A big (belated) shout-out to Technorati!
Specifically to Niall Kennedy and Dave Sifry, both of whom responded personally to my Technorati Tag Problems (redux) post. In fact, Niall responded so quickly that it was almost real-time, like an IM conversation (maybe he sees those Technorati: Search for Niall Kennedy results straight from the database 
).
Niall’s help was invaluable, as it pointed me to an issue I was unaware of, that my tags need to be in the body of the post and can’t be in the meta-data. This information is available on the Technorati help pages, but is 2 links away from the main tagging help page; arguably I never would have spent the time to research it this much without Niall’s information.
That is not to mention the other 2 problems I encountered that were entirely my fault. The first is that I was neglecting to include my tags (which I create with the WordPress Technorati Tags Plugin) in my feed. That’ll make it a little difficult for Technorati to find my tags, I suspect. The second problem that I ran into was that even after dropping my tags in the post body and then into my RSS 2.0 feed, Technorati is not indexing my RSS 2.0 feed. I was only able to discover this by using the developer’s bloginfo query, where I discovered that as far as Technorati is concerned my rss feed is the rss 0.9 feed I publish. It would be nice if I could see that information from my Technorati: Claimed Weblogs page, but I didn’t see any way of doing that. It would also be nice to be able to update the referential data that Technorati has on my blog, but again I didn’t see that option available.
Once again, thanks to both Niall and Dave for their attentiveness. I’m tagging happily now.
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