Technorati is certainly the ubchallenged authority on what's happening in the blogging world right now.

Technorati is basically a blog search engine that is tracking 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. If you are a blogger, Technorati will do wonders in the promotion of your posts if you use it correctly. The blogging phenomenon started well before Technorati did obviously, and its growth was fostered by many people and organizations that brought openness and cooperation to the blogging.
Technorati looks at the tags that have been put on websites by their authors and Technorati Rank is denoted by how close you are from the top as expressed by the total number of blogs that are linking to you .
Tags - Technorati
category names, keywords and other points in blog posts that are mapped with keywords are called Technorati Tags Technorati Tags work on a variety of modes and can vary according to type of content. Yopu can include your post on a Technorati Tag page by including a specific link which will "tag" it. All the words that are enclosed withing 'tags' will be added to the bottom list of [tag]Technorati[/tag] tags at the bottom of the post.
Tags represent an easy and effective way to give more exposure, visibility and relevance to your content by allowing content publishers to attach simple text labels to their articles and posts. Tags adoption has become a phenomenon across the Live Web, and we are seeing a correlative explosive growth at Technorati.
Blogs are conversational in nature, Levy said, and the long tail network that Technorati is assembling will allow brands to be part of that via very targeted advertising. Blogs continue to become more and more viable news and information outlets.
I have always liked Technorati, it has been a great site for keeping track of interesting topics and finding new bloggers.
Technorati tracks what is happening on nearly 100 million blogs. Despite the problems building, improving and scaling a specialty search engine, Technorati is a company built on passion for the Web, for blogs, for individuals and for society at large.

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