Technorati is the leading site when it comes to blogs and having your link on Technorati helps you to get more visitors to your blog. Technorati also has a blog search engine and it is used by a lot of people. The more people that subscribe and link to your blog the higher your Technorati ranking will be. To get a ranking you have to claim your blog. You need to get a free account and register with Technorati before you can start claiming your blog. Once logged in, go to Blogs | My Blogs.

At the right hand side of that screen you will see a link that says Claim a new blog, click on it to start the process. First, fill in your Blog's URL, and then click on Start Claim. Technorati will then check that it can find your URL, which should not be a problem. After the check you will get a link that you have to copy and paste into your site. If you follow the instructions on the screen you cannot go wrong.

I have copied the link into the RSS Feed module, since that is already Custom HTML. If you look at your site now you will see a small line that says Technorati profile. Once you see that (you might need to clear your cache first) you can click on the Complete Claim button on the Technorati screen.

If the claim is successful, you can fill in the screen that follows and add some extra information about your blog. Also make sure that you add some of your keywords in the Tags listing. You can now remove the claim line from your site and put a Technorati favorite link into the RSS Feed module if you like. As this is the first time that Technorati is looking at your site, it might be a good idea to use the ping service that you will see if you go back to the My Blogs page.

After the initial ping you don't have to do that anymore as FeedBurner will ping it for you when you write a new post. If you missed something or did not get your description and tags in place, you can edit this later. Just go to your Technorati account and choose the Claimed Blogs tab. There you will find a listing of all your blogs and you can choose the Edit Settings option.

Once you click on that button a new screen will open. You can then correct, change, and add information and Tags.