Troubles with Technorati and Feedburner
Posted on March 31st, 2008 by GrandmasterB under Rambling OnIn the past few days I have noticed that both Technorati and Feedburner are not updating properly. For example, I know that I have more than 2 subscribers to my RSS feed. I even subscribed via Google Reader to see if it would update; alas…it did not. I have searched the Feedburner forums high and low for a solution to the problem and found nothing.
In regards to Technorati, for some reason the site hasn’t pinged in 3 days and the last post that it shows is from March 27th. I have tried to ping directly from the website, and even added the ping url (http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping) to Wordpress. Neither seems to be working, and I’m beginning to get a tad frustrated. I have checked the instructions for adding the URL to Wordpress twice and I believe it’s setup correctly under Settings > Writing > Update services I have the following URLs (separated by line breaks):
- http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
- http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
I’m 99.9% sure everything is accurate, but you never know about that 0.1%. If any of you have any tips or recommendations I am all ears (on either problem I’m having). I thank you in advance for your help.
~ GrandmasterB
April 1st, 2008 at 6:41 am
It appears that the issue with Feedburner, may be a timing thing. I now show 3 readers…it could be that my math is off or that it doesn’t update in real time. Still no idea about Technorati though.
April 1st, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Feedburner doesn’t update in real time, nor is it actually the number of people who subscribe to your blog - it’s the number of people who are “active” subscribers. My subscriber count goes up and down a fair bit and it’s not necessarily because people are unsubscribing. Usually it’s just that someone didn’t open the feed that day. It updates daily.
Technorati can have glitches too - if it isn’t updating, try again the next day. I don’t use WordPress and I don’t have pings built into my blogging software, but I only had to ping Technorati a few times for it to start checking my site automatically.
You might be interested in my general guide to online statistics: http://www.benbarden.com/view.php/article/951/a-general-guide-to-online-statistics
April 1st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Thanks for the tip Ben…I’ll give that a look. The Technorati thing is irritating, because I’ve manually pinged them several times with no luck. I finally sent a support email to find out what is going on. Hopefully, I’ll receive an answer back soon.
April 7th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
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