Comments on: How does Technorati define what a blog is?

By: lilyruth

lilyruth — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:22:41 +0000

I of all people know about as much as the other people who left their comments here and I know nothing but I was under the impression that if you were added to technorati favorites your blog is suppose to be doing o.k. So this is why I am trying hard to get people to add me to their tech favorites. and by the way King I have a new blog and I want you to please go and add http://dogents.blogspot.com to your technorti favorites because I need those add in order ot join this ad thing I still do not have enough technorati favorites so please add my blog to your favortites I do appreciate your help and visit my blog and let me know through Comment what you think of it? thanks

By: Gary King

Gary King — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:51:39 +0000

Yeah, I guess. I can’t remember how it’s done – it’s been so long.

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:39:24 +0000

Don’t they have to pass a manual review during “blog claiming”?

By: Gary King

Gary King — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:37:54 +0000

Chris, yeah, from what makes the most sense, I would imagine that everything that has the footprint of a major blog platform vendor (WordPress, TypePad, Movable Type, etc.) would pass as a blog by default. WordPress is indeed used as a CMS sometimes, but very, very minimally – in the single digit percentages.

I can’t begin to imagine how much work would have to be done if there was a manual review. Yikes! Although, on the other hand, they could have just manually reviewed the large websites, meaning those that were larger than the largest legit blog, Engadget.

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:34:05 +0000

Found this but it's not much help. I think it has to come down to a manual review unless they can see a particular vendor fingerprint (eg. wordpress) but even then that's not very reliable as many people use wp as a cms ...