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Technorati went down in my estimation after the Technorati Favourites Experiment  and now it appears in Wordpress 2.3 that the big nail went into Technorati, now Wordpress uses Google Blog Search for it’s backlinks rather than Technorati.

Most of us found Technorati through Wordpress, now you just have to rely on Google!

Internal Tags

As part of the Wordpress 2.3 release they also introduced their own tags system, more integrated maybe? But it does mean that your tags only point internally to your blog, so they are a great way to re-index your own content, but less great when it comes to finding out what other people are saying!

Steve Hudson points out that “the whole idea of tags in the first place was to create links to the larger conversation that might be going on in the blogosphere with the connector being those self same tags”, I tend to agree with him, but have found the internal linking useful from the perspective that I may list a post in one category, but give it multiple tags - if that makes sense?

Anyway, Geeky Ramblings have released a plugin that turns your WP2.3 tags back to Technorati tags! You can download it here.

John Eckman has also found that Wordpress 2.3 Tags weren’t being indexed in Tehchnorati, but believes he has a workaround for this - you should check yours!

Dashboard Links

As discussed above, people aren’t so impressed with this new move to Google providing your inbound links (via Blog Search), and Online Tech Tips, and Hack Wordpress have already found a plugin to replace them in your dashboard with the Technorati links again!

If you want a full roundup of the top 10 changes in Wordpress 2.3 I suggest you take a peek at this post “10 things you need to know about Wordpress 2.3“