IF YOU HAVE A BLOG, YOU NEED TO BE ON TECHNORATI. Period.

                                                                                                     

I believe this is a must. Technorati is the recognized authority on what's going on in the world of weblogs. "We help people search for, surface, and organize bloggers and their daily posts."

A few years ago, Web search was revolutionized by a simple but profound idea — that the relevance of a site can be determined by the number of other sites that link to it, and thus consider it 'important.' In the world of blogs, hyperlinks are even more significant, since bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, which creates the sense of timeliness and connectedness one would have in a conversation.

So Technorati tracks the number of links, and the perceived relevance of blogs, as well as the real-time nature of blogging. Because Technorati automatically receives notification from weblogs as soon as they are updated, it can track the thousands of updates per hour that occur in the blogosphere, and monitor the communities (who's linking to whom) underlying these conversations. And guess what?  Search Engines watch Technorati! And they pick up what they are doing.

So once your blog is up and running, go to Technorati, set up an account, claim your blog and start tagging and getting tagged!