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Update: I'm inserting this text at the top of the post so Technorati can see it. This is to claim "my blog" here: Technorati Profile
I think that, given the incredible activity on BlogHer these past few weeks, the answer is undoubtedly "yes." (As I write this, there are 1046 members, 2737 posts and 1805 links added to the blogroll [with over 100 more pending approval]).
But I have to wonder about Technorati and their inability (or unwillingness?) to track BlogHer. What prompted me to write this is that, as I was adding BlogHer to my Technorati faves list, I saw that Technorati did not have any up-to-date info on BlogHer.
I manually pinged Technorati but after some 20 minutes now, still no change.
(And this isn't nearly as bad as seeing our business site listed as not having been updated in 186 days! Granted, we don't blog there every day ... it's been a few weeks now ... but the last posts were earlier this month! Anyway....)
Some might ask: Why not say Technorati schmechnorati! and be done with it? Do we all need the A-list mentality, as Jory asks? Is mobilejones right? Does Technorati even matter in this MySpace world?
At this point, I have to laugh at myself, because I noticed all this while participating in Technorati's latest popularity measure -- which is very undemocratic, tends to mainstream traffic, and generally rewards the already-successful. And here I was excitedly playing along! (Aren't I the disruptive little blogger now?)
Still, when the question remains, "Where are all the women bloggers?" -- the best answer is right here, on BlogHer, in the blogs written by these amazing contributing editors, and in the blogrolls. Of course, list obsessions are a big deal for some bloggers -- and was a topic in last year's conference. And so, by the way, was Technorati's apparent blindness to women's blogs in general. Yet, as Charlene Li noted last year, people pay attention to lists. Maybe we shouldn't sneeze at them.
Subverting the mainstream is part of the disruptive nature of the long tail -- and the Cluetrain will win out, in the end. But part of "success" -- which, in this case, we can consider being noticed -- comes from gaming the system, and while we may pooh-pooh such gimmicks and tactics when it comes to our own blogs, it behooves us to do the little things that can add up to a slightly improved collective visibility. (And I know, we want to get the pretty buttons going, too! Soon!)
So here's a link which adds BlogHer to your faves list (if you are registered there):
Maybe if enough people do this, the Technorati boys can't help but notice that there's a living, breathing website here. (Will this post change things, as public pleading did for Alexandra?)
(ps - And no judgments, please, on my other faves. I was just getting started when I saw what it said about BlogHer.)
Update March 1, 6:43 a.m. PST:
Reading my post in the light of day, I see that it comes off much snarkier than I had intended. I did not mean to imply dark or nefarious reasons for the slow tracking, and really wanted to plug Technorati's new faves list as a way to promote BlogHer.
As mobilejones notes in a comment below, BlogHer is being tracked very well by other search engines and trackers. So perhaps I'm being unfair to Technorati in the title. Still, they have the brand recognition, so we -- I -- want to figure this problem out.
The BlogHer listing is now only slightly out of date. This could be because of my manual pinging of Technorati last night -- perhaps there's a couple-hour delay these days. (Alas, manual pinging has done nothing for the plight of the pingVision site.) But with a site as busy as ours here, manual pinging is not an optimal solution.
For the geek-minded reading this, this site automatically pings Technorati with every update, but does so through ping-O-matic. In an email, another web developer wrote me suggesting that perhaps the problem is with ping-O-matic. I don't know, but I will be trying to contact both today.
Update March 1, 4:03 p.m. PST:
Earlier today, I heard back from Technorati:
I've taken a look
