Using Technorati Tags

This site turned out to be a bust for me. Glad I didn't waste any more time there.

I got the following instructions from ehow, and I think I am going to try it and see how it works.

How to Write and Use Technorati Tags in a Blog

By eHow Internet Editor

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Step 1

Join Technorati via its website by registering and claiming your blog. The act of claiming the blog creates a link from your user name to Technorati. The blog claim process is very simple and offered via a variety of easy-to-follow directions that might depend on the blog platform that you are using.
Step 2

Write Technorati tags into your blog. Do this by either adding relevant text words that relate to your blog or that categorize your blog or by integrating tag links into your text. Some people add a section at the end of the blog called tags and simply list several links. Others integrate tags into their blogs, which can look more streamlined and result in a cleaner looking blog entry.
Step 3

Choose popular and relevant tags to bring visitors to your blog. You can check a tag's popularity on the Technorati home page to see what today's popular tags as well as today's popular searches. Either click on them to see blogs categorized in that category or write your own blog with a tag listed in order to later find your blog entry under the directory for that specific tag.
Step 4

Ping your blog when you finish writing a new entry with tags. Your homepage at Technorati has a tool that will allow a ping, which means that it will notify the directory that you have a new blog entry. It will classify your blog under your associated tags and notify those who have "Favorited" you via that user's homepage.

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then it tells me that the claim process is down, this goes on for a couple days.

Then I get to claim a blog... big woopie.
2 more days and it tells me "Claim is still in progress".

Don't plan on anything happening here very quickly.
maybe this week long signup process they have is to weed out the people who don't really really want it?

starting to see a trend with this site. Will check back tomorrow, maybe the site is just having a bad week.