem according to Janice from Tecnorati was more to do with the fact that I use the same Adsense code for both this site and http://thecontrast.net . A lot for trouble all the income it brings in. 
