TECHNORATI SLOW LATELY?
I was going to start a rant about how long it's taking for http://www.technorati.com to update my pings and my blog.

I did some checking on my blog and realized that I had missed two things lately as I've been reformatting my site:
1) My RSS.xml was slightly broken and wasn't showing properly. I got a book on XML and then quickly fixed the wrong formatting of my blog.
2) After doing a bunch of work on my site, I must have dropped my javascript link that technorati provides.

Even though I was pinging technorati like crazy, these were two major problems that I needed to solve before they're going to index me.

I am currently at
URL: http://www.express-marketing.com/blog.html
Updated: 185 days ago

I will keep looking for errors that I've caused and report back.

I noticed that ProBlogger.net was having the same problem. It appears that he's fixed his problem as his blog is getting nicely updated.

UPDATE: I just read on Technorati Help the following:
It looks like my blog is updating to you, but my posts aren't appearing correctly. How can I fix this?

The spiders that are picking up your posts might be having trouble parsing the data in your blog and identifying your posts. You can add additional code to your blog to better identify your individual posts by adding permalinks and rel="bookmark" to your post titles. For example, add the rel="bookmark" and permalink code so it looks more like:
POST_TITLE

Making these changes will also help your visitors subscribe to your blog and find the permanent location of your blog posts. You can refer to our Publishers Guide for more information.

I'm going to try rel="bookmark" and see how it works.

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