Fun with Technorati

Technorati Profile

So, I’ve been having a little trouble with Technorati for a while.  Bear in mind that I actually like them just fine, despite their bizarre insistence on Where’s The Fire, but things have been a bit odd lately. I took down the blogs at TiltedWindmill and CDLauryl.com because I couldn’t do three or four blogs at once; I can’t even bear to spend the time to blog every day on ONE blog.  Also, I wanted to turn CDLauryl.com into a completely commercial site, currently just CafePress. Unfortunately, they kept showing up on Technorati anyway, and I couldn’t remove them.  (What’s weirder is that the WP dashboard here insisted on trying to show the backlinks from the old posts that USED to be at CDLauryl.com, but since CDLauryl.com is forwarded to my CP shop, the entries weren’t available, leading to a series of 404 errors on the dashboard) According to their FAQ, removing outdated links is a support request, so I sent in a request for that, back about a month ago.  The autoresponse said I could feel free to send a reminder if I hadn’t heard back in a week, but I figured, what’s the point of that?  They’ll get to it when they get to it, and aggravating them isn’t going to help.  I also couldn’t get this blog to show up at all; they said they adjusted something and it should work now.

We’ll see; the link at the top is the claim code.

Anyway, the funniest part of the whole thing is the email they sent me. They apologized for the delay, citing a backlog in support tickets (something the initial autoreply had mentioned as a possibility), and referred specifically to the domain names I had requested help changing and fixing. They sent it to the right email address, obviously, because I got it.

But they called me Yasser.

Originally published at Chrystalline. You can comment here or there.