Getting Out of Debt: Join the Technorati Train

Technorati is a great way to increase your traffic, exposure and income (advertising revenue). The first time the Technorati train went around, I decided to not participate. I figured I'd wait for it to die down,so that I could revive it! I know, I'm terrible. :)

For some strange reason, technorati doesn't update my pings for this blog. For this reason, I've decided to use one of my other blogs. It's a new freebie site I just started. Here's my new addition: FREEfabStuff!

Anyway, I decided to use the Technorati train I found on a blog called:
ReformatThis
The blog is named after his Web Programming Company that specializes in custom web applications. I like his play on words. His last name is Matthis and it can be found in the URL of his blog's name Reformatthis! Pretty clever huh! His blog has a lot of great information and I wanted to share it with all of you. He creates great php hero cards. (You have to visit the entry to understand!) You have to see them. He hasn't been updating lately because he's had a new addition to the family-his first son. Congratulations! After this little train, I hope he has renewed energy to give us some more entries...

For easy installation of the list:
1. Click on the permanent link to this entry.
2. Next, click on view on your toolbar.
3. Click on source and you should be able to copy and paste all the names with the links. Quick and easy! Be sure to start copying at the asterisks. No one wants duplicate content!

If you are included in this train or are adding your URL to the comments, be sure to take full advantage of every traffic opportunity! Stumble this post, tag it on delicious and digg it!!!!!!!!!


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Here are the rules:

1) Write a short introduction paragraph about what or how you found the list and include a link to the blog that referred you to the list.

2) COPY the Rules and ENTIRE List below and post it to your blog. To avoid duplicate content and increase the amount of keywords your site can accessible for, go ahead and change the titles of the blog. Just don’t change the links of the blog.

3) Take “My New Faves” and move them into the “The Original Faves” list.

4) Add 3 Blogs that you’ve just added to your Technorati Favorites to the “My New Faves” section. Remember to also add the “Fave Me” link next to your new blogs (i.e. http://technorati.com/faves?sub=addfavbtn&add=http://www.yourfavesdomain.com)

5) Add Everyone on this list to your Technorati Favorites List by clicking on “Fave the Site.” Those who want good kharma will fave you back. If not, you will for sure get the benefits of faves from the bloggers who continue this list after you.

My New Faves

Search for Blogging Fave the Site
AProBloggerMom Fave the Site
Stop The Ride! Fave the Site

The Original Faves

FREE fab STUFF - Fave the Site

Bobs [ReformatThis] - Fave the Site

Everyday Weekender - Fave the Site

Armen’s Blog - Fave the Site

Gary Lee - Fave the Site

Dosh Dosh - Fave the Site

Nate Whitehill - Fave the Site

Ms. Danielle - Fave the Site

Jeff Kee - Fave the Site

Scribble on the Wall - Fave the Site

Jimi Morrisons Head - Fave the Site

Jon Lee - Fave the Site

Samanathon - Fave the Site

Eat Drink & Be Merry - Fave the Site

The Man of Silver - Fave the Site

Hannes Johnson - Fave the Site

My Dandelion Patch - Fave the Site

Nathan Drach - Fave the Site

SiteLogic - Fave the Site

Julies Journal - Fave the Site

Stephen Fung - Fave the Site

Ed Lau - Fave the Site

QMusings - Fave the Site

Kelly Cho - Fave the Site

Shawn Knight - Fave the Site

Tyler Ingram - Fave the Site

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Technorati Ping Bug: Two Possible Causes and Solutions

I was reading some blogs when I came across this post by A ProBlogger Mom: Why doesn't Technorati fix it's ping bug? I was having the same problem as were many other bloggers. Technorati wasn't registering my ping through my automatic ping on blogger, their site, manually through their site, from ipings or pingomatic. Soon after I came across a post from Stephen Fung. He was having the same problem and he received an email regarding PayPerPost.com links on his blog. Apparently, they are penalizing bloggers that have payperpost links and or badges. Of course, they didn't say it in those words.

Read the post by Stephen Fung: Technorati Hates PayPerPost? Here's an excerpt of the email they sent him:

It seems that your blog has been flagged for review. I am suspecting that it is due to the Ad and Payperpost links placed in every post. Because of this, your blog will continually be flagged with each indexed post. Please try including the links in your sidebar.

Personally, I got tired of sending Technorati email after email. When I decided to see if others had the same problem, I came across the post above. It was helpful, but didn't solve my problem. I only had the payperpost badge on a few entries here and there. I decided to figure it out by myself. I accidentally came across a solution.

Several months ago, I upgraded to blogger2. I noticed I had problems since that time. I was using ipings and pingomatic to see if the ping registered and noticed a different URL was coming up:
This is my URL:
http://getting-out-of-debt.blogspot.com/
This is what was coming up:
http://getting-out-of-debt.blogspot.com/index.html

So I used the longer version and it registered the ping. It wasn't instant, but it worked.

What are two possible solutions to the Technorati blog update problem?
1. Do not put payperpost badges on every entry. Sprinkle them throughout your blog.
2. Ping your blog with the additional text above.

I hope that this information is useful. I'm not a tech expert, I just found somethig that worked for me. Try it, it may work for you too.

If you try the solution above, leave a comment and let us know about your results...