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If you want to drive up some volume to your blog, using Technorati tags is a great way to do it. Bean asked me how I went about it, so this is for his benefit (and anyone else who may be interested).

First, you need to register your blog at Technorati. Once you have done so, you need to prove that it is your blog. To do they, they give you a little snippet of javascript code that you need to embed in your blog so that it can scan and verify you are indeed related to that blog.

After you get registered and verified, you can tag your posts so they show up under that particular tag on Technorati. To do that, you simply add a URL to that particular tag somewhere in your post. For example, at the bottom of this post, I’ll have a couple of tags with links to particular topics I think are of interest. There are no
bad tags, per se. Any tag you can create will link to a list of blogs that anyone else has tagged with that same topic.

Periodically, Technorati will scan your blog and update its listing based on the tags you’ve posted.

You can also search for related topics based on the tags you’ve done at Technorati.

Hope that helps, Beanjermin.

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