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		<title>Wondering why your recently claimed blog&#8217;s content is not updated at technorati&#8217;s site ?</title>
		<link>http://dienkwik.com/blog/2008/10/28/wondering-why-your-recently-claimed-blogs-content-is-not-updated-at-technoratis-site/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have just recently claimed your blog at technorati&#8217;s site and you&#8217;re not seeing your updates even after numerous pings, it may be that your blog is actually pending a review to ensure that your content is legit and within the good blogging guidelines that technorati expects. Here&#8217;s the FAQ that explains this process: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you have just recently claimed your blog at technorati&#8217;s site and you&#8217;re not seeing your updates even after numerous pings, it may be that your blog is actually <strong>pending a review</strong> to ensure that your content is legit and within the good blogging guidelines that technorati expects.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the FAQ that explains this process<a href="http://support.technorati.com/faq/topic/62">:<span id="more-83"></span> Technorati Support: FAQ</a><a href="http://support.technorati.com/faq/topic/62"> : Most recent posts not indexed AND &#8220;Last Pinged&#8221; date IS NOT updating</a></p>
<p>It is a good idea as well to read through technorati&#8217;s <a href="http://support.technorati.com/guidelines/">Blog Quality Guidelines</a> to understand the expectation of a good blog site from technorati&#8217;s point of view.</p>
<p>Updates:</p>
<p>Oct 28, 2008 &#8211; As I write this, my blog is not updated yet at the technorati&#8217;s site. We&#8217;ll see if this is the problem.</p>
<p>Nov 16, 2008 &#8211; As of today my postings have not appeared on technorati.  Don&#8217;t know if technorati is broken, my blog is considered &#8220;unworthy&#8221;, or the approval process takes forever&#8230;  The wait continues&#8230;</p>
<p>Nov 16, 2008 &#8211; It turns out it&#8217;s not permission/review problem after all.  A very helpful gentleman (you ca see his blog at <a href="http://www.arachna.com/roller/page/spidaman/Weblog">http://www.arachna.com/roller/page/spidaman/Weblog</a>) who apparently works at technorati pointed out several lines of codes which obscures most of my blog posts from the technorati parser, causing my blog posts to not be indexed properly.  Here&#8217;s the offending lines of codes:</p>
<blockquote><p>&lt;!&#8211;[if IE]&gt;\r<br />
&lt;style type=&#8217;text/css&#8217;&gt;\r<br />
&lt;!&#8211;\r<br />
#headerimg{position: absolute;}\r<br />
&#8211;&gt;&lt;/style&gt;\r<br />
&lt;![endif]&#8211;&gt;</p></blockquote>
<p>This code was found in the header.php file located in the themes/esther folder (I am using the esther theme).</p>
<p>Once the code was removed and I pinged my blog from technorati, all my blog posts appear instantly in technorati. All is well now  <img src='http://dienkwik.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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