Fun with Technorati
I’m playing around a bit with Technorati, and to that end I decided to ‘claim’ apocryph.org. To do so, you must prove you control the site you are claiming by posting a snippet of code as instructed. I hard-coded the snippet into my custom Drupal theme; A block might be more effective, but I’m just playing now and want something expedient.
In any case, I settled on the following PHP code in page.tpl.php:
<?php if ($is_front): ?>
script type="text/javascript" src="http://embed.technorati.com/embed/38e4kpnki6.js"> </script>
<?php endif; ?>
This way the snippet only appears on the front page.
After the change, I ‘pinged’ Technorati using the web form in which the claim codes were provided. This notifies the Technorati crawler of a change in my blog, and prompts it to come back and crawl it again (or in this case, for the first time). It’s still pending, so I don’t know if my change worked or not.
Anyway, I’m not so interested in getting apocryph content on Technorati, as I am playing with their API .
UPDATE: The crawler apparently approved my code snippet, as my claim to apocryph.org has been confirmed. 0 links!? Wow, I guess I really need to put myself out there more…
Tags: apocryph, drupal, Migrated from Drupal, technorati