Hmmm.... i see. If that's the case, then it should work.
See ya
On 4/2/06, Andreas Haugstrup <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You have misunderstood. Richard is using the <category> tag in his *feed*
to specify the tag for the blog post. He is not using a link in the blog
post.
- Andreas
On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:49:06 +0200, Charles Iliya Krempeaux
<[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> Hello,
>
> OK, I looked at Richard's source code (which I probably should have done
> right away) and I see the problem.
>
> Now this is something I've argued against over at Microformats.org, but
> Technorati gets the category name from the URL you link to.
>
> Normally, if you had a rel="tag" link URL like:
>
> http://example.com/this/is/it/NewTube
>
> Then your category would be "NewTube". I.e., Technorate looks at the
> last
> "word" (if you want to call it that) in URL.
>
> Richard's link URL (for videobloggingweek2006) is:
>
> http://www.richardshow.com/?cat=7
>
> Which does NOT have videobloggingweek2006 as the last "word". Which is
> the
> problem Technorati is having.
>
> Note, Technorati does this. But I (and others) don't like this and think
> that the word that you are using to make the rel="tag" link should
> matter.
> However (last we discussed this), Technorati doesn't care about that.
> (And
> they don't care about the title attribute either.)
>
>
> See ya
>
> On 4/2/06, Andreas Haugstrup < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Richard was using categories in Wordpress so Technorati is supposed to
>> pick up from his feed (which it did, but Richard was using the tag
>> "video
>> blog week 2006" and not "videobloggingweek2006"). He wasn't using
>> relTag.
>>
>> - Andreas
>>
>> On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:33:34 +0200, Charles Iliya Krempeaux
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > On 4/2/06, Andreas Haugstrup < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:23:02 +0200, Richard Show
>> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > [...]
>> >
>> >
>> >> (when I got to http://www.technorati.com/tag/videobloggingweek2006 it
>> >> > doesn't show anything, even though I did the update/ping thing with
>> my
>> >> > vlog)
>> >>
>> >> You're at <URL:
>> >> http://www.technorati.com/tag/Video%20Blog%20Week%202006 >
>> >> - in other words you need to kill the spaces from the category name.
>> >>
>> >>
>> > There's another important point when doing this tagging.
>> >
>> > In the HTML code that is generated, you need to have rel="tag" in
>> > hyperlink
>> > for your tag.
>> >
>> > So, for example, you'd need something like this:
>> >
>> > <a rel="tag"
>> > href="" http://www.technorati.com/tag/Video%20Blog%20Week%202006
>> > ">...</a>
>> >
>> >
>> > Also, you do NOT have to make your tag links point to Technorati.
>> They
>> > can
>> > point to any site you want. So, for example, instead of using:
>> >
>> > http://www.technorati.com/tag/Video%20Blog%20Week%202006
>> >
>> > You could have used:
>> >
>> > http://example.com/just/some/stuff/Video%20Blog%20Week%202006
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hope that helps.
>> >
>> >
>> > See ya
>> >
>> > --
>> > Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.
>> >
>> > charles @ reptile.ca
>> > supercanadian @ gmail.com
>> >
>> > developer weblog: http://ChangeLog.ca/
>> >
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