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Here are some instructions to leverage the benefits of Technorati from your Blog:

1. Go to www.technorati.com and become a member.
2. Update your profile with the correct information and a picture (optional)
3. Once you become a member, claim your blog.
4. You will receive an email from technorati with instructions on updating your blog to include Technorati scripts and links so that it can be watched. The script looks something like:
   

   <script type="text/javascript" src="http://technorati.com/embed/9xyxyabcde.js"></script>

5. Include this script in your weblog. It will result in link to your Technorati profile being displayed in your blog where you put the script. I put this script in my side bar so it looks like the picture shown here. Take a look at my blog's sidebar to see what it looks like.

How to add Technorati Cosmos Link

I couldn't really add much to what Todd Fast and Pat Chanezon have said about this topic. So I will just include those two links here.

1. Todd Fast on How To Add Technorati Cosmos Links
2. Pat C's suggestions adding on to Todd's instructions

But if you want to be lazy I think I have condensed those instructions to the following 2 steps for b.s.c bloggers:

1. Download and upload the cosmos.gif to your blog
2. Edit your _day template and insert the following HTML lines at the end of the #foreach loop (i.e. just before the #end macro)
   

   #set ($permalink = "$absBaseURL$entry.permaLink")
   #set ($encodedpermalink = $utilities.encode($permalink))
   <a href='http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&url=${encodedpermalink}'>
   <img align='top' style='border:0px' alt='Technorati cosmos' src='${absBaseURL}/resources/${userName}/cosmos.gif'/></a>
   

Now isn't that easy?

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