Wordpress, Atom, RSS, and no Technorati tags

Posted April 3, 2006 * Comments(2)

Looks like Technorati hasn’t been picking up the tags for my posts for some time. I’m trying to figure out why. The Technorati bot still visits right after I post:

"GET /say HTTP/1.0" 301 347 "-" "Technoratibot/0.7"
"GET /say/ HTTP/1.0" 200 33132 "-" "Technoratibot/0.7"
"GET /say/index.php/feed/ HTTP/1.0" 200 19817 "-" "Technoratibot/0.7"

I use Jerome’s Keyword Plugin, which seems to be functioning – my posts are tagged within my blog.

I think what’s going on is that Technoratio is only picking up my RSS 2.0 feed, which, best I can tell, doesn’t contain any tag information. My Atom feed has the tag information in it.

So, is the RSS 2.0 feed supposed to have the tag info in it? Or, can I get Technorati to pick up my Atom feed?

2 Comments so far

  1. Jake on April 28th, 2006

    Have you figured out this one yet? I am having the same problem with my site at http://www.jakelowen.com

  2. Parand Darugar on April 28th, 2006

    It’s either the case that the tags are no longer getting inserted into the RSS feed (as opposed to the atom feed), or that with wordpress 2.0 Technorati only checks the RSS feed where before (with WP 1.5) it also checked the atom feed. In short, the tags are there in the atom feed, but looks like they’re not there in the rss feed.

    Anyway, haven’t figured it out yet. For now, I create new categories for each tag and later delete the categories. Ugly, but haven’t had a chance to figure out a real solution yet…

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