We’ve made some long overdue changes and improvements to blog claiming.
The rebuild is complete and blog claiming is up and running again on Technorati.com. Why did we put you all through this? Unfortunately, we had to: the old blog claim system was built on the search technology that we rebuilt in 2009. So, a full rebuild of blog claming became necessary as well.
During the rebuilding, we know you experienced major delays in the processing of your blog claims. We're sorry we were not able to respond to each of you personally. None of your claims were lost during the rebuilding process and we are working through the backlog now. We’re hearing from many of you on Get Satisfaction that this is improving and your claims are being processed.
We hope you find the new claim process is smoother and easier to understand. As one final defense against spam blogs, we have also implemented a manual review. Going forward, you may see that your claims take a couple of days to process, rather than minutes this took pre-rebuild.
The rebuild is complete and blog claiming is up and running again on Technorati.com. Why did we put you all through this? Unfortunately, we had to: the old blog claim system was built on the search technology that we rebuilt in 2009. So, a full rebuild of blog claming became necessary as well.
During the rebuilding, we know you experienced major delays in the processing of your blog claims. We're sorry we were not able to respond to each of you personally. None of your claims were lost during the rebuilding process and we are working through the backlog now. We’re hearing from many of you on Get Satisfaction that this is improving and your claims are being processed.
We hope you find the new claim process is smoother and easier to understand. As one final defense against spam blogs, we have also implemented a manual review. Going forward, you may see that your claims take a couple of days to process, rather than minutes this took pre-rebuild.
Wow, I have heard and read so much about Technorati! It was a rude awakening to try to claim my blog... and then even more disheartening to go to the support forum to ask a question about it and see how difficult it is for people to get help. This is the new and improved version? Convoluted navigation? Unclear directions, if not complete lack of directions in key places? Well, maybe people will be able to find my site on Technorati in 2011. I'm sorry to sound so harsh, but I'm pretty underwhelmed by the technical expertise of Technorati right now.
Posted by: Belle Isle | 01/07/2010 at 12:10 AM
Hi, i added my blog to technorati a few weeks ago and i have returned to find my blog had been crawled and found the claim token, and my claim is now waiting for review.
How do i review my claim? sorry but it's not that clear how to do this
Posted by: photo keyring | 01/07/2010 at 07:00 AM
The review is on our side now. There's nothing you need to do except wait. It's going to take a while longer, since we're still working through the backlog of blog claims right now.
Posted by: Jen McLean | 01/07/2010 at 03:03 PM
ok, thanks for the info
you don't have any info on how i ping back my blog posts to technorati do you? i'm finding the concept difficult to grasp.
any help appreciatted
photo keyring planet
Posted by: photo keyring | 01/07/2010 at 04:40 PM
Hi,
It's real nice to hear something like that from Technorati. At least, there's hope now.
My Blog http://antivirustech.com was crawled on Nov 25 and the claim token was successfully found. The other day, in "Blog claiming taking forever" thread, your employee Phillip wrote that you were working on claims from Nov 24.
Could you please tell me the approximate time it might take you to complete the claim of my blog. I mean, how long might it take you to get from Nov 24 to Nov 25? Is it a few days, a week, a month...?
I would really appreciate your response on this.
Looking forward...
Posted by: Chris | 01/08/2010 at 05:21 AM
Can someone explain the verification process to me? I got my 'verification token' in an email and put it in the body of a blog post. Is that the correct procedure? There is no documentation around on what to do after you get the token.
Thanks,
randyabramson@hotmail.com
Posted by: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=688571785 | 01/09/2010 at 03:41 PM
My 2 blogs, http://xingfu.us and http://mianniu.com are still be processed since Dec 30 2009. When can they be reviewed?
Posted by: Jack | 01/09/2010 at 10:00 PM
is there an apology in there somewhere?
Posted by: sad | 01/09/2010 at 10:14 PM
When you say blog claiming is "fixed"...does that mean that blog claiming will take less than 6 weeks? My blog at http://www.intranetexperience.com is still waiting review from 11/25/09. Can you clarify what "fixed" means?
Sean
Posted by: Sean R. Nicholson | 01/10/2010 at 03:06 PM
It could take us as long as three weeks to move through the backlog of blog claims. After that, a blog claim will take no more than 24 hours to process.
Posted by: Jennifer McLean | 01/11/2010 at 03:49 PM