Soda - Keeping Curious

Something has been bugging me since the creation of this blog that I still, to this day, have not been able to correct. Since this is a blog, and blogs are notorious for being a place to rant, I’d like to step up and offer mine alongside the rest of them.

As Becky already mentioned, we’re being tracked by Technorati. It’s an impressive service, offering the ability to scope out the voice of the world for anything and everything that is currently being hotly discussed. But as you can see by the picture to the right, all is not well.

I thought I could correct this by adding rel=”nofollow” to our bookmark links, how little I knew.

That leads to a whole other issue, what about if comments included spam links that were not really acceptable content for our readers. Would Technorati publish that we were linking to discount meds, mortgage lenders or “adult content”?

So I sent off an email to Technorati in early September and to date have had no response. In the meantime I’ve tried various methods (short of dynamically adding the bookmark links via JavaScript) to get a more appropriate list in Technorati without result.

Anyone out there know of the magic switch to apply that stops Technorati’s blanket assumptions? I’m guessing there isn’t one. And if that is the case Technorati need to get their act together.