Primordial Ooze

I’ve been growing more interested in making sure that my posts are making their way into the blogosphere the way they should. Perhaps I’ll get some more traffic if I at least ping the right sites and weave the right metadata into my posts.

I went to technorati and looked up how the categories in my posts get associated with their tags. The element I was missing was a “rel” attribute with value “tag” on the anchor “a” element for my categories.

If you look at the bottom of one of my posts, you’ll see a list of categories the post was made to, like so:

The old Movable Type macro code to generate this looked like so:

<span class="post-footers">Posted to <MTEntryCategories glue=", ">
<a href="<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>"><$MTCategoryLabel$></a>
</MTEntryCategories> by <$MTEntryAuthorDisplayName$> at <$MTEntryDate format="%X"$></span>

I merely changed this to:

<span class="post-footers">Posted to <MTEntryCategories glue=", ">
<a href="<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>" rel=”tag”><$MTCategoryLabel$></a>
</MTEntryCategories> by <$MTEntryAuthorDisplayName$> at <$MTEntryDate format="%X"$></span>

This should do the trick. This very post should properly post these tags to technorati. We’ll see.