Quick Claim
The fine folks at Technorati have made it
easier for users of Blogware-based
blogs to claim their blogs. They’ve incorporated a new system, Quick
Claim, which is the fastest way for a blog owner to claim a blog in
Technorati.
Before Quick Claim, claiming a blog in Technorati required going to the
Technorati site, specifying which blog you want to claim, copying some
claim code, pasting it into the template of your blog and then waiting
for the Technorati servers to scan your blog for the claim code. The
claim code was a way of establishing that you were truly the owner of
the blog — otherwise people would be claiming ownership of the Top
100.
Quick Claim lets you claim a blog quickly: after specifying the blog
you want to claim, you provide the login information for your blog.
Technorati then communicates with your blogging software and confirms
that you own the blog.
Claiming Your Blogware Blog Using Quick Claim
Here are the steps involved:
1. Log into Technorati using your Technorati login
credentials.
Go to the Technorati site, www.technorati.com:
If you have a Technorati account, you can either click the “Sign In”
button at the upper right-hand corner of their main page or go
directly to their Member Sign In
page.
If you don’t have a Technorati account, you can sign up for one — it’s
free — at their Member Sign-Up
page.
2. Click the “Claim Blog” link.
You should see the “Claim Blog” link about halfway down the page. Click
on it to go to the “Claim
Blog” page.
If you don’t see the “Claim Blog” link, look for the “Claim Weblogs”
tab naer the top of the page.
3. Enter the URL of the weblog you want to claim.
Enter the URL of the blog you want to claim in the “Claim a Weblog”
form. You don’t have to include the “http://” part.
The screenshot below is from an actual claim I’m making. It’s for IndieGameDev, Tucows’ new blog for
independent game developers, and yes, it’s a Blogware blog.
4. Enter your Blogware credentials.
You will be taken to a page where you will be given a number of options
for claiming your weblog. The option at the top will be the “Quick
Claim” option. To Quick Claim your blog, enter your Blogware username
and password into the fields provided in the “Quick Claim Your Weblog”
form and then click the “Quick Claim this weblog” button.
5. Wait for Technorati to Confirm That You Own the Blog…and
That’s It!
You will have a short wait while Technorati contacts the Blogware
servers and confirms that you own the blog. Once confirmed, you should
see a message like the one below:
If you follow the “Claimed Weblogs” link shown above, you’ll see a list
of all the weblogs you’ve claimed. It will include the weblog you just
claimed:
Quick Claim is possible thanks to an XML document format called RSD (Really Simple Discoverability), and I cover that in the more technical version of this entry, which appears in my tech blog, The Farm.
