I can't seem to get this to work at all. Am I right in thinking that one effect of using this module is that my claimed blog on Technorati should begin to show "tags" under its listing? It doesn't. My technorati table is empty. Yet my site logs say that the cron job is successfully sending a ping to technorati.

My blog uses free tag categories and I have set the Technorati module to use "Drupal categories" as the Technorati tags. I usually post using ecto. So because I am using categories I can't add them remotely. So on most posts I can choose a few that I've already used, so that at the time of posting the netry it has some tags. And then I edit the post in Drupal and add other tags.

What information can I give you to see if we can diagnose what's going on...or not?

Cheers,

Jocok Coats

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jockox3@drupal.org commented
Title: No Tecnorati pings being sent » Let me clarify

I can see in my logs that pings are being sent to Technorati via cron after I make a post. However there's absolutely nothing in the Technorati database table.

I spent time last night looking through the code in technorati.module - I'm crap at PHP but thought I would give it a go. It seems to me that if you are using the Drupal taxonomy mechanism the on insert case does not do anything to the database.

Now maybe something else is preventing technorati, when it analyses my feed, from picking up tags. I would expect my tags to appear on my blog's Technorati page - is that how it's supposed to work? I'm going to try the Atom module on advice from Technorati's help pages which is outside the scope of this, but should the technorati module be doing anything other than initiating a ping?

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kbahey commented
Title: Let me clarify » No Tecnorati pings being sent

Please do not change titles.

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jockox3@drupal.org commented

Okay - well at least I know someone's reading these! Though that wasn't the reason for changing the title - sorry about that.

I've done some more digging around in Technorati's help and I think part of the issue here has been that I was using blog entries rather than stories for a single person site and was trying to tell Technorati that the front page was my blog when in fact it was /blog/user

Anyway, now Technorati appears to be indexing the site but not indexing tags, and in their help it says that a. the tags should be in the body content - which appears fine for RSS but not in Atom but what seems crucial b. that the link you want tagged by Technorati should have a "rel=tag" somewhere in it, and, looking at the RSS feed output it doesn't appear to be doing that.

Do you need a hook in the RSS module or something to insert that rel=tag entry perhaps?

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jockox3@drupal.org commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Well - it seems to have sorted itself out now. And Technorati is picking up tags. So I guess it must all have been down to the issue of where the blog's root was - on /blog/user or just using stories in the root of the site.