slow technorati indexing considered harmful

The theory behind the Technorati taggregation is great: see all posts with a tag on one page, aggregated from the blogosphere, Flickr, Furl and delicious.

The reality is that it is subject to the whims of Technorati indexing, which means that if Technorati indexes your site a lot, you end up looking like a taghog, while if Technorati doesn't pick up your site, it looks like you're excluded.

For example right now Technorati tag sla2005 shows loads of my posts, but none of the good new posts from the SLA PAM Division blog.  There are similar problems with BlogDigger, which does not appear to have the DPAM blog in its index.

I guess this is one of the risks you're always stuck with when relying on third-party tools outside of your control.

In theory, if you ping Technorati, it's supposed to pick up your new postings in its next indexing sweep.

Until there's some more reliable way of getting tagged postings indexed quickly and reliably, I can see there's going to be a bit of taggravation.

Comments

[Greg]

Dang, I wish I had come up with the term "taggravation" during the cil2005 debacle. It even sounds like my kind of neologism.

[Christina Pikas]

oops. You might have to actually claim a blog to have it really show up. In any case, I just claimed the dpam blog so hopefully it will move up.

[Russell]

Technorati will report new links to my site, but won't update the number of links it found.

That's Taggravating.

[Lucas]

I've been taggins for a few weeks now and I don't think I've ever had technorati take longer than maybe a day to index. (I did have some trouble, for a time, but I think that had to do with ping-o-matic moreso than technorati)
I've been checking, and most of the time it updates within 20 minutes or so. I think it's been a little funky since the new site design came out of beta yesterday. I only wish the technorati site itself would go faster... I shouldn't have to wait 30 seconds for a search.

[Zataod]

I've been trying for weeks to get Technorati to index my site, without any luck, or any response to my e-mails.