Technorati Tags site search
I left a comment on Phil Bradley’s post on Technorati Tags, which sparked something from an earlier post on Open Tags.
Technorati Tags are great for exposure but it’s hard to find your post in a tag, as it is at the general tag level and not at a user tag level, that’s why an alternative is to point to your user account at del.icio.us which Technorati will pick up anyway.
A way around this would be if you could do a site search at Technorati Tags.
At the moment you can site search within one blog, what I’m proposing would be like site searching within one category or tag of a blog (Blogdigger can do this, but then Technorati is where everyone looks).
This way you could include Technorati Tags in your blog as usual (still pointing to Technorati Tags), but when looking for a post you could limit the tag to just your site, much easier and quicker to find one of your posts.
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John
Thanks for talking Freshblog up in this context!! Much appreciated. Here’s my thoughts on these services :
I add technorati tags so that my posts are listed in a “current posts about” list. I don’t necessarily expect to get much traffic to older posts that way, but at least my stuff is out there & visible on technorati’s front page for that tag for a while. The del.icio.us component of these tags is the part that I’m relying on for navigation, retrieval &c.
Your request for a search within tags at technorati (in addition to the “search within sites” recently added) is a great idea that would increase the power of the tool a great deal!!
Comment by John — October 21, 2005 @ 5:01 pm
Your blog engine should already do that. Why would you ask a remote service to search in your blog ?
For instance, Viabloga does that for years…
Comment by Stéphane LEE — October 23, 2005 @ 4:45 pm
Stephane,
I understand that I don’t need to point to any service at all, as Wordpress has a plug-in where you can use tags instead of or as well as using categories…I would love to implement this but I’m at the mercy of my blog host (I have to wait for them to make it a plug-in that I can use)…if this was the case I would just use local tags, and Technorati would hopefully pick them up like it does for blog categories, this way I get a bit of exposure.
The reason to use del.icio.us is that it creates a title index for my posts, if I browse my blog categories in my blog you have to scroll full-text.
Also I don’t mind the bonus exposure to the del.icio.us audience.
Comment by Johnt — October 24, 2005 @ 1:51 am
OK John, now I understand.
But it is really a blog engine problem, and I guess Wordpress should have tags as a core feature.
By the way, what do you think of Guten Tag ?
Comment by Stéphane LEE — October 24, 2005 @ 7:35 am
Stephane
It’s not a blog engine problem, it’s just convenient when you can use blog engines to do stuff that your blogging platform can’t do
I did a brief post on Guten tag a little while ago
http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/09/27/guten-tag-does-meta-tag-search/
Comment by Johnt — October 24, 2005 @ 8:11 am
Yes please, that would make my Blogger Category attempt alot more accurate. It is now based on a freetext search that is much to loose to really be a category listing of my blog, so please add this. Technorati already has rss output of searches, just not when limiting to a sertain blog. Fire that on up tonight and make me a happy blogger.
Comment by Morten Skogly — October 24, 2005 @ 10:51 pm