Tags do not update Technorati

By Marc

Bah – mystery problem occurring just this month.

There’s a whole thread about it in WordPress Support … lots of frustrated users out there.

Only posting this in the vague hope of stumbling on a solution ‘from the masses’ out there… any ideas, please shout!

Thanks!

[UPDATE ABOUT ONE HOUR LATER: Some of the discussion thread emphasises feed validation and W3C XHTML validation -- I've been pushing my stuff through the recommended validators, and found that my posting about Writely caused a phenomenal number of errors... grrrrrrrrrrrr... I've hand-fixed the horrendous artifacts introduced by posting from Writely straight to WordPress (the worst offender was wrapping my technorati tags in smart quotes, which do not do the right thing; others included lots of bogus line breaks, and bad, or rather not valid, img tagging), and will wait to see what happens.]

[UPDATE A FEW DAYS LATER: forgot to mention that the only OTHER invalid W3C XHTML code I found was generated on my behalf by the Structured Blogging plugin that I have been experimenting with (in some unpublished / private entries). So I have disabled that one too. Grrrrrrrr again. Oh, and I deleted that Writely entry for the time being - was getting too much of a hassle manually tweaking the offending HTML. Oh, and I manually re-pinged Technorati. Bah. Still not showing up. Very tedious. Code validates perfectly. 3rd party ping and trackback testers confirm perfectly. No tags showing up on Technorati since 30th March 2006. Bah.]

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