Friday, December 7, 2007

Technorati Manual Ping Flaw

For sometime now, Technorati members have been complaining about their post not getting indexed after manually pinging. The reason for this is that after members manually ping within technorati, they sign out from the "Thanks for the Ping!" page, causing it to refresh and ping again within seconds, resulting in them getting banned.

For you Technorati members who need visuals, here you go:

Example 1. You just manually pinged within Technorati and taken to this page.

Note: The page above states "You can bookmark this page and return to it to notify Technorati of updates."

Example 2. You make the mistake of signing out from this page.


Example 3. Page refreshes and pings Technorati again within seconds.


Result: You've been banned from pinging Technorati.

Even after Technorati restores your service, some members blog posts remain banned from Technorati's search results.

Technorati needs to fix it so when someone signs out from their ping page, they should be taken to Technorati's front page, or the members account page, instead of repinging. Judging by all the ping complaints in their support forums all these months, Technorati doesn't seem to be interested in fixing this design flaw. I wonder why?

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