I have been attempting to grow the traffic on this site since I first started blogging.
I have concentrated a lot on the magical world of search engine optimisation and found this to be a bit of a “dark art” that is incomprehensible to most, although having an SEO plugin for wordpress seems to be helping, expect a post on that soon (when I actully know more about it).
Technorati - what is it?
As for other sites for social media; Digg is widely regarded as the grand-daddy of all of them and then there is StumbleUpon, which pretty much does exactly what it says on the tin.
But I was quite interested in Technorati, it is completely blog focused and seemed to have more “things” than I have seen on the other sites.
So off I went to find out more. Technorati states that:
Technorati was founded to help bloggers succeed by collecting, highlighting, and distributing the global online conversation. Founded as the first blog search engine, Technorati has expanded to a full service media company providing services to the blogs and social media sites and connecting them with advertisers who want to join the conversation, and whose online properties introduce blog content to millions of consumers.
So I am now signed up, have entered all my information and you can now find my profile here 
The steps for your own profile are reasonably simple: creating your own profile, creating your blog profile, adding a description (250 characters max) and adding keywords. Nice and easy so far.
Back to my profile page after the set up and I have an authority of 0 (zero). hmmm. Next up – how on earth to increase this rating.
Well that my dear readers wil come in another post. As I am still actually finding this out. See, I told you that this blog was indeed “live”.
I have an idea of how to work Technorati but I really need to investigate.
