Is it just me, or is Technorati just terrible at reminding people what you can do with your blog? Case in point, the Link Count Widget. I might remember it from somewhere, but I've never seen in on people's sites, and I'm not reminded of it when I log into my account.

I subscribe to the Text* Snippents feed, and you'll see good code coming out of there every once in a while. Today, I saw this code for Textpattern. Being the curious sort, I tried to figure out how to do it in WordPress. Turns out, I didn't need to go through all that effort, as Technorati already put in on a page, ready for my copy-and-pasting ways.

And, in all candor, I sorta remember this, from a while ago, but not very well. It's not like this is a new tool, but it's certainly more subtle, complete, and usable than the Get Sphere'd tool. Then again, Sphere is still trying to find its way, while Technorati should have this all worked out.

To put the Link Count Widget on your blog, you copy and paste the code on the Link Count Widget page and put it in your template. Really simple, and then you get to see if someone else is indexed by Technorati linking to your page.

You can see it on this page in the footer at "View blog reactions."

status: published
lastmod: '2006-11-18T21:43:29.000Z'
author: John Stansbury
cms: wordpress
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